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The Federal Communications Commission said it 'took a holistic approach to expanding use of over 1 gigahertz of prime mid-band spectrum in the 12 GHz band by ensuring stable spectrum [...]

The FCC June 14 released rules to mitigate space path interference between the 17/24GHz Broadcasting-Satellite Service (BSS) space-to-Earth transmissions and the feeder link receiving antennas of Direct Broadcast Satellite Service [...]

How should the FCC go about determining the ability of TV viewers in specific locations to receive over-the-air signal from local television stations for the purpose of deciding whether or [...]

by Todd Spangler Satellite Provider Tells FCC 'All-MVPD' Solution Would Be Costly, Slow Innovation DirecTV continues to argue that it should not be subjected to the same Federal Communications Commission [...]

WASHINGTON -- In a blow to the cable industry, the Federal Communications Commission approved a new rule on Wednesday intended to make it easier for telephone companies and other video [...]

The FCC has issued a Report and Order that implements the requirement that satellite providers in Alaska and Hawaii carry local broadcasters' analog and digital signals. This continues the implementation [...]

The Federal Communications Commission reversed field and reinstated EchoStar Communications' [DISH] license to launch a satellite with high-speed Internet capabilities. In June, the FCC revoked the company's license for using […]

FCC Cable Services Bureau chief W. Kenneth Ferree will have a big say in whether cable operators still have to sell their satellite-delivered networks to direct-broadcast satellite competitors after Oct. [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission is considering rules to restrict the common ownership of cable systems and direct-broadcast satellite carriers --a move opposed by FCC chairman Michael Powell three [...]

FCC makes minor changes; leaves a La carte option intact Broadcasters and satellite-TV carriers have been competing to alter rules governing carriage of local channels, but last week the federal [...]

SATELLITE, LAND-BASED PROVIDERS WAR OVER SPECTRUM THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION IS ONCE AGAIN AT THE CENTER OF A PASSIONATE spectrum debate, this time over the 12.2-gigahertz to 12.7-GHz band that […]

WASHINGTON -- Comcast Corp. won a program-access victory when the Federal Communications Commission ruled the MSO is not required to sell its Philadelphia-area sports network to DirecTV Inc. and EchoStar [...]

WASHINGTON -- Direct-broadcast satellite providers said at least 250,000 of their subscribers would have reception problems if the Federal Communications Commission allows Northpoint Technology Ltd.'s planned competing terrestrial service to [...]

As DirecTV and EchoStar last week filed suit against federal rules requiring satellite carriers to offer all local stations in a market, a would-be competitor hoped to win some brownie [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission is pondering whether direct-broadcast satellite operators need to carry both the analog and digital TV signals of local broadcasters. The FCC floated the idea [...]

The FCC two weeks ago began a proceeding to decide whether the standard used to determine whether a TV viewer is eligible to import distant TV signals via satellite should [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission adopted rules last Friday for handling retransmission-consent complaints against direct-broadcast satellite carriers. DBS firms can serve dish owners with local TV signals, but they [...]

FCC CHAIRMAN TOM WHEELER used some tough talk, and action, from his bully pulpit to help push Dish and Sinclair into striking a retransmission deal last week. Dish had sought [...]

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) wasn't sounding like someone ready to pass a clean STELA reauthorization for the sake of avoiding debate about the state of the video marketplace, [...]

Unless a court decides otherwise, a major block of direct-broadcast satellite television spectrum will be sold to the highest bidder on Wednesday. The bidders will be named today, according to [...]

WASHINGTON -- In a letter to the Federal Communications Commission, DirecTV told the agency that Fox is misleading consumers in advertising related to their cable programming dispute. In the missive [...]

WASHINGTON -- On the heels of a recent regulatory victory, EchoStar Communications Corp. is continuing to warn regulators about the alleged ills associated with mandated direct-broadcast satellite carriage of local [...]

WASHINGTON -- For the direct-broadcast satellite industry, regulation and technology could be on a collision course that winds up producing a new business model for the delivery of local TV [...]

Federal Communications Commissioners Michael Copps and Kevin Martin last week expressed concern that the FCC's Media Bureau should have come down harder on EchoStar Communications when it found that the [...]

NEW YORK -- The FCC sided with broadcasters against EchoStar Thursday, ruling the satcaster can't carry local TV stations to consumers over a second satellite dish even if the dish [...]

For at least a dozen or so station groups, the FCC's E-Z waiver for delaying digital television might not be so easy after all. Last week, the FCC asked some [...]

The repercussions of the EchoStar/DirecTV proposed deal continued, with top FCC staffers revealing concerns about the merger, which would create the country's largest satellite TV service. Rupert Murdoch, whose News […]

New rules issued by the FCC last week are likely to address only a small minority of the roughly 2.2 million direct-broadcast satellite customers who are threatened with losing their [...]

Primestar Partners L.P. earlier this month countered appeals by its competitors that it should not gain high-powered access to coveted direct-broadcast satellite real estate at the 110 degrees west orbital [...]

Broadcasters, cable operators and satellite TV providers have eight years to put closed captions on all their new shows. Under rules adopted by the FCC last week, 95% of new [...]

WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission last week for the first time voided a city ordinance that the agency said illegally interfered with ownership of a satellite dish. Acting in [...]

FCC officials are eyeing a plan to examine foreign ownership of satellite TV services. Clinton administration officials this month asked the commission to conduct a rulemaking on how foreign ownership [...]

For years now, the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Congress have proclaimed direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service as a true competitor to the cable industry. This year we will […]