James H. Quello, who served on the Federal Communications Commission for 23 years as a commissioner and also interim chairman, died Sunday in Alexandria, Va., B&C reports. He was 95. While on the commission, he was known as a defender…
The FCC has agreed to a request by advertisers to extend the deadline to comment on its inquiry into kids TV content-control strategies in a digital world, B&C reports. The American Association of Advertising Agencies, the American Advertising Federation, the…
In a confidential report it is using as it meets with legislators and regulators about its acquisition of a controlling stake in NBC Universal, Comcast pledges that it “does not and will not foreclose consumer access to any online Internet…
The FCC defended its decision to stay a plan to partially lift the newspaper-broadcast crossownership ban because new commissioners are likely to come up with new rules, B&C reports. The FCC also says court challenges to lifting the ban should…
The Parents Television Council has taken exception to behavior depicted on Sunday’s episode of Fox’s animated series "American Dad," reports Mediaweek. The episode feature a sequence depicting a character seeming to sexually pleasure a racehorse before a race, the PTC said. “A broadcast…
Tennis Channel filed a program carriage rule complaint with the Federal Communications Commission against Comcast, alleging that the cable operator is violating a rule that prohibits cable companies from favoring networks they own over unaffiliated cable services, Multichannel News reports….
The Third Circuit court of appeals set a new date to re-hear arguments over the indecency fine the FCC leveled against CBS-owned stations for Janet Jackson’s breast-flashing Super Bowl performance of 2004, B&C reports. Oral arguments will take place Feb….