After two weeks of dead air and hot air, Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) and News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) finally found enough good faith to reach a deal in “principle” late Saturday afternoon—putting three Fox stations and several cable nets back on the air for more than three million cable subs. The…

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowkski may want to lock the top execs of Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) and News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). in a room until they agree to a deal that puts Fox stations back on the air for 3 million subscribers but that’s not in his mandate. Tuesday afternoon he…

Updated Our old friends push and shove are back. Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) subs who rely on Fox stations in New York, Philadelphia and New Jersey face the prospect of dark TV screens instead of the Giants and the Phillies this weekend unless the cable operator and News Corp (NSDQ: NWS)…

Facing a tough crowd at the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Theater in LA this morning, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski tried to convince cablers his week-old “third way” proposal shouldn’t freak them out. responding to questions from NCTA’s Kyle McSlarrow, Genachoski said this is just the “pre-beginning” of finding the best way…

Caught between a previous regime’s decision on how to define broadband and a recent federal court decision that the Federal Communications Commission didn’t have the authority to regulate so-called net neutrality, Julius Genachowski is trying for a “third way.” The plan, outlined today in an 8-page document embedded below, tries…

By John Eggerton: FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski will unveil on May 6 the commission’s legal approach to clarifying its authority to regulate the Internet. A senior FCC official describes it as somewhere between a “weak Title I and overly burdensome Title II” approach. “The Chairman will seek to restore the…

Usually I watch Congressional hearings on webcasts, an amazing gift for those of us who reported before live streaming. Today through a fluke of my schedule and the postponement of the original hearing from March til today, I’m in the Russell Building for a key moment in the FCC’s National…

Julius Genachowski lives in the now and looks to the if/when. During a pointed Q&A with CEA head Gary Shapiro at CES, the still-new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission refused to give any ground to the idea that regulation is less needed or even irrelevant in a broadband world.…

B&C has the latest—and one of the best—in a wave of interviews marking the first month of Julius Genachowski’s tenure as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Read the original for a good FCC road map. A few of the highlights: —Kids’ programming: For Genachowski, it’s the “right time to…

President Barack Obama can’t get health care reform passed before the August recess but it looks like he will have one accomplishment: a full Federal Communications Commission. The U.S. Senate today confirmed by unanimous consent the nominations of Mignon Clyburn (pictured), a Democrat, and *Meredith* Attwell Baker, a Republican; the…

Julius Genachowski told the WSJ he learned the “power of pragmatism” from his time in the public and private sectors—along with “a respect for the power of private industry to create jobs, to generate economic growth.” That pragmatism shows up most clearly in what he didn’t say in his first…

Julius Genachowski started work as the head of the Federal Communications Commission this week and quickly named his key staff. Appointments include litigator and former prosecutor Ed Lazarus as chief of staff, and, from the digital side, Sherrese Smith, most recently VP and general counsel of Washington Post (NYSE: WPO)…

Julius Genachowski is closer to heading the Federal Communications Commission following approval Wednesday by the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee. Robert McDowell, currently the lone Republican FCC commissioner, also was approved for a second term. Both nominations now go to the full Senate for a vote; no sense of timing yet.…

After months of speculation, President Obama announced today that he has nominated Julius Genachowski to lead the Federal Communications Commission. The formal announcement comes nearly two months after Obama transition team sources said the former IAC (NSDQ: IACI) exec—a Harvard Law classmate of the president and a transition advisor—would be…

It’s now common knowledge that Obama’s pick for FCC head Julius Genachowski went to Harvard Law School with him, was an adviser to two FCC chairmen during the Clinton era (Reed Hundt and Bill Kennard), drafted the Obama Tech and Innovation plan, helped raise $500,000 for the President Elect, and…

Looks like Kevin Martin will be followed by Obama-Biden tech advisor Julius Genachowski as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. A source close to the transition team told the Wall Street Journal President-elect Barack Obama has picked Genachowski for the FCC job; observers also had him on the short list…

Yes, we need another investment/advisory fund for digital media…desperately. With every ex-AOLer on the advisory board. Snark aside, a new investment fund in digital media has been started by Julius Genachowski, former chief of business operations at IAC; Sean Greene, founder of The Away Network; and former AOL (NYSE: TWX)…