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12/18/2025
NCTA Presses FCC To Restore Top-Four Ban
NCTA called on the FCC to reinstate the top-four prohibition to its broadcast ownership rules, arguing it has the statutory authority to bring it back.
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12/18/2025
Verizon-Frontier Progress
The pending merger between Verizon and Frontier Communications hit a speed bump laid out by the California Public Utilities Commission, but it’s looking like there could be forward progress in the new year.
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12/18/2025
Soo Kim’s Cable Ambitions?
No Paramount , no problem it seems for Warner Bros. Discovery ’s linear networks. FT reports that Standard General founder Soo Kim has held talks with a “major” WBD shareholder to buy WBD’s cable
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12/18/2025
FCC Meeting Caps an Eventful 2025
No time to rest for the FCC, which held its final open meeting for 2025 just a short 24 hours after Senate Commerce’s oversight hearing.
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12/17/2025
Effros: Your Turn
OK, it’s the last column of the year, and most folks expect either a retrospective or a guesstimate at what’s going to happen in the next year. I’m going to do a little of both, but I’m going to put the onus on you, dear reader, to decide what you think is going to happen.
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12/17/2025
Cantwell Says FCC ‘Not Focused Enough’ on Affordability
Senate Commerce Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-WA) views media consolidation as a threat to improving affordability for consumers—a notion she believes the FCC “is not focused enough on.”