Todd Shields
Cross-Ownership Heats Up
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WASHINGTON Relaxing federal rules on cross-ownership of daily newspapers and nearby broadcast media would leave public debate vulnerable to domination by few voices in communities in 12 states, anti-consolidation groups [...]
Feds to Study Kids’ Obesity
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NEW YORK Federal regulators said they would study the link between media and advertising and childhood obesity.The research linking childhood obesity with media and advertising “troubles me as a parent [...]
Newspapers
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Newspapers will Achieve only modest advertising growth in 2007 as circulation woes continue, although the same online phenomenon sapping readership should boost revenue from Web ads, according to forecasters.Predictions of [...]
FCC to Probe Studies’ Fate
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WASHINGTON Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is launching an internal probe of what happened to two studies of media consolidation the agency kept from the public.The action was disclosed [...]
FCC Member Mulls Piecemeal Approach
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WASHINGTON The newest member of the Federal Communications Commission today said the agency might separately consider parts of media ownership rules.The stance by Robert McDowell, a Republican who took office [...]
Net Prepares Indecency Challenge
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WASHINGTON CBS today said it was paying a proposed $550,000 fine so it could legally challenge regulators who ruled that the baring of Janet Jackson’s breast during the 2004 Super [...]
Food Marketers Target Kids Online
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NEW YORK Eighty-five percent of the leading food brands that target children through TV advertising also use branded Web sites to reach kids, according to a new survey.Such information may [...]
FCC Asks for More Time in Indecency Case
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WASHINGTON The Federal Communications Commission is asking a federal court for time to consider affiliates’ arguments that the agency erred in March when it decided, without issuing fines, that the [...]
FCC Opens Ownership Review
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WASHINGTON Partisan tensions flared here yesterday as federal regulators began a sweeping review of rules that limit corporations’ ownership of broadcast stations and newspapers. Acting for the first time since [...]
Senate Creates 3rd Draft of Telecom Bill
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WASHINGTON A new draft of U.S. Senate telecommunications legislation eliminates language that would have forced cable operators to share regional sports programming.The draft is the third version of the massive [...]