Kerry Urges Federal Action In Cable Dispute
From this morning's Earlybird:
• Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., "urged federal regulators to intervene in a fee dispute between Cablevision Systems Corp. and Walt Disney Co.'s ABC television station in New York before viewers lose access to programming," Bloomberg News reports.
• "The chairs of the Rural Telecommunications Task Force are circulating a letter to colleagues expressing concern about recent changes to the Commerce Department's process for awarding broadband stimulus money," The Hill reports.
• "With Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) set to unveil patent reform legislation as early as" today, "the Coalition for Patent Fairness is coming out strongly against the proposed compromise," Roll Call (subscription) reports. "After years of negotiations failing to come to fruition, the high-tech group says the recently announced agreement is worse than existing patent law."
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