Policy

NCTA: Reject Broad DTV Carriage Mandates

Washington  -- Television stations are entitled to mandatory carriage of a single programming service — and not before they’ve surrender

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By: Ted Hearn | Feb 7 2005 - 2:20pm

FCC Staff Stiffs Cable on Deregulation

NCTA’s Four-Year Quest to Put Burden on Localities Could be Jeopardized

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By: By Ted Hearn | Feb 7 2005 (All day)

SBC-AT&T Merger Bugs Cable

MSOs Plan to Speak Out Against Deal, Stance Against Local Video Franchising

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By: By Ted Hearn | Feb 7 2005 (All day)

Cash-for-Retrans Push Heats Up

Cable operators and broadcasters alike continue revving up for looming retransmission-consent negotiations, while last week Cox Communication

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By: By Linda Moss & Mike Reynolds | Feb 7 2005 (All day)

Cable Might NAB a Win

Washington— Barring a major script change, the Federal Communications Commission is about to hand t

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By: By Ted Hearn | Feb 7 2005 (All day)

Through the Wire

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By: By Kent Gibbons | Feb 7 2005 (All day)

Cable to Rail Against SBC-AT&T

Washington -- Cable won’t hold its tongue over SBC’s $16 billion plan to buy AT&T. Immediately after the deal was announced, NCTA pre

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By: Ted Hearn | Feb 4 2005 - 2:25pm

FCC: Cable Rates Up 5.4% In 2003

Washington — Cable rates rose 5.4% in 2003, a slower rate of increase from the previous year, the Federal Communications Commission said Fr

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By: Ted Hearn | Feb 4 2005 - 1:26pm

PBS DTV Deal OK’d

The boards of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, the Association of Public Television Stations, and the Public Broadcas

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By: Ted Hearn | Feb 4 2005 - 1:00pm

Lombardo: Powell Rushing Multicast Vote

Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell is rushing a vote on a policy that would ban digital-TV stations from demanding car

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By: By Ted Hearn | Feb 3 2005 - 2:18pm