It’s no secret that Janet Jackson paid a steep price when her 2004 Super Bowl Halftime Show performance alongside newly solo Justin Timberlake concluded with a “wardrobe malfunction” on live television. The half-million dollar fine imposed by the FCC was a slap on the wrist, but the damage inflicted on Jackson’s career is arguably still being felt, 14 years later. According to a new story on Huffington Post, that’s because Les Moonves, the CEO of CBS (which aired the Super Bowl), had a years-long vendetta again Jackson for “embarrassing...
- 9/7/2018
- by Amelia McDonell-Parry
- Rollingstone.com
It’s the end of an era for cable TV: The industry’s biggest trade group — recently renamed Ncta – The Internet & Television Association — said today that it will stop sponsoring Intx, the annual gathering that was a must-go for industry moguls for decades when it was known as the Cable Show. “We are now exploring new and better ways to tell our story, to gather our community, to advance our growth and present our vision of the future,” CEO Michael Powell, the former FCC…...
- 9/28/2016
- Deadline TV
Company execs say legislative proposal could easily be exploited
A top Amazon executive and the CEO of an Internet shopping site are delivering the same warning to House and Senate Republicans proposing their own version of net neutrality to preempt the FCC’s stronger plan.
Putting up a caution sign, they say there are way too many ways for big Internet service providers to evade the limits.
Also Read: FCC Schedules Net Neutrality Vote for February
“There is widespread acceptance of the need for government action to ensure Internet openness,” said Paul Misener, Amazon’s Vice President for Global Public Policy.
A top Amazon executive and the CEO of an Internet shopping site are delivering the same warning to House and Senate Republicans proposing their own version of net neutrality to preempt the FCC’s stronger plan.
Putting up a caution sign, they say there are way too many ways for big Internet service providers to evade the limits.
Also Read: FCC Schedules Net Neutrality Vote for February
“There is widespread acceptance of the need for government action to ensure Internet openness,” said Paul Misener, Amazon’s Vice President for Global Public Policy.
- 1/20/2015
- by Ira Teinowitz
- The Wrap
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