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...site is different from the hundreds of AM and FM stations that now simultaneously stream their programming onto the Web. Schulz and Wirkus describe their show as "a thumbing of the nose at anyone who smells of authority." Like all Net radio, they don't answer to the FCC, and they toss the F word liberally in segments like "Penis Talk" and "This isn't phone sex, you dumb...
...course, the problem has precisely to do with "down the road"--two or three mergers down the road. Never mind that AOL's Case had been agitating for an FCC rule mandating nondiscriminatory access to Internet service providers (known as open access). Now that AOL has bought its own access, he seems to be saying that no governmental regulatory intervention is necessary. Good old AOL Time Warner will provide open access voluntarily...
...request for specific action, though defenders say the Senator was acting in accordance with his long-standing belief that federal agencies should not interfere in the free market. "What's wrong is when someone does something he doesn't believe in because of a donation," says Reed Hundt, former FCC chairman. "That is not John McCain...
...other broadcasters. In a little-noticed move last June, McCain tried to attach to a telecommunications bill a provision that would have made it easier for broadcast groups to own more than one TV station in a market. McCain's measure was dropped when Democrats objected. In August the FCC moved to allow many of the changes McCain wanted. One result: Paxson's stock price jumped more than 30% as it became more attractive to other large broadcasters. McCain said last week that his job as Commerce Committee chairman "is to make the bureaucrats work for the people." But when...
...entered into a computer; when they are removed from the safe, they are accompanied by nine security guards. Contestants at all shows are monitored by network standards-and-practice executives; the contestants are even followed to the bathroom. Everyone at Millionaire, including the electricians, had to sign two FCC forms, and the writers, who sit in a shredder-filled room with a combination lock that is regularly changed, signed nondisclosure agreements of a sort rarely seen outside secrecy-happy Silicon Valley. The writers have their own kitchen and bathroom and, at first, were told they would have to clean them...