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FCC Approves White Space Usage: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer November 5, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 12.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Google, Alltel, Verizon, United States of America, President Barack Obama, Microsoft, Sprint, Clearwire, Scatter Market, Wimax, Mediabytes, Election, Intel, Shelly Palmer, Fcc, Cnn, Time Warner, Media News, White Space, Media News

Yesterday's election helped CNN.com earn a record traffic day. The political web site enjoyed 27 million uniques for 276 million page views yesterda...

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FCC Approves "Wi-Fi On Steroid:" Good News For Consumers, Bad News For Telcos

Silicon Alley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 12.05.2008 | Business

Read More: White Spaces, Fcc, Wi-Fi, White Space Wi-Fi, Business News

As anticipated, the FCC has voted to approve the use of wireless airwaves between TV channels -- so-called "white spaces" -- for Internet devices. Th...

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Focus On the Family Foresees Unrestricted Porn with Obama Presidency

Theresa Darklady Reed | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

Focus on the Family's "Letter from 2012 in Obama's America," tries to whip up fear by insisting that a future under a president Obama "could" see an end to the world as they wish to know it.

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Media Change We Can Believe In

Rory O'Connor | Posted 12.05.2008 | Media

The Bush Administration's default approach toward journalists has been to use them when necessary and bypass them when not.

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Google, Yahoo Revise Search Deal: MediaBytes With Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer | Posted 12.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Google, Streaming Video, Jerry Yang, Sumner Redstone, Mediabytes, Brightcove, Yahoo, Department of Justice, Shelly Palmer, Fcc, Paramount Pictures, Mtv, Phone, Phillipe Dauman, Eric Schmidt, Transformers, Media News, Viacom, Kevin Martin, Media News

Google and Yahoo will narrow the focus of their search ads deal in order to win approval from the Department of Justice. The revised plans have a tw...

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McCain Helps SNL Score 2nd Best Ratings In A Decade: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer November 3, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 12.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Ads, Fcc, Cms, Saturday Night Live, Digital Transition, Sanyo, Mediabytes, Panasonic, Nikkei, Election, Ad Units, Auditude, Shelly Palmer, Barack Obama, Mtv, Snl, Media News, Tina Fey, Myspace, John McCain, Media News

John McCain's appearance on Saturday Night Live helped the show average a 9.0 household rating/ 20 share in metered markets. Saturday's SNL was only...

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Fox's FCC Fight For The F-Word Heads To Supreme Court

USA Today | Joan Biskupic | Posted 12.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, Fcc, FCC Fuck, Cher Acceptance Speech Fuck, Fox, FCC Supreme Court, Media News

WASHINGTON -- When Cher invoked a four-letter expletive during her acceptance speech at a televised awards show, federal regulators deemed it indecent...

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Current FCC Disputes Show Resilience of Long-Term Special Interests

Art Brodsky | Posted 11.29.2008 | Media

Read More: Broadcasting, Internet, Technology, Fcc, Telephone Companies, Telecom, Media News

Should an industry so dedicated to stopping progress deserve any protections without any accompanying responsibilities? Everything should be on the table for discussion.

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FCC Chair Kevin Martin Named "Porker Of The Month" For $355K NASCAR Sponsorhip

TVWeek | Ira Teinowitz | Posted 11.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Digital TV, Fcc, Kevin Martin, FCC NASCAR, Digital TV NASCAR, Nascar, Porker of the Month, Citizens Against Government Waste, Digital TV Transition, Media News

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is being named "Porker of the Month" by a government watchdog group thanks to the FCC's $355,0...

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The NAB vs. Reality

Timothy Karr | Posted 11.23.2008 | Media

Read More: White Spaces, Fcc, Free Press, Nab, Lobbyists, Internet for Everyone, Television, Media, Media News

One of Washington's most powerful corporate lobbies is at it again, raising a dust cloud of lies in a last-ditch effort to stop new technology that could better the lives of millions.

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Google's G1 Hits Market

Shelly Palmer | Posted 11.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Google, Elite Xc, Android, News Corp, Mediabytes, G1, Research in Motion, Yahoo, Iphone, Kimbo Slice, Apple, Shelly Palmer, Fcc, T Mobile, Steve Jobs, Supreme Court, Media News, Media News

Google's first Android enabled phone, the G1, will go on sale today. Google has also made the code for Android available to developers through an Ap...

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FCC Buys NASCAR Ads To Promote Digital TV

AP | Posted 11.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Nascar, Fcc, Digital TV, Switch to Digital TV, FCC Digital TV, Digital Television, Digital Television Conversion, Media News

LOS ANGELES — Hoping to rev up awareness for the transition to digital TV, the Federal Communications Commission is putting up $350,000 to spons...

