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Univision launches bilingual digital network service

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • November 2 2012

Spanish language broadcaster Univision extended its reach to smart phone users on Monday with the debut of UVideos, a new digital network service that will provide more than 1,500 hours of long-form programming and 200 short video clips free of charge to users through a downloadable mobile application

KDDI, Sumitomo bid $2.7 billion for control of Japanese cable operator

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • Japan, USA
  • -
  • October 26 2012

On Wednesday, Japanese wireless operator KDDI joined forces with Sumitomo on a US$2.7 billion bid for the remaining shares of Jupiter Telecommunications that would give the partners joint control of more than half of Japan’s cable television market

FCC to permit encryption of basic cable signals

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 19 2012

By a vote of 5-0, the FCC voted last Friday to allow encryption of basic cable services on digital cable systems while adopting certain protections to enable cable subscribers who receive basic services without set-top boxes to view encrypted signals

FCC adopts rules to facilitate wireless broadband use of WCS spectrum

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 19 2012

AT&T was given the go-ahead to use auctioned channels in the wireless communications service (WCS) band that have lain fallow for 15 years, as the FCC amended its rules on Wednesday to enable the usage of 30 MHz of WCS spectrum for wireless broadband purposes while protecting the digital satellite radio operations of Sirius XM

Genachowski touts FCC efforts in addressing wireless spectrum crunch

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 12 2012

In a speech to students at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski cited the FCC’s progress in providing the industry with the additional spectrum it needs for wireless broadband services, as he asserted that the FCC is on track to meet its goal of “freeing up 300 MHz of spectrum by 2015”

FCC allows cable program access rules to expire

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 12 2012

Pointing to a national multichannel video program distribution marketplace in which cable operators now play a less dominant role, the FCC decided unanimously last Friday to allow provisions of its program access rules that prohibit exclusive contracts to expire

Bills to bring parity to digital music royalty rates introduced in Congress

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 28 2012

Internet radio firms such as Pandora applauded the introduction of parallel bills in the House and Senate last Friday that would qualify web radio services for the same digital music royalty rates paid by cable and satellite providers

Verizon to pay $250 million to settle TiVo patent claims

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 28 2012

Digital video recorder (DVR) pioneer TiVo scored another key victory in its quest to protect its patents as Verizon Communications agreed to pay $250.4 million to settle claims that Verizon had infringed upon TiVo’s DVR “time warp” technology

SEC issues proposed rules under JOBS Act eliminating prohibition of general advertising for private offerings

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 10 2012

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”), signed by President Barack Obama on April 5, 2012, directs the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) to adopt rules implementing several provisions of the law affecting offerings of securities (including by private equity and hedge funds) exempt from registration under the federal securities laws

Liberty boosts Sirius stake, seeks FCC consent to assume control

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 24 2012

Liberty Media moved closer to its goal of acquiring control of Sirius XM Radio with the $234.3 million purchase of additional shares to raise its stake to 48 and with the filing of documents with the FCC last Friday that request consent for Liberty to assume control of the satellite radio service provider

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