An unusual alliance of Hollywood producers and creative workers is mobilizing here for a stiff fight against company efforts to relax long-standing limits on media ownership. The coalition combines directors, writers, actors and producers -- groups more often known for strife than unity. But the new push by frequently divided siblings is grounded in a shared fear that any move by the Federal Communications Commission to allow further consolidation in the TV business would kill jobs and stifle creativity.
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is dropping a requirement that the provider of a proposed free Internet network block adult content from the service.
As federal judges consider pivotal cases about what constitutes offensive TV and radio broadcasts, an expletive might best describe the state of the federal government's enforcement of indecency rules.
Federal regulators Friday announced an unprecedented settlement with four radio broadcast companies on charges of accepting cash and merchandise from record companies in exchange for airplay.
More than 2 million viewers in Southern California won't have access to the super-sharp images and CD-quality sound of digital television as a result of a channel allocation plan announced by federal regulators this week.
The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday launched formal investigations into pay-for-play practices at four of the nation's largest radio corporations, the biggest federal inquiry into radio bribery since the congressional payola hearings of 1960.
In a blow to the potential advertising revenues of TV broadcasters, federal regulators Thursday shot down the industry's request to require cable systems to carry its programming on multiple channels.
