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FCC Approves Merger Creating Nation’s Largest Cable, Broadband Provider
By Tom Butts published
Cox-Charter merger hinged on ending ‘DEI discrimination’

Updated: Paramount Wins Bidding War for Warner Bros. Discovery
By George Winslow published
Netflix has declined to raise its bid, saying `the price required to match Paramount Skydance's latest offer...is no longer financially attractive"

Scripps to Reacquire 23 ION Stations
By George Winslow published
The stations were divested to comply with ownership caps in 2021

FCC Launches Inquiry Into Broadcast Sports Rights
By George Winslow published
The NAB applauded the move by the Media Bureau to seek public comments on such issues as the shift of rights away from free-to-air broadcasts

DirecTV Study Finds Consolidation Decreases `Quality’ and `Diversity' of Local News
By George Winslow published
The study filed with the FCC found that in `the majority of duopolies, triopolies, and quadropolies’ station groups offered `essentially the same local news’

Blumenthal Seeks FCC Records on ‘Weaponization’ of Equal Time Rule
By George Winslow published
FCC Democratic senator says the agency’s new guidance for talk and late-night TV is a ‘partisan censorship scheme’

When It Comes to the Upper C-Band, Wireless Carriers Want More
By Randy J. Stine published
5G and 6G service providers pressure the FCC for more spectrum for new services

FCC Chair Carr Urges Broadcasters to Air `Patriotic, Pro-America Programming’
By George Winslow published
He has established a voluntary `Pledge America Campaign’ for broadcasters to support America’s 250th Birthday
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