MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
*Copps Names New Advisor On Media Issues Journalist Joshua Cinelli Replaces Jamila Bess Johnson John Eggerton -- 11/16/2009 12:40:00 PM FCC commissioner Michael Copps has hired journalist Joshua...
blatherWatch (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
“As for government and the FCC, we’ve been asleep at the switch when we weren’t being downright destructive. Twenty-plus years of heedless deregulation eviscerated almost every public interest guideline we had. Media companies took advantage of that. Don’t blame them. Blame us.” That’s the FCC’s Michael Copps, long a minority voice in the wilderness on the deregulatin’, consolidatin’,...
MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
... lots more spectrum to get more efficiencies out of the spectrum they already have. Commissioner Michael Copps also praised the decision. He pointed out that he has in the past opposed what he saw as FCC efforts to usurp state and local authority, citing specifically his opposition to the 2006 decision to speed cable franchising decisions--which included its own shot clock. But in...
INSIDE MUSIC MEDIA™ (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
... that he’s burning his former clients on the way to Citadel's bankruptcy. FCC Commissioner Michael Copps is sounding like he wants to return to the days of yesteryear and get tougher with license holders and of course, the big x factor, bankruptcy , is coming to a consolidator near you within months. This begs the question, what is Fagreed going to do next? Here is my view of...
INSIDE MUSIC MEDIA™ (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
... to direct repeater programming onto local stations. (Someone please, contact FCC Commissioner Michael Copps who is aiming to tighten what it takes to hold an FCC license. So much for getting the FCC off our backs if it results in this mess called consolidated radio). 2. Live and local morning shows will be a thing of the past on most Citadel stations. In their place, Repeater Radio...
Radio Facts (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
... Broadcasting Corporation (collectively, the “CEOs”), met in separate meetings with Commissioner Michael Copps, Jamila Bess Johnson and Lisa Fowlkes; Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker, Brad Gillen and Millie Kerr; Commissioner Mignon Clyburn and Rick Kaplan; and Commissioner Robert McDowell and Rosemary Harold.During the meetings, the CEOs explained how including FM receivers in...
The Snooper Report (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
... broke the story of how United Church of Christ officials met with kindred spirit/FCC Commissioner Michael Copps earlier this month before launching a nationwide campaign to pressure the FCC to crack down on cable TV and talk radio figures. [...] Yeah. Socialized everything is the way to go. NOT! Maybe the Obama's bootlicking NEA chairman is the key? Must be one of those Obama White...
Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
... broke the story of how United Church of Christ officials met with kindred spirit/FCC Commissioner Michael Copps earlier this month before launching a nationwide campaign to pressure the FCC to crack down on cable TV and talk radio figures. The motto of the “So We Might See” anti-”hate speech” campaign is: “Without media justice, there will be no social justice!” The same Marx-loving...
MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
... Graduate School of Journalism study's call for a similar reassessment of of the media marketplace. Michael Copps, as acting chairman, teed up an inquiry into the state of journalism that has yet to be launched. Waldman will join the commission as a senior advisor to the chairman and a member of the Office of Strategic Planning. According to the FCC, his charter is to "work with the...
Open Left (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
... innovators, political leaders and the public. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and Commissioners Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn voted in favor of the rulemaking; Commissioners Meredith Attwell Baker and Robert McDowell gave partial support to the proposal. The proposed rules would codify the four open Internet principles that now guide the FCC's oversight and enforcement of communications...
