Brian Stelter

C-Span Puts Full Archives on the Web

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Location: C-SPAN, Washington, DC, United States

Researchers, political satirists and partisan mudslingers, take note: C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet.

Duplicating Federal Videos for an Online Archive

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Location: National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001 , United States

A look at an effort to unlock the thousands of videos tucked away in the National Archives by making it available over the Internet.

FCC Plan to Widen Internet Access in US Sets Up Battle

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Location: Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC, 20554, United States

The Federal Communications Commission is proposing an ambitious 10-year plan that will reimagine the nation's media and technology priorities by establishing high-speed Internet as the country's dominant communication network. The plan, which will be submitted to Congress on Tuesday, is likely to generate debate in Washington and a lobbying battle among the telecommunication giants, which over time may face new competition for customers.

Comcast Is Absent From Campaign to Change Retransmission Rules

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Location: Comcast, 1500 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19102-2148, United States

Many of the country's biggest television providers have signed on to a petition asking the government to revamp station retransmission rules. Cablevision, Charter, DirecTV, Dish Network, Time Warner Cable and Verizon all joined the coalition of providers and nonprofit groups in signing the petition on Tuesday. But the nation's biggest cable company, Comcast, was missing.

At the Last Minute, a Disney-Cablevision Truce

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Location: New York, NY, United States

The Oscar statuette became a pawn in a public brawl between the Walt Disney Company and Cablevision on Sunday, a dispute that prevented more than three million viewers from watching the beginning of the Academy Awards show until a tentative agreement restored the signal 14 minutes into the telecast.

Viacom and Hulu Part Ways

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In the first major fracture between television show owners and the wildly popular Hulu.com, Viacom will remove programs from the video site next week.

Network News at a Crossroads

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With news available more places than ever, on cable channels and Internet sites, and with revenue challenged by heavy dependence on shrinking advertising dollars, the future for the news divisions at ABC and CBS remains deeply insecure.

Water-Cooler Effect: Internet Can Be TV's Friend

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Remember when the Internet was supposed to kill off television? That hasn't been the case lately, judging by the record television ratings for big-ticket events.

FCC Takes a Close Look at the Unwired

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Location: Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC, 20554, United States

For many Americans, having high-speed access to the Internet at home is as vital as electricity, heat and water. And yet about one-third of the population, 93 million people, have...

Politicians as News Analysts Raise Questions on Their Goal

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Sarah Palin. Mike Huckabee. Newt Gingrich. Today, that is a list of paid Fox News political analysts. Two years from now, it could be a list of Republican presidential candidates.

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