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1 week ago |
policyband.com | Ted Hearn
Must Carry: Forcing cable operators to carry some TV stations – a law twice upheld by the Supreme Court – is so hopeless outdated in the Internet age that it couldn’t possibly survive a court battle today, NCTA – The Internet & Television Association said April 10 in the FCC’s “Delete, Delete, Delete” docket.
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1 week ago |
policyband.com | Ted Hearn
Delete: The FCC needs to take ongoing broadcast regulation off autopilot and quickly deregulate TV and radio station owners facing mounting pressure from Big Tech – whether it’s YouTube TV, Amazon Prime Video, or Sirius XM. That was the message sent to the FCC on Friday by the National Association of Broadcasters in yet another strongly worded appeal that a status quote replete with “tedious” and “oppressive” regulations was unsustainable.
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1 week ago |
policyband.com | Ted Hearn
Video: Cable and satellite TV operators have wanted FCC action in this arena for a long time, decades probably. Now, with FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s “Delete, Delete, Delete” docket a real thing and supercharged by a Trump White House with a robust deregulatory bent, pay-TV’s time could be right now. The issue? Retransmission consent. Yesterday, EchoStar Corp.
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2 weeks ago |
policyband.com | Ted Hearn
Roth: The Senate Commerce Committee voted yesterday to approve Arielle Roth as NTIA Administrator. If she’s confirmed by the full Senate – an outcome that’s probably just a few weeks away – Roth will have a big role in carrying out Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s plan to overhaul the $42.45 billion BEAD program. The vote was 16-12, with every committee Democrat opposing Roth except for Sen.
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2 weeks ago |
policyband.com | Ted Hearn
LEO: Project Kuiper – Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink – is set to blast off this evening from a Florida launch pad. It will take some time – but not that much – before the Starlink-Project Kuiper global Internet battle will heat up because Project Kuiper requires several hundred operational satellites in the sky before it can launch a competitive service.
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