WASHINGTON -- On Monday, Free Press released Cease to Resist: How the FCC’s Failure to Enforce Its Policies Created a New Wave of Media Consolidation. The report investigates how companies are using shady tactics to buy up TV stations and build new national media empires.
WASHINGTON -- On Monday, Free Press filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission about a flawed Minority Media Telecommunications Council study purporting to examine the impact of cross-ownership on women- and minority-owned broadcast stations.
Cable-channel owners are increasingly driving the soaring prices in our cable bills. And the steep rates are prompting more and more people to cut the cord.
WASHINGTON – On Monday, DISH Network announced a $25.5 billion proposed merger with Sprint Nextel. The offer competes with a move by Japan's SoftBank to acquire Sprint.
WASHINGTON - On Thursday the Department of Justice Antitrust Division sent a letter to the FCC calling on the agency to adopt "rules that ensure the smaller nationwide networks, which currently lack substantial low-frequency spectrum, have an opportunity to acquire such spectrum."
WASHINGTON – On Thursday, Free Press responded to claims in a blog post by AT&T Senior Vice President Bob Quinn that the Federal Communications Commission is moving too slowly on a petition that would eliminate certain regulations that ensure consumers and businesses have access to quality services at reasonable prices.