Results tagged “thefcc”

The FCC took a break from fining people for cursing and investigated local news programs who aired video news releases instead of, you know, actual news. Two of the stations that were caught doing it were KGO and KPIX. Whoops. KRON did it too but for some reason isn't mentioned, but then again, nobody watches KRON anyways

Three thumbs up!! TiVo's gotten approval to allow subscribers to email recorded shows. Various entities in the television industry objected, as usual - you know, blah blah blah, proprietary rights, blah blah blah, piracy hurts everyone, blah blah, corporate profits down, etc. The FCC, though, found there were enough privacy protections already encoded in TiVo programming that it was unlikely that anyone would be able to, say, mass-mail copies of Amish in the City in violation of the UPN's copyrights.