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Another dispute between a TV content provider and a multipoint distributor has arisen, as FierceCable reports : "AMC Networks is warning Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ) FiOS TV subscribers that they will lose AMC, IFC, WE, IFC and Sundance Channel unless the telco agrees to pay increased license fees by Dec. 31." AMC had been an also ...

Heartland's John Nothdurft speaks out for school choice and parental empowerment in this video short from National School Choice Week. National School Choice Week is January 22-28 in 2012. They're holding events around the nation. Click here for more information after watching the School Choice Week video short below. ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit overturned the Federal Communications Commission’s $550,000 fine of CBS for Janet Jackson’s 2004 Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction.” In its opinion, rendered November 2, 2011, the court ruled the FCC’s fine represented an undisclosed change in the enforcement of its indecency policy ...

This new column, "Media Metrics," aims to paint the most thorough and objective portrait of the true state of America's modern media marketplace ever constructed. It is my belief that for far too long in this country--especially in recent years--debates about the media, and public policies governing the media marketplace, have ...

Amid reports of declining numbers of local news outlets, the Democratic Congress has taken to decrying media consolidation. Too many newspapers and TV and radio stations are falling into too few hands, they say. These same companies control network programming, movie studios, and recording labels. Political diversity and diversity ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is once again reviewing its media ownership rules. These are the rules that dictate the extent to which various types of media outlets may be commonly owned. The stated purpose of the ownership rules is to promote competition, diversity of viewpoint, and the availability of local ...

Nearly half of senior executives surveyed recognize that reaching audiences through only traditional mass media is no longer effective, and they are actively developing ways to reach consumers through more customized means, including Internet Web sites and social networking sites. Usage and Planned Spending on Alternative ...

New York Times media business reporter Richard Siklos recently penned an excellent column titled, “In a Blurry World, Ownership Is Yesterday’s News.” “It is hard to find any public policy question that feels less relevant by the minute than whether one person or company should be permitted to own television stations and newspapers ...

Numerous writers and analysts have argued that large media conglomerates’ purchases of movie studios, magazines, and book publishing companies over the past four decades have had a deleterious effect on the quality of production in these media, because it forced them to bring in higher profits than were historically attainable ...

Katie Couric has made her debut as anchor of the CBS Evening News, and if there was something historic about her first broadcast, it might be this: You didn’t have to watch it on TV. CBS had announced it would be the first network to simulcast its nightly news program online. Although probably the most ambitious effort ...

In 22 years as head of a public policy research organization, I have never before seen a more concerted effort to shut down debate on important public policy issues. That this effort is coming from the liberal end of the political spectrum, which historically has defended unfettered intellectual inquiry and free speech, is ...

Michael Crichton, author of State of Fear and many other exciting novels, died on November 4, 2008, after a long battle against cancer. He was 66. State of Fear is a devastating critique of radical environmentalism in general and global warming alarmism in particular. When the book appeared in 2005, Crichton was met with a ...

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America's sports industry is in a funk. After a decade of strong growth, leagues, franchises and networks are facing a new reality as TV ratings fall and attendance drops. ...

Each year, the Education Writers Association hosts a National Seminar for education reporters and presents national awards in a range of categories for the best reporting in newspapers, magazines, special-interest publications, television, and radio. At this year’s event, held in Washington, DC in April, Patrick Healy of The ...

Economist Thomas Sowell recently wrote a column aimed at a chronic affliction in journalism: the lack of integrity by some editors and writers. In the pursuit of an agenda or lack of critical evaluation, statistics and facts are often skewed or reported without question. And, throwing honesty to the wind, writers fail to ...

It doesn't take long to figure out there's something odd about ABC's John Stossel, the consumer and environmental reporter who does those "Give Me a Break" segments on 20/20 on Friday nights. For one thing, unlike most of his colleagues on and off the air, Stossel is no liberal Democrat. Nor is he just another Brit Hume ...