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from: National journal

AT&T-Backed Group Won't Face Wis. Probe

By Michael Martinez

(Monday, August 20) The top law enforcer in Wisconsin has decided not to formally investigate an advocacy group that misrepresented a pair of state lawmakers' positions on a pending telecommunications bill.

from: In These Times

The Promise of Low Power FM

From In These Times, August 23, 2007
By Michelle Chen

The movement to develop alternatives to mainstream corporate-owned radio got a boost recently with a bi-partisan congressional bill to expand low-power FM (LPFM), a class of frequencies devoted to non-commercial community groups. Though LPFM stations only broadcast a radius of three-and-a-half miles, they offer the chance to bring seldom-heard voices on the air.

from: ConnPost

AT&T building U-verse
By PAM DAWKINS
Article Last Updated: 08/23/2007 10:35:33 PM EDT

While a federal district court and state regulators contemplate rulings about the nature of AT&T's U-verse television service, the company continues building up the infrastructure and customer base.

from: Tuscaloosa News

City opposes deregulating Comcast

By Robert DeWitt
Staff Writer
Published Wednesday, August 22, 2007

TUSCALOOSA | The city of Tuscaloosa is opposing an attempt by Comcast Cable to end city regulation of basic cable rates.

Tuesday the Tuscaloosa City Council voted unanimously to authorize the city’s legal departments to file comments with the Federal Communications Commission opposing Comcast’s request for relief from regulation.

from: TV Week

FCC’s Martin Apologizes to Minority Groups for a la Carte Statements

“The idea that you would suggest that you somehow know better about what is in the best interests of African American, Hispanic, women’s and other communities is puzzling, to say the very least.”