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Britney Scores Big For MTV: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer December 2, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 12.02.2008 | Media

Read More: Time Warner Cable, Verizon, Fios, Mediabytes, Arianna Huffington, Recession, Shelly Palmer, Mtv, Fcc, For the Record, Britney Spears, Huffpo, Time Warner, Nad, Media News, Huffington Post, Kevin Martin, Wi-Fi, Media News
Shelly Palmer

Britney Spears documentary "Britney: For the Record" drew big ratings for MTV. The tell-all doc took in more than 3.7 million viewers in its debut, ...

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FCC Chair To Push For Free, Porn-Free National Internet

Silicon Alley Insider | Nicholas Carlson | Posted 12.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Kevin Martin, FCC Free Internet, Fcc, Free Internet Access, Media News

During the FCC's December meeting, chair Kevin Martin plans to push for a free, but porn-free Internet service that would be available to all American...

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Google, Yahoo Revise Search Deal: MediaBytes With Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer | Posted 11.04.2008 | 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
Shelly Palmer

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

TVWeek | Ira Teinowitz | Posted 10.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Digital TV, Fcc, Kevin Martin, FCC NASCAR, Digital TV NASCAR, Nascar, Porker of the Month, 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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Companies Win, Consumers Lose in McCain's Tech Plan

Art Brodsky | Posted 08.15.2008 | 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
Art Brodsky

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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Comcast Unleashes the Lapdogs

Craig Aaron | Posted 07.30.2008 | Media

Read More: Kevin Martin, Fcc, Comcast, Wall Street Journal, Net Neutrality, Media News
Craig Aaron

It's the 11th hour for Comcast at the FCC. They were caught secretly blocking legal Internet traffic and lied about it. On Friday, they are expected to finally be held accountable.

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Adelstein and Copps: Voices at the FCC for a Free and Open Internet

Timothy Karr | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media

Read More: SavetheInternet.Com, Kevin Martin, Internet Policy, Free Press, Comcast, Fcc, Net Neutrality, Matt Stoller, Media News
Timothy Karr

It's unusual for federal bureaucrats to achieve rock star status, but two commissioners at the FCC have amassed an enthusiastic fan base among the emerging "Open Internet" movement.

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Sirius-XM Merger Close To Approval After Companies Agree To $20M Fine

AP | JOHN DUNBAR | Posted 07.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Deborah Taylor Tate, Fcc, Kevin Martin, Sirius Radio, Sirius XM Merger, XM Satellite, Media News

WASHINGTON — Approval of a merger of the nation's only two satellite radio companies was imminent Thursday after the pair agreed to pay $19.7 mi...

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Sirius-XM Merger Hangs In The Balance As FCC Split Down Party Lines

AP | JOHN DUNBAR | Posted 07.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Sirius Radio, Sirius XM Merger, XM Satellite, Fcc, Deborah Taylor Tate, Kevin Martin, Media News

WASHINGTON — The proposed merger of the Sirius and XM satellite radio companies appeared close to final approval Wednesday, with the sole undeci...

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Internet Users Stop Comcast, Net Neutrality Win on the Horizon

Timothy Karr | Posted 07.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Internet, Fcc, Comcast, Cable, Kevin Martin, SavetheInternet.Com, Net Neutrality, Media News
Timothy Karr

Against every ounce of conventional wisdom in Washington, everyday citizens and consumer advocates have taken on a major corporation and won a major victory.

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FCC Suddenly Relevant As It Approaches 74th Birthday

New York Sun | Harold Furchtgott-Roth | Posted 06.18.2008 | Media

Read More: Kevin Martin, Fcc, Kevin Martin FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Media News

Tomorrow marks the 74th anniversary of the Communications Act of 1934, the legal framework for federal regulation of all manner of communications thro...

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Are You Sirius?

Charles Warner | Posted 06.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Kevin Martin, Fcc, Sirius, Xm, Mel Karmazin, Satellite Radio, Satellite Radio Merger, Radio, Media News
Charles Warner

Sirius and XM are so desperate to merge, that they will do anything, no matter how contrary it is to their long-term best interests.

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Kevin Martin Has His Head In The Broadband Cloud

Shelly Palmer | Posted 06.02.2008 | Media

Read More: Broadband, Fcc, FCC Chairman, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Kevin Martin, Kevin Martin FCC, Public Airwaves, Media News
Shelly Palmer

This week, FCC Commissioner Kevin Martin put some new spectrum up for auction. But there's a catch.

