Hints and tips:
...The FCC does not have such a well-defined mission....
...The FCC scrapped the doctrine during Ronald Reagan’s presidency in 1987, arguing it restricted the free-speech rights of broadcast journalists under the first amendment....
...Just one FCC board member, Dan Strumpf of the Wall Street Journal, voted against suspending the awards and has subsequently resigned from the board, according to two people familiar with the matter....
...“The FCC Board met on Saturday . . . and, after a lengthy discussion, regretfully decided to suspend the Human Rights Press Awards pending further review,” said Keith Richburg, the FCC’s president....
...Denise Ho, a well-known Hong Kong singer and opposition activist, and Margaret Ng, a former lawmaker, both former members of the news site’s board, were also arrested....
...I was on the board of Hong Kong’s world-famous FCC more than a decade ago, back when Hong Kong was still Hong Kong....
...compensation offered to Intelsat is an affront when compared to the values achieved in auctions of comparable spectrum across the globe over the past decade,” Mr Tepper wrote in a letter to the company’s board...
...The Pentagon’s technology advisory board warned this year this was likely to lead to China’s technology becoming dominant instead....
...A final decision rests with the US Federal Communications Commission but last year the FCC unanimously blocked another company, China Mobile, from operating in the US....
...But Ajit Pai, the Republican-leaning chairman of the FCC, isn’t the only man in town calling the shots on this deal....
...Mr Slim controls over half of Realia through his Mexican investment vehicle Inversora Carso and his ownership of Spanish construction firm FCC. And he has previously made efforts to own more of Realia....
...At the time of the FCC talk, which went ahead despite vociferous threats from Beijing and some Hong Kong officials, the HKNP was not an illegal party and the Hong Kong government had no legal basis to stop...
...Goldman Sachs has the finest collection of chief executive and board relationships of any company in the world....
...Theoretically then, the FCC would be far more likely to accept the proposal given two large operators were on board, paving the road for the three companies....
...Lehner, 72, said in a statement that he no longer had the confidence of major shareholders or the board....
...(WSJ) News Round-up Fox inches closer to winning UK backing for its takeover of Sky (FT) SoftBank looks to put $5bn staff incentive scheme into Vision Fund (FT) ‘New T-Mobile’ begins battle to win FCC...
...(FT) Communist party directives: A number of Hong Kong-listed groups have installed communist party committees to advise on their boards....
...A job for the board Prof Upton has helped design a board-level executive course and teaches a compulsory course on Saïd’s MBA....
...The Trump White House is drawing up plans for across-the-board deregulation, tax cuts and a new generation of defence contracts. The only question is at what speed....
...L1 Retail also named Karl-Heinz Holland, former chief executive of Lidl, to its advisory board....
...Ajit Pai, the new pro-business FCC chairman, seems happy to help big broadcasters....
...In fact, many FCC chairs have had industry backgrounds including both Obama FCC chairs who pushed approaches on net neutrality that industry loathed....
...The FCC’s five board members will vote on the proposal on February 26, when it is expected to be approved with three Democrats supporting against the opposition of two Republicans....
...He has spent this month negotiating with the regulator’s four other board members over changes to his initial proposal....
...Mr Proglio is on the boards of ABR Management, Dassault Aviation, French bank Natixis and Spanish construction group FCC....
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