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...FCC'S DECISION TO ALLOW MEDIA COMPANIES TO BUY MORE PROPERTIES HAS COME UNDER FIRE. IS MEDIA CONSOLIDATION GOOD FOR AMERICA? The whole emotional issue of raising ownership levels from 35% to 45% has taken on the proportions of a mountain when it's really a hill. We support having the caps raised, but we're not violently supportive...
...when it's on your phone," says David Chamberlain, research director for Probe Research in Cedar Knolls, N.J. Increasingly, cellular-service providers are offering a limited number of free text messages per month, but additional messages can cost from 10˘ to 25˘ each. According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991--amended in June to include the highly publicized National Do Not Call Registry--covers unsolicited cell-phone traffic, with a $500 fine for abusers. Says the FCC's Dan Rumelt: "Consumers should file complaints with us." In addition, consumer advocates and the FCC...
...away, the most addictive programming on C-SPAN was the FCC hearings. I watched Lewis Dickey, chair of Cumulus Entertainment—a villain in the classical mold, clear blue eyes and smug jaw—say that he did not force his local affiliates to ban the Dixie Chicks, that he called them and told them to do it, but it was something that they would have wanted to do anyway. I, of course, at 1:30 in a pitch black night, dressed in an oversized striped T-shirt and lounging on the couch drinking cranberry juice, heckle...
...Only Just Begun,? read the tagline. It must have been some kind of cosmic joke that one of the ads ran opposite a news story in the Washington Post about the fresh allegations that MCI illegally rerouted its calls. Other probes by congressional committees and the FCC are in the works. Meanwhile a hearing on the firm?s bankruptcy reorganization plan has been postponed until early September...
...owning both a newspaper and a TV station in the same market--on a party-line vote in June. But groups as disparate as the National Organization for Women and the National Rifle Association are decrying the move. In a new Pew Research poll, respondents most familiar with the FCC's action opposed it by roughly 10 to 1. Still, it has the support of key G.O.P. leaders, and President Bush has threatened to veto any bill overturning it. Republicans who are breaking ranks on the issue face growing party pressure. On the morning of the vote, Congressman Zach Wamp...