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PBS Announces Support of FCC’s National Broadband Plan

Despite the fact that a number of commercial broadcasters have some serious reservations about the Federal Communication Commission’s new National Broadband Plan, the main organization for non-commercial broacasters, PBS, has given the plan a ringing endorsement. In a statement PBS…

Sneak Peek at National Broadband Plan: $15.5 Billion to Deploy

The National Broadband plan has been issued to reporters and the Federal Communications Commission has taken its embargo off the material, so a number of media outlets are now writing about it. To read the official six-page summary of the…

A Must-Read Article and Must-See Video: The End of Broadcast

Our good friend Harry Jessell, who runs the editorial at TVNewsCheck and who, for many years was a reporter and then the editor who ran B&C, unearthed an important video the other day that everyone connected with TV should watch,…

Broadcasters Could Face Fee for Not Giving Back Spectrum

Broadcasters who choose not to give back some of their spectrum to the government for broadband use could end up paying a fee, according to a copy of the FCC’s proposed national broadband plan, according to B&C. In the article, B&C’s…

Cable Operators Must Share Their Channels, Appeal Court Says

A three-judge U.S. Court of Appeals panel has upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s rule that cable operators must share channels that they own or partially own with competitors, TheWrap reports. The court’s decision was 2-1 in upholding the FCC’s ruling. Cable operators,…

FCC Makes Tool Available To Consumers So They Can See How Fast Their Internet Connection REALLY Is…

The Federal Communications Commission has a new tool that consumers can use that measures the real speed of Internet connections,Reuters reports. Accroding to the article, "Located at www.broadband.gov, the test is aimed at allowing consumers to compare their actual speeds with…

Moonves Says He’d Pull Signals from Affiliates Who Won’t Share Retrans Fees; Says CBS Could be Making Over $250 Million in Retrans Fees in Two Years

CBS Corp. CEO Leslie Moonves said he’s willing to pull the signal from any affiliate who won’t share a portion of retransmission consent fees, B&C reports. Speaking at the Credit Suisse Global Media & Communications Convergence Conference, Moonves said, “I…

Cable Operators, Satellite Distributors Appeal to FCC and Congress About Retransmission Fee Negotiations and Disputes

A consortium of cable operators and satellite distributors, with Time Warner Cable in the lead, is asking the Federal Communications Commission to intervene in what they say is a broken retransmission consent system, a number of media outlets our reporting. The group has…

Supreme Court Won’t Hear Case About Ban Stemming From a ’60 Minutes’ Interview

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned down an appeal from a death-row inmate to hear a case that would overturn a ban stemming from an interview "60 Minutes" conducted in 2000, the Associated Press reports. It was in March of…