FCC Head Voices Support For Other Uses Of Vacant Airwaves

"WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- A day before Google Inc. (GOOG) co-founder Larry Page makes a high-profile appearance in Washington to advocate for access to unused TV airwaves, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said he favors the idea."" "I do think we need...

The $70 Billion Spectrum Rip-Off

The airwaves belong to the People, but the FCC plans to cut us out and give away the new digital spectrum to the same corporations that have been ignoring and violating the public interest provisions in their license in the analog spectrumhttp://www.fcc.gov/contacts.html"On...

Who'll Unplug Big Media? Stay Tuned

by ROBERT W. MCCHESNEY & JOHN NICHOLS–This article appears in the June 16, 2008 edition of The Nation.–"On a Thursday in mid-May, the Senate did something that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. Led by Democrat Byron Dorgan, the senators--Democrats and...

Airwaves, Web Power at Auction

"The auction for rights to a highly valuable swath of the nation’s airwaves will begin Thursday and is expected to include multibillion-dollar bids from the nation’s two biggest wireless phone companies, Verizon and AT&T, as well as Google."

Jay Leno May Have Broken Strike Rules

Well, he may have broken strike rules (though one person breaking the rules might be a bit better than Letterman, whose entire team made a deal with the network that doesn't involve the writers guild) but Leno nailed the late night slot, beating out Letterman's audience by...

Google sets sights on US airwaves

"Google has announced it is in the running for a slice of the US airwaves that would allow it to launch a nationwide wireless internet network. Part of the spectrum, called the C Block, is being sold by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in an auction starting at...

Bill Moyers Journal

Michael Copps is one of 5 FCC commisioners and he is extremely encouraging, considering the state of American Media.  Bill Moyers, for PBS, is the interviewer."BILL MOYERS: You said in a recent speech that-- that America's playing Russian roulette with all of our media....