Bridgewater Telephone Co. sued the city of Monticello, Minn., for beginning construction of a city-owned and -operated fiber-optic network. A District Court judge dismissed a lawsuit, finding that the city was well within its rights to build the network by issuing municipal bonds.

The FCC weighed in on the bitter battle between the NFL Network and Comcast on Friday night. The agency says that it finds convincing charges that Comcast fouled NFLN by refusing to carry it on its most popular tier.

CBS moderator Bob Schieffer, "felt very badly for Tom Brokaw" after the second presidential debate and said he hopes Obama and McCain mix it up in the more intimate format of the third and final debate.

AT&T and other telco giants have sworn before Congress to keep their distance from "deep packet inspection," or DPI, which allows network managers to inspect, track and target Internet content. But these execs aren't telling the public the whole truth about their Web-filtering plans.

Whistleblowers from the NSA are contradicting assertions by President Bush that the agency listens in on the overseas conversations of innocent Americans. Will the Senate conduct a thorough investigation?

As the battle continues over carriage fees between Time Warner Cable and local broadcaster LIN TV, the cable operator is gearing up for what analysts expect to be its next major squabble.

The transition to digital television was supposed to be more than just an upgrade in picture quality. It was also supposed to usher in a revolution in TV content and the quality of free television. The the actual landscape looks something like basic cable.

Recent psychological experiments suggest live feedback graphics on TV screens during the presidential debates can influence viewers' judgments. That might give tiny focus groups outsize influence, especially over undecideds. But there is a broader question: How much of our political opinions are our own?

A battle between tech companies and broadcasters over use of soon-to-be vacant airwaves will heat up as the FCC releases an anticipated report on the issue. The agency is expected to weigh in on the feasibility of opening up white spaces -- unused pockets of the spectrum -- for unlicensed use.

A coalition of low-power TV stations said they had signatures from more than 150 station representatives calling for the FCC to start the process of giving several hundred low-power stations a path to full-power status, which would secure them carriage on cable systems.