[World Business, Section W.] Ruling Includes Canal in Vivendi Deal French broadcast regulators approved the inclusion of the Canal Plus pay-television group in the $34 billion acquisition of Seagram by Vivendi.
Ms. Wong said the program and its hour of broadcast had been approved by ABC's department of broadcast standards.
The broadcast committee also approved the use of tiny cameras mounted on the bill of the umpires' caps during nine preseason games.
The National Football League's broadcast committee has approved a one-year experiment to expand the number of Sunday afternoon doubleheaders that can be seen when local teams are playing home games.
This tape was then approved for broadcast by BBC bosses.
Mr. Lynch took the material back, made changes (he added scenes that would never have been approved for broadcast), and came up with a picture that intrigues audiences because it's the movie he wanted to make.
Copps also takes issue with another provision of Martin's plan, which says that in order for a newspaper-broadcast merger to be approved, a paper in financial distress must show it will invest in newsroom operations.
"Even though Arrai is a private channel, it would not have been able to broadcast had it not been approved by the Syrian regime," she said.
Federal officials today approved the largest broadcast merger in history -- Viacom's $30 billion acquisition of CBS -- just a day after two other media giants resolved a dispute that was, in large part, a byproduct of consolidation in the broadcasting and cable industry.
While the FCC has approved a new broadcast standard (ATSC 3.0) that will support 4K UHD picture quality, there are no 4K over-the-air TV broadcasts available today — and that won't likely change for some time.
About 130 stations have acquired licenses for the technology the Federal Communications Commission approved for digital broadcasts, and 20 have actually begun broadcasting, according to iBiquity Digital, the company that developed the technology.
