Someone isn’t too anxious for the House-Senate conference committees that are hammering out the final details of the health-care reform package to be televised.
C-SPAN released a letter Tuesday that it had sent top legislative leaders late last month, offering to televise the negotiations. It was not so favorably received by Democratic leaders.
They're going after a Fox 'toon again.
Having already complained about an episode of “Family Guy,” in which a stripper gives a lap dance to a male character, the Parents Television Council now is urging its members to complain to the Federal Communications Commission about last Sunday’s “American Dad.”
The episode featured a character with an injured arm, telling another he is going to have to help take care of their race horse.
The first step has been taken in the Obama administration's antitrust review of Comcast's $30 billion bid to buy NBC Universal.
It has been decided that the Justice Department -- rather than the Federal Trade Commission -- will review the deal, department spokeswoman Gina Talamona told TheWrap on Wednesday.
The decision means the government’s formal antitrust review -- which could take a year or longer -- is now formally starting.
It also indicated a major shift in policy.
The Writers Guild, both East and West, Consumer’s Union, Common Cause and even the National Organization for Women on Thursday are among those who are banding together to oppose the $30 billion Comcast-NBC Universal deal.
In an open letter sent Thursday to the White House and to members of the Senate and House committees which will review the deal, the groups claim that the merger “will have a devastating effect on the media marketplace.”
President Obama's goal of ensuring net neutrality hit a speed bump on Friday.
Hearing an appeal by Comcast of a Federal Communications Commission ruling that the cable company acted illegally to degrade or partially block BitTorrent video downloads as part of network maintenance, three skeptical appellate court judges repeatedly questioned whether the FCC had authority to regulate the internet.
(Also read: "MPAA Tries to Mend Fences With Studios After Net Neutrality Blow-Up.")
The Federal Communications Commission's attempt to add net neutrality rules for the web is quickly erupting into a major battleground.
Jeff Zucker and Brian Roberts will be front-and-center before Congress on Feb. 4 as the Senate Judiciary Committee's anti-trust panel begins to examine Comcast's $30 billion purchase of NBC Universal.
Now it’s the Federal Communications Commission’s turn to examine the future of journalism and the media industry.
Two months after the Federal Trade Commission launched a study, the FCC is following suit.
The FCC is taking its hardest look at the broadcasting side, but it also asked questions about staffing at newspapers and magazines.
Comcast and NBC Universal filed a formal Hart-Scott-Rodino notice of their $30 billion deal with the Justice Department Monday -- which starts the time clock on the Justice Department’s review of the deal.
Under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, companies making large deals have to notify government regulators when an accord is reached. They then must delay moving forward on completing the deal for at least 30 days -- giving the government time to ask questions and review the deal’s impact.
