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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL -- The country's pay television industry and its suppliers are anxiously awaiting a decision by the Communications Ministry on when cable operators may offer tiered programming packages. [...]

Another pay-per-view blockbuster fight, another crippling fight controversy. Operators last week were left to deal with yet another black eye for the boxing genre after a controversial decision tainted the [...]

WASHINGTON - The cable industry last week vowed to take the Federal Communications Commission to court in the wake of the release of final open-video system (OVS) rules that failed [...]

Commission seeks comments on plan to replace video dialtone The FCC last week made the death of video dialtone official and proposed a new regulatory scheme for telephone companies seeking [...]

SOMETIMES the House of Lords sounds extraordinarily like the lads in the public bar. On February 6th it passed an amendment proposed by Lord Howell, a former Labour minister of [...]

WASHINGTON - Passage of telecommunications reform legislation could get off to a messy start for many cable operators, particularly those in Ameritech Corp.'s five-state Midwest region. Although upper-tier deregulation could [...]

WASHINGTON - Under pressure from at least one Baby Bell and several members of Congress, the Federal Communications Commission put off key issues related to video dialtone. The FCC was [...]

Ameritech has become the first Baby Bell to obtain a cable franchise in its own service area. The deal, signed last week, reflects the telco's movement from the common-carrier approach [...]

Southern New England Telephone has been snubbed by state regulators, who put the kibosh on its plans to make telephone ratepayers finance its video-service plans. Late last week, a draft [...]

Bell Atlantic has won approval from the FCC to roll out the nation's first commercial video dialtone service and has lined up seven video information providers for the Dover Township, [...]

The FCC will issue decisions on all pending video dialtone applications by the end of the month, FCC Chairman Reed Hundt says. 'We have been granting them and getting them [...]

Over cable industry objections, the FCC last week reached a tentative conclusion that telephone companies can offer programing over video dialtone (VDT) networks. The conclusion came as the FCC proposed [...]

The FCC last week issued the details of its video dialtone reconsideration, and the cable industry wasted little time before asking a federal court to threw out the 180-page order. [...]

WASHINGTON -- The ground rules for telco entry into cable are nearly written and the Federal Communications Commission could approve them on Oct. 20. FCC officials strongly indicated last week [...]

Phone companies providing video dialtone services do not have to obtain a municipal franchise or pay franchise fees, a federal appeals court panel ruled Friday in affirming a key element [...]

Phone companies hoping the Federal Communications Commission would move quickly to resolve video dial tone rules will have to wait a little longer. When the agenda for the Aug. 2 [...]

A city councilman in a San Diego suburb is encouraging federal legislation that would give cities the right to block the distribution of adult pay-per-view programming in their communities. The [...]

WASHINGTON -- The cable industry is continuing to pressure the Federal Communications Commission not to approve video dial tone applications filed by major telephone companies until a raft of cable's [...]

WASHINGTON -- The cable industry and a prominent consumer group recently sent a message to the Federal Communications Commission: Promulgate video dial tone rules fast because the telcos are on [...]

Although it's one of the few revenue sources left unfettered, re-regulation has stalled the growth of pay-per-view as operators have been forced to hoard channel space. But operators and PPV [...]

NEW YORK -- With cable operators holding back pay-per-view channel launches until the Cable Act rulings are fully implemented, the PPV networks -- particularly those launching new services -- are [...]

HONG KONG - The Hong Kong government's new pay-TV policy has been released, setting the stage for an international bidding war for one of the world's largest and most lucrative [...]

House Energy and Commerce Committee member Gerry Sikorski (D-Minn.) is considering an amendment to the cable reregulation bill (H.R. 4850) restricting the presentation of major professional sports championship games on [...]

House Bill Would Prohibit Negative Options WASHINGTON - The fallout from Tele-Communications Inc.'s original marketing plans for Encore continues to affect Capitol Hill. Rep. Jim Slattery (D-Kan.) recently offered legislation [...]

Legislation Would Bar Big Games From Hometown PPV WASHINGTON - Rep. Gerry Sikorski (D-Minn.), a newcomer this year to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, admits that he thought the [...]

Bill: Keep Series on B' cast WASHINGTON -- The World Series and the Super Bowl, regardless of any other agreements made between the sponsoring leagues and other media, would have [...]