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01/31/2024
Congress Hears the Pros and Cons of Streaming Sports
The House Communications Subcommittee hosted a hearing Wednesday aimed at breaking down exactly where the sports marketplace is going and the pros and cons of the shift of more games to streaming platforms.
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10/11/2023
FCC Chair Floats Proposal for Rebates During Blackouts
After staying mum during some of the biggest blackouts in TV history, the FCC is breaking its silence with Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel putting forth a proposal that seeks comment on whether and how to require cable and satellite providers to issue rebates to subscribers in the event of a blackout due to failure to reach a retransmission consent agreement.
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08/03/2021
Maine PEG Channel Law Maintained
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected NCTA’s attempt to overturn a Maine law requiring cable operators to place PEG channels in their basic cable tier and on lower channels in the vicinity of broadcast stations.
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05/17/2021
Regulatory Landscape for Discovery-WM
Sen Dick Blumenthal (D-CT) and groups like the Parents Television and Media Council are already calling for close scrutiny of a Discovery-WarnerMedia combo.
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07/08/2020
Mozilla and Friends Drop Net Neutrality Battle
Mozilla and a number of others that challenged the FCC’s 2017 Restoring Internet Freedom Order are not taking their battle to the US Supreme Court.
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08/21/2018
Petitioners File Briefs on FCC Broadband Reclassification
Monday was the deadline for non-government petitioners to file briefs in a challenge to the FCC’s reclassification of broadband as an “information service.”