By Ted Johnson, Deadline Hollywood, 6-15-23 The Senate Judiciary Committee revived the prospects for a long-proposed bill that would bolster print and broadcast news outlets in their negotiations with tech giants. The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 15 in a 14-7 vote. The bill would create a [...]
By Cat Zakrzewski and Cristiano Lima, washingtonpost.com, 6-14-23 European Union lawmakers on June 14 took a key step toward passing landmark restrictions on the use of artificial intelligence, putting Brussels on a collision course with American tech giants funneling billions of dollars into the burgeoning technology. The European Parliament overwhelmingly approved the E.U. AI [...]
FOR RELEASE: May 23, 2023 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-506-8030 Vienna, Va., May 23, 2023 – Media Institute President Richard T. Kaplar issued the following statement in response to President Joe Biden’s announcement that he intends to nominate Anna Gomez as an FCC commissioner and to renominate FCC Commissioners Brendan Carr [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable, 5-22-23 President Joe Biden has nominated Anna Gomez to fill the long-unfilled third Democratic seat on the Federal Communications Commission. Gomez is a veteran communications attorney and policy adviser who has been on the corporate and government sides of policy debates. The nomination comes as a package deal [...]
By John Eggerton, Broadcasting & Cable, 5-22-23 After more than a year of trying to get the deal done, TEGNA said that as of May 22, its merger agreement with Standard General has been terminated and it can collect a $136-million breakup fee. May 22 was the deadline for Standard General’s financing of the [...]
By Robert Barnes and Cat Zakrzewski, washingtonpost.com, 5-18-23 The Supreme Court ruled May 18 that the families of terrorism victims had not proved Google, Twitter, and Facebook helped foster attacks on their loved ones, and handed a greater victory to the tech industry by declining to weigh in on a protective internet law at [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 4-13-23 Democrats on the House Energy & Commerce Committee have a lot of unanswered questions about embattled short-form video site TikTok that they want the company to clear up, but they have also given the social media outlet some input on how it might save itself amid calls for [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 4-11-23 The Biden Administration is looking to potentially regulate artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic processes. On April 11, the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA), the White House’s chief communications policy advisory arm, put out a request for comment on just how that might come about…. Among the government [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 3-16-23 The Federal Communications Commission has proposed extending its audio description mandate to TV stations in all markets by 2035, unanimously approving a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) that would make that the case. The issue is one Chair Jessica Rosenworcel is intimately familiar with from her days [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 3-14-23 The Federal Communications Commission has asked for a budget increase of a little more than 5% for fiscal 2024, given inflation and its goal of getting broadband to 100% of the U.S. in an equitable and inclusive way. In its budget request to Congress, the FCC said its [...]