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Senate Votes to Reverse FCC Decision Allowing Media Consolidation

Josh Silver | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Kevin Martin, Media, Fcc, Media Consolidation, Media News
Josh Silver

The Senate's vote reflects growing awareness -- in Congress and with average Americans -- of the perils of concentrated media ownership.

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What Is America To Me

Norman Horowitz | Posted 04.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Kevin Martin, NY Yimes, Sedition, Home News
Norman Horowitz

The howdy and the handshake The air a feeling free And the right to speak your mind out That's America to me "The House I Live In" It was about s...

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FCC Chief: No Need To Make Internet Regulations More Clear, Open

AP | JOHN DUNBAR | Posted 04.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Kevin Martin, Fcc, FCC Net Neutrality, Net Neutrality, Media News

WASHINGTON — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said Tuesday his agency has all the authority it needs to prevent Internet ...

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Comcast: Worst. Company. Ever.

Craig Aaron | Posted 04.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Kevin Martin, Fcc, Mona Shaw, Comcast, Bittorrent, Free Press, Net Neutrality, Business News
Craig Aaron

I'll admit that we can't (yet) connect Comcast to child labor, environmental destruction or Dick Cheney. But I'm not alone in my seething rage for the nation's largest cable company.

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Sirius-XM Merger Gets Federal Approval

AP | JOHN DUNBAR | Posted 03.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Fcc, FCC Sirius XM Merger, Kevin Martin, Sirius, Sirius Radio, Sirius XM Merger, Xm, XM Radio, XM Satellite, Justice Department, Justice Department Sirius XM, Media News

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Monday approved Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.'s proposed $5 billion buyout of rival XM Satellite Radio Hold...

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Handicapping The Race To Replace Kevin Martin As FCC Chair

The Hollywood Reporter | Brooks Boliek | Posted 03.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Kevin Martin, FCC Chair, Fcc, Next FCC Chair, Media News

WASHINGTON -- The spoils system might not be what it was when Sen. William Marcy, D-N.Y., inadvertently gave it its name in his 1832 "To the victor go...

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FCC Nearing Decision On Sirius-XM Merger

Wall Street Journal | Sarah McBride and Amy Schatz | Posted 03.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Kevin Martin, XM Satellite, FCC Sirius XM Merger, Fcc, Sirius, Xm, Sirius XM Merger, XM Radio, Sirius Radio, Media News

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin asked his staff to draft documents on the planned merger of Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and XM...

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Oxygen Founder Gerry Laybourne: Kevin Martin "Would Like To Go Back To The 1950s"

Portfolio.com | Lloyd Grove | Posted 01.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Kevin Martin, Lloyd Grove, Geraldine Laybourne, Media News

For the first time in her life, Geraldine Laybourne is unemployed. Last month, she left Oxygen Media, the women-centric cable television and internet ...

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FCC Approves $19M Clear Channel Buyout

AP | Posted 01.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Kevin Martin, Bain Capital Partners, Fcc, Mitt Romney Clear Channel, Thomas H. Lee Partners, Clear Channel, Media News

The Federal Communications Commission has signed off on the $19.5 billion deal that will take the nation's largest radio broadcaster private, an agenc...

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Actually, I Support Yesterday's FCC's Cross-Ownership Decision

Russell Shaw | Posted 12.19.2007 | Media

Read More: Kevin Martin, Media, Media Consolidation, Fcc, FCC Media Consolidation, Kevin Martin FCC, Media News
Russell Shaw

In most metro areas -- especially the 20 largest metro areas where the relaxed restrictions would apply -- we have lots of diverse voices.

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Is the Internet Next On the FCC Media Consolidation Agenda?

Art Brodsky | Posted 12.19.2007 | Media

Read More: Kevin Martin, Internet, Fcc, FCC Media Consolidation, Net Neutrality, Kevin Martin FCC, Media News
Art Brodsky

The last thing this country needs after the FCC allows the traditional media to consolidate is for the to let the telephone and cable companies exercise proprietary control over the Internet.

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Kevin Martin: My New Hero

Lauren Rich Fine | Posted 12.18.2007 | Media

Read More: Cross Ownership, Fcc, Newspapers, News Corp, Dow Jones, FCC Media Consolidation, FCC Chairman, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Kevin Martin, Kevin Martin FCC, Media News
Lauren Rich Fine

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.

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