By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 8-25-20 Cable operators are telling the FCC that retrans regulations should apply to carriage negotiations that include ancillary "broadcast internet" services. That came in comments by NCTA-The Internet & Television Association on the FCC's inquiry into what, if any, rules need to be changed to accommodate broadcaster's potential new [...]
Stuart N. Brotman To Coordinate Program Activities FOR RELEASE: August 25, 2020 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., August 25, 2020 – The Media Institute today unveiled a new program designed to bring clarity to key issues at the heart of today’s digital revolution. The Digital Media Center will examine issues [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 8-21-20 FCC chairman Ajit Pai has told a member of the House that the agency is generally not in the business of dictating what viewers can and can't see. Pai was responding to a letter from Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.), who was concerned about a TV show, La Comay, [...]
New Book by Media Institute Distinguished Fellow Offers Far-Reaching Insights FOR RELEASE: August 21, 2020 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., August 21, 2020 – “There can be no doubt now that digital privacy protection deserves more focus as a national policy priority,” concludes Stuart N. Brotman in his latest book, [...]
By Gary Arlen, Multichannel News, 8-17-20 The 280 megahertz of midband spectrum which is intended for 5G and other advanced services has been fully approved to go to auction starting Tuesday, Dec. 8, under a plan that the Federal Communications Commission adopted on Aug. 6. The controversial auction of the 3.7 to 3.98 GHz [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 8-17-20 Law firm Cooley LLP has broken out the ways that the NTIA petition, if acted on by the FCC, would impose “sweeping changes.” For one, its requirement that websites disclose their moderation policies would subject edge provider content to the FCC’s authority for the first time. It could [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 8-17-20 Section 230 is the surviving section of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, the rest of which was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. It allows social media sites to host third-party speech without being subject to legal action based on the content that is posted or what [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 8-17-20 California’s net neutrality law should be blocked because federal law pre-empts the state statute, the U.S. Justice Department argued in asking a federal judge to overturn a state law reviving many tenets of the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order. The Justice Department said federal statutes pre-empt the net [...]
Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in La Liberte v. Reid. The brief supports the motion of MSNBC journalist Joy Reid for rehearing or rehearing en banc of the Second Circuit’s decision in this case, which reversed [...]
Participated in two amicus briefs (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Uniformed Fire Officers Association v. DeBlasio. The cases stem from the repeal of Section 50-a of the New [...]