FCC Chief Approves Sirius, XM Radio Merger
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission says he is satisfied the $3.8 billion merger of the nation's only two satelli...
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission says he is satisfied the $3.8 billion merger of the nation's only two satelli...
Shelly Palmer | Posted 06.02.2008 | Media
This week, FCC Commissioner Kevin Martin put some new spectrum up for auction. But there's a catch.
AP | JOHN DUNBAR | Posted 12.25.2007 | Media
The Republican chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is disputing Democratic assertions that a new rule loosening restrictions on media ow...
Lauren Rich Fine | Posted 12.18.2007 | Media
The proposed changes were so diluted relative to an outright repeal of the ban on cross ownership that it was hard for me to imagine that anyone thought it would materially or even modestly change the landscape.
AP | John Dunbar | Posted 12.18.2007 | 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 ...
Josh Silver | Posted 12.18.2007 | Media
Witness yet another shining moment: the Bush administration serving up a wholesale giveaway to the largest media corporations in the most corrupt process imaginable.
Stephen Lendman | ZNet | Posted 12.14.2007 | 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 12.14.2007 | 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 12.10.2007 | 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 12.06.2007 | 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 12.04.2007 | 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 11.20.2007 | 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...
Eric Deggans | Posted 11.14.2007 | Media
Now it seems obvious how Martin was going to try slipping more media consolidation past a public steadfastly opposed to it.
Josh Silver | Posted 11.13.2007 | Media
The problem is that the few minority-owned stations directly in the cross-hairs of consolidation.
New York Times | Kevin Martin | Posted 11.13.2007 | 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...
Marty Kaplan | Posted 11.13.2007 | Media
The FCC Chairman has taken to the op-ed page of the New York Times to propose that big-city papers should now be permitted to purchase a television or radio station in their market.
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AP | JOHN DUNBAR | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business