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Television has its place
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is famously against allowing the electronic media to invade the sanctity of his place of business. And he is famously ...
Full story No real surprises at DTV hearing
Senators routinely urged FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and outgoing NTIA head Meredith Atwell Baker to table all other concerns for the duration of the run-up ...Boehner hopes to ROMP back into the majority
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) would much prefer the title Speaker of the House, but at the moment a sizable deficit in sitting Republicans ...NAB takes its white space case to the Hill
Would be wireless innovators have run into a little problem: Their headlong assault on television spectrum keeps tripping over its own testing. ...Jockeying begins for Obama's seat
If Barack Obama (D-IL) is elected president this November, that will open up a seat in the US Senate for some lucky Illinois Democrat who ...Fundraising: House up, Senate down
Candidates for Congress have outdone themselves when it comes to off-year fundraising for the 2008 elections. The totals amount collected during the set-up year of ...Senate Commerce Committee tees up DTV
And it will also be teeing up FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and Meredith Attwell Baker, the Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Communications and Information, NTIA, ...Fox recon shot down on technicality
The indecency case against Fox regarding its 2003 broadcast of "Married by America," and its creative usage of whipped cream, has led the network to ...Broadcasters catch a break
The five FCC commissioners will convene the April Open Meeting next Thursday, 4/10/08, and the Sunshine Notice agenda is remarkably free of issues directly concerning the holders of television or radio licenses. ...ACLU backs Dorgan measure
XM/Sirius in talks with EB
The FCC Enforcement Bureau is said to be in negotiation with wedding partner wannabes XM and Sirius, according to a report in Communications Daily. At ...Dorgan runs into Catch-22
Lautenberg trying for one more encore
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) actually retired from the Senate once upon a time, but was tapped as a pinch-hitter for a trouble Democrat back in 2002 ...Enhanced disclosure software on display
The ink is barely dry on NAB's lawsuit attacking the FCC's new enhanced programming disclosure requirements, but already BroadView Software Inc. has a program to unveil at NAB2008 which it says will largely handle the reports. ...Like white on ice?
If it can't be tested successfully, should it nevertheless be unleashed license-free into the wide open market? That's what the NAB is wondering after yet ...
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mark walker
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07 May, 2008 08:25:00
Paul- you are awesome! I am so glad to see you again!
Ray Somich
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05 May, 2008 07:11:27
As always, John Gorman tells it like it is, whether we want to hear it or not. How sadly ironic that radio's success has been ...
Jack Messmer
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04 May, 2008 10:25:01
Thanks for your comment.
Does anyone else want to weigh in supporting this move? Do the sweeps really matter that much these days?
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Tim Keating
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02 May, 2008 07:44:28
Am I the only one bothered by Nielsen's move from February 2009 Sweep to March 2009?
The announcement from Nielsen came as a surprise. ...
Charlie Ferguson
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02 May, 2008 05:40:09
As a 2-book Condensed Market that doesn't even get trends from Arbitron, one can foresee some real struggles with some particularly aggressive agencies. Since ...