Twenty-eight House members, including a good odd bedfellows assortment of legislators including Ron Paul, have sent a letter to the FCC pushing for more low-power FM stations. The FCC is now implementing the Local Community Radio Act, passed last December, after almost a decade of back-and-forth over how to promote low-power local radio stations. As [...]
The Hill highlights a speech by the FCC’s Michael Copps on ‘media injustice’ on mobile Web, meaning ” that minority customers who are accessing media through their smartphones at higher rates than the general population are largely subject to non-diverse sources of information.” He emphasized that the advertising models around hyperlocal sites bias production towards [...]
Ars Technica highlights this story on how Comcast, having taken over NBC, has exiled a cable rival of its CNBC business channel to the siberia section of its cable listings: Bloomberg argues that Comcast, the nation’s largest cable operator, has exiled its financial news television network to cable-dial Siberia, far away from the “existing news [...]
The Media Access Project, which is challenging a 2007 FCC regulatory decision that weakened the rules restricting local media monopolies, was unsure whether the Third Circuit of the Court of Appeals will overturn that FCC decision after oral arguments. “It is pretty hard to figure out what is going to happen here,” said [MAP's Andrew] [...]