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Digital TV Switch Will Be Messy: FCC Official

Reuters | Kim Dixon | Posted 11.15.2008 | Media

Read More: FCC Digital TV, Digital TV, Fcc, Switch to Digital TV, Media News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A pending mandatory switch of all U.S. televisions to digital will be messy, a federal communications official said on Tuesday,...

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One Step Closer To Nationwide Free Wireless Internet

Daniel Sinker | Posted 11.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Iphone, Fcc, Technology, Porn, Free Speech, Mobile Phones, Mobile Devices, Computers, Nationwide Free Wireless, Free Wireless, Digital Devices, Business News

The idea behind it is that the government can use existing spectrum to reach areas under-served by current internet carriers: rural America and underprivileged communities.

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FCC: NFL Network Case Against Comcast Can Go On

New York TImes | Richard Sandomir | Posted 11.13.2008 | Media

Read More: NFL Network Comcast, Fcc, Comcast, NFL Network, Federal Communications Commission, Media News

A Federal Communications Commission ruling Friday night gave the NFL Network hope that it might receive a major influx of Comcast subscribers. In its...

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Broadband Data Act Signed By President Bush

CNet | Stephanie Condon | Posted 11.13.2008 | Media

Read More: Fcc, Broadband Data Act, Federal Communications Commission, Media News

President Bush on Friday signed into law a bill that would facilitate the collection of data regarding broadband access in the United States, though m...

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Obama Vs McCain: OTB Policy Wonks Weigh In On Where The Candidates Stand On Key Issues

Off The Bus | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home

As the Wall Street crisis and recent bombing in Pakistan have made all too clear, there are crucial global, financial and social issues that the next president will be focused to grapple with. This week OffTheBus writers have tossed aside the lipstick and plunged into some of the most pressing issues in the election by analyzing key policy differences between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain.

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Networks Tell FCC: Don't Regulate Product Placements

Variety | William Triplett | Posted 10.25.2008 | Media

Read More: Fcc, Mpaa, FCC Product Placement, Product Placements, Product Placement, Media News

The MPAA, the parent companies of the Big Four nets and other biz heavyweights have told the Federal Communications Commission that there's no need fo...

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Wall Street Debacle Holds Lessons For Net Neutrality

Art Brodsky | Posted 10.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Internet, Media Consolidation, Fcc, Filmmaking, Economy, Net Neutrality, Media News

We're seeing a grim scenario play out now on Wall Street, as firms acted unwisely with no government oversight, and the public ends up losing. We don't want to see it play out online as well.

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Political Ads, Like Toothpaste, Should Be Fact-Checked

Sarah O'Leary | Posted 10.12.2008 | Home

Read More: Political Ads, Fcc, John McCain, Political Advertising, Barack Obama, Political Propaganda, Fec, Home News

For reasons unbeknownst to this marketer of 22 years, the network censors, the FCC and Congressional oversight committees most often turn a blind eye when it comes to a political ad's actual factual content. The decision to air is left to the individual broadcasters, who make tens of millions of dollars each presidential election campaign cycle from advertising revenues.

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McCain Bundler, Booted Over Role In FCC-Fined Telecom, Now Staffs Palin

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 10.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fcc, Michael Glassner, John McCain, FCC Fine, Sarah Palin, Idt, Politics News

When International Discount Telecom, a company known more commonly as IDT, was slapped with a $1.3 million fine by the FCC this July for failing to di...

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FCC Survey: 96% Of TV Stations Ready For Digital Switch

MediaWeek | Katy Bachman | Posted 09.28.2008 | Media

Read More: FCC Digital TV, Digital TV, Fcc, Switch to Digital TV, Media News

The vast majority of active full power TV stations, 96 percent, are ready or will be ready to make the transition to full digital service by the Feb. ...

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Comcast Attitude Exposes Fraud of Internet 'Free Market'

Art Brodsky | Posted 09.25.2008 | Media

Read More: Internet, John McCain, Comcast, Fcc, Net Neutrality, Media News

It didn't take long for Comcast to ruin once again the mythology of the "free market" in broadband.

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FCC To Go On National Tour Explaining Digital Switch

Variety | William Triplett | Posted 09.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Analog Television, Digital TV, Fcc, Analog-to-Digital, Digital Switch, February 17 2009, Federal Communicatios Commission, Media News

Coming soon to a town hall near you: the Federal Communications Commission with a message about how to survive the impending switch to all-digital tel...

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Companies Win, Consumers Lose in McCain's Tech Plan

Art Brodsky | Posted 09.15.2008 | Media

Read More: Internet, John McCain, Fcc, FCC Comcast Hearing, Net Neutrality, Internet Policy, John McCain Internet, Kevin Powell, Kevin Martin, Mccain Net Neutrality, Kevin Martin FCC, Media News

McCain's internet policy is the product of a team of advisors that gives lip service to consumers, but when the rubber meets the road, it's the corporations that get most of the goodies.

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