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110th Congress, Part II: DTV, DTV and more DTV
Four key Commerce Committee telecom policy wonks from both houses of Congress met with broadcasters at yesterday's NAB State Leadership Conference and confirmed that this ...
Full story Honig call for multilingual EAS DH
Natural disasters don't care what language its victims speak, making it all the more necessary for the nation's communications system to take into account non-English ...Stevens in for another tilt
What were you doing on 11/18/23? Don't remember? Neither, we believe, does Ted Stevens (R-AK), who was busy being born that day. That means he ...Ancient McCain FCC dealings dredged up
Broadband bill in the works in the House
It doesn't even have a number yet, but a draft version of H.R. ___ is on the table for public discussion by Ed Markey's (D-MA) ...Promises, promises
It's easy to say you'll do something, and it's another to actually do it. The NAB would like the FCC to enforce a promise made ...Battling meetings
The NAB and the FCC will be at loggerheads next Tuesday 2/26/08. The FCC is holding its February Open Meeting on that date, and the ...Supremes get set to decide to decide
There's a new watchdog in town
The mission of the National Hispanic Media Coalition is to "advance Latino employment and programming equity throughout the entertainment industry and to promote telecommunications policies ...Localism comments solicited
The FCC's NPRM on enhancing broadcast localism has officially made it into the Federal Register under MB Docket No. 04-233. The official publication date was ...Clear Channel hedging its bets?
Among the biggest political donors in the broadcast world for the 2008 election cycle is Clear Channel. Some will be surprised at where the radio/outdoor ...NAB commerce in campaign cash covers the bases
In last week's story of National Association of Broadcaster campaign contributions, we noted that among the beneficiaries of the NAB's generosity were prominent members of ...Commerce Chairs go straight to the top on DTV
Senate Commerce Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-HI) and House Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-MA) aren't messing around. They would like an interagency task force put ...Session cancelled
The Senate Commerce Committee has called off today's hearing on the DTV transition, which would have come just 24 hours after a similar session in ...A Martin, a Baker, a testimony-maker (or two)
The Commerce Committees have lined up their DTV witnesses, and the two key government representatives will be doing double duty. The hearing today at the ...
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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 ...