The Federal Communications Commission began to lay the groundwork for a bigger federal role in the broadband business Wednesday, outlining the hurdles...
WSJ | Posted 10.14.2009 | Technology
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is proposing that the agency apply tougher open-Internet rules broadly, raising concerns...
WSJ | Posted 10.06.2009 | Technology
We're not sure just where Bruce Springsteen stands on open Internet policies, said Federal Communications Commission Julius Genachowski Monday at a mu...
Julius Genachowski | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology
The key to the Internet's success has been its openness...Notwithstanding its unparalleled record of success, today the free and open Internet faces emerging and substantial challenges.
AP | Posted 07.27.2009 | Media
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed Julius Genachowski as head of the Federal Communications Commission and Robert McDowell for a seco...
Art Brodsky | Posted 05.29.2009 | Media
The Obama Internet and tech agenda came roaring out of the transition under a full head of steam. Now it's more or less creeping along, bogged down largely by circumstances beyond its control.
AP | Posted 04.03.2009 | Media
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Tuesday named Julius Genachowski, a friend from Harvard Law School, as his nominee to chair the Federal C...
Rich Bengloff | Posted 02.15.2009 | Entertainment
Just like the free exchange of ideas, freedom in the arts requires equal access for players of all sizes. When it's up to fans, demand for independent music increases dramatically.
Art Brodsky | Posted 01.18.2009 | Media
I said to myself, "Self, I have all of the qualifications that I drew up for someone should have to be the FCC Chairman." And so I thought, "Why not me?" That is how I came to mention the possibility.
AP | JOHN DUNBAR | Posted 06.24.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission says he is satisfied the $3.8 billion merger of the nation's only two satelli...
AP | JOHN DUNBAR | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is disputing Democratic assertions that a new rule loosening restrictions on media ow...
AP | John Dunbar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The Federal Communications Commission, overturning a 32-year-old ban, voted Tuesday to allow broadcasters in the nation's 20 largest media markets to ...
Stephen Lendman | ZNet | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
On October 17, FCC chairman Kevin Martin proposed lifting the 1975 media cross-ownership rule that forbids a company from owning a newspaper and telev...
Los Angeles Times | Jim Puzzanghera | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Facing growing criticism of his agenda and tactics, a defiant Kevin J. Martin, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, refused senators' re...
Los Angeles Times | Jim Puzzanghera | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Critics usually blame Martin, a soft-spoken Republican known as a political tactician who has accomplished the rare feat of being criticized by all fo...
AP/Los Angeles Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The nation's top communications regulator Wednesday denied that his proposed media ownership rule has a major loophole that would allow newspapers and...
Los Angeles Times | Jim Puzzanghera | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Two key House lawmakers announced Monday that they were investigating the Federal Communications Commission, accusing its chairman of "possible abuse ...
Financial Times | Stephanie Kirchgaessner | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill are seeking to rein in Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission who is seeking to expa...
New York Times | Kevin Martin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
In many towns and cities, the newspaper is an endangered species. At least 300 daily papers have stopped publishing over the past 30 years. Those news...
wsj.com | AMY SCHATZ | Posted 11.19.2009 | Technology