shouting loudly

After months in front of a deadlocked FCC, AT&T has a green light to swallow BellSouth (pdf). The new company will control “more than half the telephone and Internet access lines in the U.S.” The merger likely would have sailed through on the strength of the FCC’s 3-2 Republican majority, but the newest Republican commissioner, [...]

As reported by CNet, the Justice Department on Thursday denied allegations that it gave approval after a stacked-deck hearing.

The Future of Music Coalition has released a report damning the social and economic impact of consolidation in the radio industry. Key findings include: Just fifteen formats make up three-quarters of all commercial programming. Moreover, radio formats with different names can overlap up to 80% in terms of the songs played on them. Niche musical [...]

The FCC has decided to allow experimenation in the highly desirable portion of spectrum that currently carries over-the-air TV. The spectrum, which falls below 900 megahertz, is generally viewed as the Park Avenue of the airwaves. It carries transmissions through walls and other obstructions much more easily than the slices of spectrum that are currently [...]

In a Rueters story this Thursday, Mark Cuban said that “anyone who [invests in YouTube] is a moron.” I LOVE YouTube, but I fear that he’s basically right. Cuban has two main points. His first claim, that YouTube is on the verge of being “sued into oblivion,” is hardly a done deal but generally right [...]

Maybe; FreePress thinks so.