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WASHINGTON — On Monday, Free Press filed a formal challenge at the FCC to the proposed merger of Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media. The petition to deny seeks to halt the transfer of broadcast licenses that would give Sinclair control of more than 233 local TV stations reaching 72 percent of the country’s population.

News Voices: North Carolina aims to connect local news staffs with residents with untold stories.

The Trump FCC is simply doing the bidding of Comcast, AT&T, Verizon and Charter in its quest to abandon rules against blocking, slowing or speeding internet traffic, Wheeler says.

“It’s unheard of to have one company pushing one specific agenda reaching so many people and doing it in a way designed to evade local input,” says Craig Aaron, president and CEO of Free Press, a Washington-based group that opposes media consolidation.

The threat to Net Neutrality is more urgent than ever.

The Federal Communications Commission should investigate whether Verizon Wireless violated Net Neutrality rules by throttling video applications on its mobile network, advocacy group Free Press says.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, ISP-endorsed frontman and villain of a theoretical future Revenge of the Nerds reboot, is trying to dupe everyone into believing abandoning open-internet principles is inevitable because no opponents have any convincing arguments.

Rep. Michael Doyle accused Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai of pursuing an agenda that harms both consumers and small businesses.

New legislation introduced today by Reps. David Price and Jared Huffman would protect local television markets across the country from corporate consolidation by permanently ending the so-called “UHF discount,” an obsolete FCC loophole that the Trump administration wants to revive to benefit right-wing media conglomerates.

Trump’s FCC chief, Ajit Pai, was in the hot seat Tuesday on Capitol Hill.
Democratic lawmakers are not happy with President Trump’s top telecom regulator, former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai. And that’s putting it mildly.