A group of Senate and House Democrats are getting behind the FCC in pushing for rules that will force cable companies to open up the set-top box business. Marguerite Reardon Former senior reporter ...

The Federal Communications Commission should move forward as soon as possible with an ambitious proposal to "unlock" cable boxes. That's according to a coalition of 76 advocacy organizations, ...

The Federal Communications Commission today approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that seeks to give consumers more choices in the set-top boxes they use to watch cable TV. The vote was 3-2, ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted Thursday to formally consider rules that would make it easier for companies like Google and TiVo to manufacture pay-television boxes, which supporters ...

If FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has his way, most people who subscribe to cable will stop paying a monthly fee to rent a set-top box from their provider. As we've reported, about 99 percent of cable TV ...

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Raise your hand if you hate paying your cable provider a monthly fee to "rent" their mediocre cable boxes month after month. The FCC has been investigating potential ways to change up this particular ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted to allow a proposal for competition in the creation of set top boxes that are given by cable companies to provide access to the channels people ...

Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee declares state of emergency, travel ban ahead of blizzard Gov. Dan McKee on Sunday declared a state of emergency ahead of a blizzard that's forecast to drop 18 to 28 inches ...

The venerable cable set-top box is about to break the bonds of industry control and show up on retail shelves… but not all at once. “I wouldn’t call it a flood… we envision them popping up in retail,” ...

If FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has his way, most people who subscribe to cable will stop paying a monthly fee to rent a set-top box from their provider. As we've reported, about 99 percent of cable TV ...