FCC Rules Chicago TV Station Can Refuse To Air Anti-Abortion Super Bowl Ad
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME POLITICS? Today's Super Bowl is set to be a pretty intense one between the Giants and the Patriots, but let's face it, we're also tuning in for the ads. And according to POLITICO, tonight we are going to be bombarded by a storm of political ads. One of...
Did The Kardashians Fake Footage From Dubai? The Internet Says ‘Come On, Seriously?’
On January 8th, Kris Humphries, the former husband of reality star Kim Kardashian, shared a cryptic Tweet about his ex-wife's show, invoking the FCC. "I can't wait for the truth to come out!" he wrote. "People will be surprised or maybe they won't. #FCC." Hashtag: #DRAMA!
Daily Must Reads, Dec. 23, 2011
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Nathan Gibbs
1. FCC proposes relaxing newspaper-TV ownership rules (Los Angeles Times)
2. How smartphones are changing photography (Wire)
3. File-sharing app creator not guilty of copyright infringement (TorrentFreak)
4. Is plagiarism killing creativity in the games industry? (Guardian)
Verizon’s spectrum deal with cable is the end of broadband competition
The spectrum deal that Verizon signed to buy the unused airwaves from the nation's top cable providers signals the moment that the consumer benefits of the convergence of voice, video and data hit the wall. It's a deal that's great for Verizon and bad for consumers. 
How Non-Profit, For-Profit Newsrooms Are Working Together
BERKELEY, CALIF. -- As traditional newsrooms shrink and budgets tighten, media outlets have realized they can't do as much investigative, time-intensive reporting. But one solution has been for competing news outlets to begin collaborating...
Verizon to AT&T: Want more spectrum? Here’s how you get it.
Verizon has offered three cable companies a total of $3.6 billion for spectrum that Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks were planning to use for their own mobile play, and it’s unlikely that the Federal Communications Commission will do anything to stop it. 
Verizon building a spectrum empire with cable deal
Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks are selling off the spectrum remnants of their stillborn wireless venture, SpectrumCo, to Verizon Wireless for $3.6 billion. The deal allows Verizon to double up on its LTE network, while creating a new alliance between Verizon and cable.
