By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 2-16-17 Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who chairs the Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force, has released what the task force billed as an Innovation Agenda for the new Congress and it backs a free an open internet: Free of burdensome government regs and open for business. In the section [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 2-16-17 Ajit Pai gave his first TV interview as chairman of the FCC to Fox Business Network and said he would investigate indecency complaints against CBS, NBC or anyone else if they were presented to him. Pai appeared Thursday on the 2 p.m. hour of The Intelligence Report [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 2-9-17 To establish a baseline for a promised flood of network neutrality comments to the FCC, as of Thursday, the proceeding was listed as the third most active proceeding in terms of comments with 178 comments in the past 30 days. Universal Service Fund comments and Lifeline subsidy [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 2-8-17 FCC chairman Ajit Pai says the Enforcement Bureau will no longer get to sign off on consent decrees settling proposed forfeitures without the commissioners voting on them. That was the latest in a series of process reforms the new chairman is implementing in his first few weeks [...]
FOR RELEASE: January 24, 2017 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., Jan. 24, 2017 – Media Institute President Patrick Maines today issued the following statement congratulating FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai on being appointed Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission: “The Media Institute offers its heartiest congratulations to Ajit Pai, who is [...]
FOR RELEASE: December 7, 2016 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Washington, Dec. 7, 2016 – David Grimaldi of the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Adonis Hoffman of Business in the Public Interest were elected to the Board of Trustees of The Media Institute at the board’s annual meeting today in Washington. Mike Regan, [...]
FOR RELEASE: October 17, 2016 Contact: Patrick Maines The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., October 17, 2016 – Free Speech Week (FSW) is slated to begin Monday, Oct. 17, and run through Sunday, Oct. 23. A wide range of schools, universities, community groups, and media organizations will mark the week by conducting events celebrating [...]
By Victor Davis Hanson, National Review Online, 8-15-16 After nearly eight years of aiding and abetting Obama, leftists now fear the possible constitutional overreach of our next president. Peter Beinart writes angrily in The Atlantic of the supposed Trump intellectuals, apparently on the premise of not whether one has endorsed formally the Trump candidacy, but [...]
By Brad Smith, President and Chief Legal Officer, Microsoft, 7-14-16 Today the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in a case brought by Microsoft addressing the global application of U.S. search warrants for people’s email. The court ruled in favor of Microsoft overturning an earlier ruling from a lower court. We [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 7-12-16 An FCC source confirms the FCC's Dmeocratic majority has voted to approve the FCC's quadrennial media ownership review notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) had said at an FCC oversight hearing Tuesday (July 12) that he had been told that [...]