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REPORT: The Case For Universal Broadband in America: Now!
| October 16, 2007 Today, more than three years after President Bush made universal broadband “in every corner of America by 2007" an explicit goal of his administration, millions of Americans are still without broadband access to the Internet. Other areas have access only to low quality "fraudband" that is so slow, unreliable or unaffordable that it fails to meet other countries’ definitions of broadband, and fails to provide the benefits that President Bush described when he established the goal.
All Americans will benefit from fast, reliable, affordable, universal and open broadband access to the Internet. Our Report, The Case for Universal Broadband in America: Now! tells why. More»
Creative Voices' Comments to FCC in 2006 Media Ownership Proceeding
| October 25, 2006 Misguided FCC media ownership policies harm competition, diversity of viewpoints, and localism – the Commission’s key policy goals in regulating media ownership – and prevent the American public from receiving better broadcast television, the Center for Creative Voices in Media told the Commission in comments filed today. Read the Comments and our Press Release. More»
Creative Voices' Comments to FCC Re Internet Freedom
| October 24, 2006 The FCC must not approve the merger of AT&T and BellSouth without attaching strong and enforceable Internet Freedom/Net Neutrality conditions. What is at stake in the FCC’s consideration of this colossal combination of AT&T and BellSouth is nothing less than the future of the Internet, and whether that future Internet will be open or closed to independent and diverse voices and viewpoints. Not just creative voices – ALL voices. Read our Comments to the FCC in the AT&T - BellSouth merger, as well as our press release, here. More»
Ownership Concentration and Indecency -- Is There a Link?
| October 6, 2005 Creative Voices's research report, "Ownership Concentration and Indecency in Broadcasting: Is There a Link?" finds that from 2000 to 2003, four of the nation's largest radio companies were responsible for 96% of FCC indecency fines, while their stations accounted for only about half of the country's listening audience. The study points out that some of the politicians who are now trying to crack down on indecency by raising fines on broadcasters are the same ones who voted in 1996 to relax ownership rules that contributed to concentration. The report concludes that, "One of the unintended consequences of their support of deregulation is an increase in indecency." FOR A COPY OF THE REPORT, CLICK More»
The Future Internet: Open or Closed?
| August 11, 2005 Many in America’s creative community have assumed that the rapidly approaching Internet of tomorrow -- high-speed, low-cost, and utterly pervasive -- will empower media creators to directly reach their audience, eliminating the corporate middleman distributor. Or, as some might less diplomatically put it, “the worm has turned! No more "suits!" But will we get that Internet? Or a closed Internet with a new set of gatekeepers? Read our article. More»
"Should People Who Don't Watch TV Care What's on TV?
| June 26, 2005 Our article for the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture on why anyone who cares about preserving free, independent, diverse, and original speech in our nation needs to care about what's on TV today. Unless addressed soon, the threats engulfing free speech on TV today may threaten the Internet and the arts tomorrow. More»
Creative Voices on Appointment of Kevin Martin as FCC Chairman
| March 16, 2005 New FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s support for increasing media concentration and consolidation, as well as for expanded government regulation of program content that some find objectionable, are cause for concern to not only creative artists, but more importantly, to the American public. More»
"Private Ryan" Saved From Censors
| February 28, 2005 As creative artists who are also parents in many cases, we share the concern of policymakers about the problem of objectionable programming. But heavy-handed government fines and censorship are not the way. Giving parents and consumers the tools necessary to avoid programming that might offend them is. In finding "Saving Private Ryan" neither indecent nor profane, the FCC noted how all the tools at the public's disposal enabled anyone who might find "Ryan" offensive to easily avoid it. Bravo. Read our press release More»
Powell's Legacy: He Riled the Masses
| February 17, 2005 "The Bush administration’s decision to let stand the U.S. Court of Appeals’ overturning of the FCC’s 2003 media-ownership decision as “arbitrary and capricious” is a welcome and well-deserved ending to a sorry chapter in not only media regulation but in American democratic government." Read our full article in Broadcasting & Cable magazine. More»
House to Public: Chill!
| February 16, 2005 As creative artists who are also parents in many cases, we share the concern of policymakers about the problem of objectionable programming. But censorship is not the way. Rather, let’s do something about the root cause of the problem – media concentration. Read our full statement on the regrettable passage by the House of The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005. More»
Money Talks, the First Amendment Walks
| February 10, 2005 As creative artists and members of the public, we deeply regret the passage today of the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2005 by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Rather than increasing fines for broadcasters, and imposing fines on creative artists, our nation’s policymakers should deal with the problem of objectionable programming by addressing one of its root causes -- media concentration. They should also address one of the principal reasons consumers and parents are unable to avoid objectionable programming – again, media concentration. More»
Creative Artists Call on FCC to Empower and Educate Parents to Avoid Excessively Violent Television
| October 15, 2004 Creative artists welcome the FCC’s inquiry into the question of whether violent content on television harms children, the Center for Creative Voices in Media, The Caucus of Television Producers, Writers & Directors, and quality children’s television advocate Peggy Charren, the founder of Action for Children’s Television told the Commission today.
However, we are concerned that in a perhaps well-intentioned, but extremely misguided effort to “protect children,” the Commission will regulate the content of possibly violent television programming. Such program regulation is censorship; it chills free expression; and it prevents the American public from access to unobjectionable quality television shows. More»
FCC Indecency Rules Stifling Quality Programming, Must be Reconsidered
| May 13, 2004 Creative, original, challenging, controversial, non-homogenized decent and appropriate programming, already in short supply on television, is severely endangered by the FCC’s overly-broad, vague new indecency rules, write CCVM Exec. Director Jonathan Rintels and CCVM Advisory Board Member Peggy Charren, one of America’s best known and most respected advocates for quality children’s television programming, in a May 11th letter to FCC Chairman Powell asking that the Commission reconsider its new indecency rules. More»
CCVM Calls on FCC to Enact Public Interest Obligations for Digital TV Broadcasters
| April 2, 2004 Before the FCC considers whether cable operators must carry all of a broadcaster's digital TV channels in the coming Digital TV era, it must first enact Public Interest Obligations on digital broadcasters that increase independent viewpoints, voices, and sources in TV programming. More»
CCVM Petitions FCC to Reconsider Fundamentally Flawed New Media Ownership Rules - PR
| September 4, 2003 Citing the obvious contradiction between the FCC’s admission that concentrated media ownership harms the public’s interest in viewpoint diversity and its new rules allowing even more concentrated media ownership, CCVM petitioned the Commission to reconsider those new rules. More»
FCC Unleashes Weapons of Mass Media Destruction - PR
| June 2, 2003 “Today, by relaxing or eliminating its long-standing media ownership limits, the FCC unleashed its own weapons of mass destruction against competition, diversity of viewpoints, localism, creativity, and independence in our nation’s media.” More»
CCVM Files Reply Comments in FCC Media Ownership Proceeding - PR
| February 3, 2003 Evidence Submitted to FCC Proves Freedom of Expression, Quality, Creativity in Television Harmed by Concentrated Corporate Ownership. Public Interest Requires Retaining Media Ownership Limits and Ending Network Monopolization of Television Program Production. More»
CCVM Files Comments in FCC Media Ownership Proceeding - PR
| January 2, 2003 Freedom of Expression, Quality, Creativity in Television Harmed by Concentrated Corporate Ownership. Do Not Allow Network-Produced "Homogenized" Programming to Monopolize Airwaves, Center for the Creative Community Tells FCC. More»
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