Reassessing Turner and litigating the must-carry law beyond a facial challenge.
I. INTRODUCTION II. MUST-CARRY'S PURPOSE A. Cable Becomes a Threat to Broadcasting B. FCC. Attempts to Protect Local Broadcasting from Cable C. Objections to the Must-Carry Provisions D. Road to the Modern Must-Carry Law: Century Communications and the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 1. The...

The cultural industries, 2d ed.
9781412908078 The cultural industries, 2d ed. Hesmondhalgh, David. Sage Publications 2007 346 pages $120.00 Hardcover P118 Hesmondhalgh (social sciences, the Open U., UK) explains patterns of continuity and change in the...

NRI woman to head BBC temporarily.
Byline: Rashmee Roshan Lall LONDON: An NRI doctor born in Tamil Nadu's cultural capital of Madurai is set to become the head of the BBC and arbiter of 21st-century Britain's broadcasting culture, even if by default and solely in a caretaker capacity. Dr Chitra Bharucha's...

Cong retains sting for media.
NEW DELHI: Even while maintaining that media should self-regulate use of sting operations and that it fully supported freedom of the press, Congress on Wednesday made it clear that it has not given up on the controversial Broadcast Bill which arms government with sweeping powers to regulate content of...

Traditional paradigms for new services? The Commission proposal for a 'Audiovisual Media Services Directive'.
Abstract: For over 10 years the European Community has strived to develop suitable and proportionate answers to the phenomenon of convergence in its audiovisual regulatory policy. This article outlines the regulatory process at an EU level since the early 1980s as far as media, telecommunications and Information Society services...

What can be done?; making the media and politics better.
9781405136938 What can be done?; making the media and politics better. Ed. by John Lloyd and Jean Seaton. Blackwell Publishing 2006 164 pages $34.95 Paperback P95 Lloyd (a contributing editor for...

Who needs a media cop?
NEW DELHI: Imagine a law where no single company can sell more than one variant of a soap brand or any other product or service. Since most marketers like to sell to a majority, all that consumers have, is duplication of the same variant, albeit with different...

The Public Television Legal Survival Guide, 2d ed.
The Public Television Legal Survival Guide, 2d ed., Association of Public Television Stations, 2001, 254 pages. The book can be ordered only through the Association of Public Television Stations. With a great deal of work, a creative scriptwriter might turn this book into Survivor VII: Inside the...

Space, the final frontier - expanding FCC regulation of indecent content onto direct broadcast satellite.
I. INTRODUCTION II. CONTENT REGULATION AND CALLS FOR EXPANSION A. Pressure to Extend Broadcast Indecency Regulation to Cable and DBS. B. Current Content Regulation C. The Commission's Longstanding Refusal to Extend Its Indecency Regulations to Subscription Media III. POSSIBLE STATUTORY BASIS FOR FCC REGULATION OF INDECENCY ON DBS A....

Cable operators' Fifth Amendment claims applied to digital must-carry.
I. INTRODUCTION II. MUST-CARRY AND RETRANSMISSION CONSENT RULES A. Analog Must-Carry B. Analog Must-Carry Ru les Are Ctitutional C. Digital Must-Carry III. CABLE FIFTH AMENDMENT CLAIMS A. Physical Appropriation B. Regulatory Takings IV. COMPELLED SPEECH AND PROPERTY IN THE CABLE CONTEXT W. CONCLUSION I. INTRODUCTION ...