Politics
Communications: Agency may have its first GOP majority in eight years, making it easier for its chairman to pursue deregulation.
April 7, 2001
Kathleen Abernathy, a Republican commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission, said Thursday that she planned to leave the agency Dec. 9.
Nov. 18, 2005
Entertainment & Arts
Wrong number: It seems a bit daft, but the Gloucestershire, England, phone book lists Queen Elizabeth’s daughter, Princess Anne, under H as “HRH Princess Anne, Mrs.
Nov. 13, 1989
Business
* Republican Kathleen Abernathy left the Federal Communications Commission, leaving the five-member commission with two open seats and giving Democrats a temporary 2-1 majority. * Alltel Corp., the largest U.S. rural telephone service company, said a $4.9-billion deal to spin off its telephone division to shareholders would enable it to expand its core wireless business.
Dec. 10, 2005
Regulation: The commission’s Republican majority tends to lean toward support of free markets. Compromises are likely.
Feb. 21, 2002
Archives
On the eve of their vote, four FCC commissioners speak about the meaning of their task.
June 2, 2003
World & Nation
Kathleen Casey, staff director of the Senate Banking Committee, was nominated by President Bush on Thursday to succeed fellow Republican Cynthia A.
May 19, 2006
California
An 80-year-old woman was killed Tuesday afternoon in a fire that gutted her home in Sierra Madre, authorities said.
Dec. 17, 2003
The Federal Communications Commission will take weeks to complete its review of media titan News Corp.’
May 31, 2001
As any insomniac who has listened to a TV station’s early morning sign-off knows, broadcasters are licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to operate “in the public interest.”
March 2, 2002