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Under the Cable Act of 1992, when certain TV broadcasters want their programming carried on cable networks serving the same geographical are...

As I pointed out in piece published last week on CBS.com called "Reject the Internet 'Public Option," groups like Public Know...

Len Lazarick has an excellent piece today on the MarylandReporter.com site concerning what he calls the "darker underside" of Ma...

In addition to other transparency and open government measures being promoted in Maryland's General Assembly (see my pieces here and he...

Scott Cleland's latest blog, titled How much should Google be subsidized? , is a very good exposé demonstrating the extent to which Goog...

I am not much in the business of recommending petition signing, but I note that an online petition website has been set up to collect signa...

Last Friday, the Free State Foundation published a Perspectives from FSF Scholars on the proposed Comcast-NBCU merger by Richard Epstein, o...

Amidst continuing doubts about whether the Federal Communications Commission's Title I ancillary jurisdiction gives it power to impose ...

There is an interesting piece on the Broadcasting & Cable website in which John Eggerton, B&C's longtime, highly knowledgeable ...

At the U.S. House of Representatives hearing on the proposed Comcast-NBCU joint venture, more than one member of Congress brought up the ide...

The sudden receptivity of the Maryland General Assembly to measures to increase transparency regarding the legislature's work is certain...

At last Friday's Free State Foundation's Annual Winter Telecom Policy Conference, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell gave a stirring k...

The intercarrier compensation system is outdated, complex, and in need of reform. But due to political pressures, analysis paralysis, or wha...

In my recent essay opposing net neutrality regulation, entitled "Overregulating the Internet," which ran in the National Review ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has finished its inquiry into wireless carriers' text-messaging rates and intends to take no furthe...

It's a new year, but Free Press and other so-called public interest organizations didn't waste any time making it clear that they wi...