By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 3-20-17 In a response to Senate Democrats that was short on elaboration, Republican FCC chairman Ajit Pai said he did not believe the media was the enemy of the people and promised to exercise his media regulatory authority impartially. “As Chairman of the FCC, I take my oath [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 3-17-17 To be or not to be defined as an MVPD, that is the question. A federal appeals court Friday heard argument in the long-running court battle between TV station content providers and FilmOn X, and, according to an attorney at the lively and lengthy oral argument, bothsides [...]
FOR RELEASE: March 13, 2017 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., March 13, 2017 – The Media Institute today expressed its strong support for Sunshine Week, the annual nationwide celebration of access to public information, observed this year from March 12 to March 18. The Media Institute is an official Sunshine [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 3-9-17 Michael Powell, president of NCTA: The Internet & Television Association, says that while churn is inevitable, doom and gloom scenarios are not. "As long as Internet is the foundation of all of the opportunities and choices, that still provides a pretty powerful place for cable in the [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 3-9-17 Republicans are going after the FCC's broadband privacy rules with both barrels. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), chair of the House Communications Subcommittee, has introduced her version of a Congressional Review Act resolution invalidating the FCC's Oct. 27 order. That follows a similar CRA resolution introduced this week by [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 3-6-17 President Donald Trump met with FCC chairman Ajit Pai Monday afternoon in the Oval Office, according to the White House. The meeting was confirmed afterwards by an FCC spokesperson. “Chairman Pai had a warm meeting with President Trump this afternoon, in which they reconnected for the first [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 3-6-17 The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) along with the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the ACLU and more than 70 others accused President Donald Trump and his administration of trying to "undermine democracy" by marginalizing the media as an [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 2-28-17 Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) took aim at President Donald Trump's attacks on the mainstream media Tuesday, signaling they were part of an assault on the media from without and within that threatened "the survival of journalism as a critical pillar of Democracy." He branded the President's attacks [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable Online, 2-28-17 FCC chairman Ajit Pai told a Mobile World Congress audience in Barcelona Tuesday that Title II reclassification was a mistake made under the previous generation that he expects to be corrected in this one. He signaled to the international audience that the FCC would not be a [...]
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 [...]