Kevin Martin Resigns As FCC Chief, Heads To Aspen Institute
Kevin Martin is to step down as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission to join the Aspen Institute, a non-profit leadership organisation, t...
Kevin Martin is to step down as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission to join the Aspen Institute, a non-profit leadership organisation, t...
Wall Street Journal | Fawn Johnson | Posted 01.15.2009 | Media
WASHINGTON -- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin on Friday evening canceled next week's meeting at which the commission was sched...
Art Brodsky | Posted 09.15.2008 | Media
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.
Jerry Weinstein | Posted 09.06.2008 | Business
Last Friday the FCC bared its teeth. finding that the nation's largest cable company had practiced discriminatory network practices -- throttling file-sharing traffic -- and did so with a lack of disclosure.
Art Brodsky | Posted 08.07.2008 | Media
A new era for the Internet could begin on Aug. 1, when the FCC is expected to decide that Internet users have rights under the communications law.
Jack Myers | Posted 08.06.2008 | Media
Unless the TV industry is permitted to stretch some boundaries in this new media environment, local TV news will quickly follow newspapers into the economic doldrums.
New York Sun | Harold Furchtgott-Roth | Posted 06.26.2008 | Media
Tomorrow marks the 74th anniversary of the Communications Act of 1934, the legal framework for federal regulation of all manner of communications thro...
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 ...
AP | John Dunbar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Despite intense political pressure, the Federal Communications Commission is expected to approve a proposal Tuesday that will allow broadcasters in th...
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...
FT | Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson | Posted 02.16.2009 | Media