Martin spent his pre-FCC career as a communications attorney in Washington.
On Friday, the FCC released a 71-page glossy report entitled, "Moving Forward: Driving Investment and Innovation While Protecting Consumers, " which documented Mr. Martin's four years as chairman.
In addition, the 10.8-inch Sharp Galapagos tablet has arrived at the FCC from Asia, a large Linux-based e-reader.
Sirius and XM commissioned Hazlett - currently a law and economics professor at George Mason University -- to write a brief to the FCC on behalf of their merger.
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But while there may be a need for remedial FCC action--in the relatively rare case when there may be a proven market failure--any such action should be targeted narrowly to redress demonstrable consumer harms.
Controversial words and images have been aired at times in scripted and unscripted shows on all the major over-the-air networks in the past eight years, dating back to when the FCC began considering a stronger, no-tolerance policy.
The FCC is taking a semi-approach to net neutrality wherein most of the rules will be applied to wireline broadband networks.
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With that little Department of Justice business out of their way, Sirius and XM have unsurprisingly been quick to start chatting up the all-important FCC, and a recent filing from the agency has now revealed that lawyers from the two companies have met with none other than FCC Chairman Kevin Martin himself, along with other higher-ups.
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It might alternately be the even more mysterious SCH-i415, which just showed up at the FCC this weekend and could be a world-roaming sequel to the Stratosphere (SCH-i405) with CDMA, LTE and GSM all rolled into one.
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And when it comes to local news, Martin - Chairman Martin of FCC believes that combining the news-gathering potential of a TV station and a newspaper newsroom can only help both organs at a moment when both have to compete with the dreaded Internet.
The company already has FCC approval to start a land-based mobile phone service.
To ensure access to newly exclusive programming, the FCC will rely on a case-by-case review of any complaints brought by distribution rivals.
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And the one piece of good news is that for the most part, a sensible, straight-forward strategic plan for a 21st century FCC has already been written.
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You could make a case for this as a feature-film version of the FCC's fairness doctrine, but it feels more like a blandness doctrine, a pulling and hauling of the tone-deaf script, which is credited to Matthew Michael Carnahan, to the point of perfect vacuousness.
It's a serious, deep-seated problem that FCC cannot explain why proprietary control over networks is fundamentally a positive thing and the source of genuine "neutrality" (that of "business model neutrality").
This confirms the 115 x 55-mm height and width shown by the FCC yesterday as well as a new, approximate, 16.35-mm depth after applying the calipers.
In December 2007, Martin's commission has loosened a decades-old ban on media cross-ownership, causing a rift among the FCC's commissioners.
"From a very high-level public policy perspective, Congress and the FCC want to see a couple of new players make it, " notes Ellison.
But when a net neutrality regime gums things up, it'll be tough to extricate a self-serving FCC.
FCC's open-market test as a result of concessions made when it bought Nynex.
"Anyone who wants to do a radio program can do it over the Internet, " says Harold Furchtgott-Roth, a former FCC commissioner during the Clinton Administration.
"These economic attributes, when combined with media concentration, endanger democracy, " intoned a collection of self-appointed media watchdog groups in a response to another FCC filing last December that would lift the restriction against combinations of newspapers and broadcast outfits in the same market.
The two have been popping up all around the web -- they stopped by the FCC earlier this week and there was an early spec leak from a Russian site -- but now we're finally getting some real details and hands-on impressions courtesy of Charbax, who is quite possibly the biggest Archos fan in the world.
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This almost useless port -- thanks DRM -- is a result of an FCC mandate that has been enforced for almost ten years.
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The FCC said the court incorrectly applied a rule - which has since changed - regarding expletives that required a profanity be repeated before it is deemed indecent.
Specifically, the FCC 3-2 partisan vote was followed by a partisan House vote (234 Rs against, 2 Rs for, 6 Ds against and 177 Ds for), and a partisan Senate vote (52 Ds for vs. 46 Rs against).
Towards the end of 2012, Dish Network won FCC approval to use its spectrum for a ground-based cellular network.
That announcement reignited a long-standing firefight over FCC interference in broadband Internet access.
Which means our FCC's laws--which treat spectrum as a sort of real estate, complete with CCRs and fences--get doubly moronic every year and a half.
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