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Volume 23, Issue 150, Jim Carnegie, Editor & Publisher

Thursday Morning August 3rd, 2006

TV News ®

Sinclair raising dividend,
Q3 pacing stronger
Shareholders of Sinclair Broadcast Group are going to see a little extra in their next dividend check. The company announced that its board of directors has boosted the dividend by 25% to an annual payout of 50 cents per share, which CEO David Smith notes is an impressive yield of 6%. The increase comes as Sinclair reported a small increase in Q2 revenues and noted that it has been successful in continuing to cut costs and reduce its leverage. Sinclair isn't expecting the kind of boost from political advertising this year that some of its peers are hoping to enjoy - the hot political contests just aren't in Sinclair markets to the extent that they were in some past years. But company officials say political advertising is on track with expectations. Political is expected to contribute 4.2 million to Q3 revenues (compared to 200K a year ago) and the quarter is expected to be up 0.8-1.5% overall. On a same station basis, that is a stronger gain of 3.5-4.2%. Steve Marks, COO of Sinclair's Television Group, told analysts that July was up 1.4%, August is pacing up 2% and September is flat. "We are currently seeing strength in services, schools, telecom, movies and dining. Travel and leisure, entertainment and soft drinks are pacing down. We are seeing growth in domestic auto and slight weakness in imports," he said.

Google selling satellite radio ads; TV in the future
Google is moving ahead with its plans to become a middle man for ad sales across the full spectrum of media. Google-owned dMarc already connects buyers and sellers of spots on terrestrial radio and now it is moving into satellite radio. XM announced a deal to have dMarc sell commercial inventory on its non-music channels. "By providing access to XM's premier satellite audience, Google advertisers will have an easy way to target, schedule, deliver and measure satellite radio campaigns in a timely and efficient manner," said Ryan Steelberg, Google's head of radio operations. Google says advertisers will now have a simple, automated way to reach XM's millions of subscribers nationwide and XM will have access to Google's large and small advertisers to offer relevant, targeted messages to their subscribers. After months of trials, dMarc says a new platform is now in full production for its advertisers. In addition, customers of Google AdWords, its Internet advertising marketplace, will be able to place terrestrial and satellite radio spots when the dMarc platform is integrated into AdWords, which is targeted for the fourth quarter of this year.

TVBR observation: From the time it bought dMarc early this year (1/18/06 TVBR #12), Google has made it clear that terrestrial radio was just the beginning. It paid 102 million for dMarc, but the payoff for management and former investors could grow beyond one billion if certain targets are met. dMarc has been working to make its system compatible with software from vendors besides its own Scott Studios. Television is also on the drawing board. In other words, Google doesn't want to be seen as just a giant player in Internet advertising - it wants to be a one-stop shopping center for advertisers to buy all types of media. Some people in radio, TV and print may see that as a threat, giving Google too much clout, but others hope it just means that buying and selling advertising becomes simpler and grows the pie for everyone. Google selling satellite radio ads; TV in the future. TVBR last word of caution is to go slow and do your own research on all the companies getting into this inventory business. We will have more on this issue of Google but for now TVBR would like your comments along with a photo, email to tvnews@rbr.com

Telecomma? Lengthy pause in store for Stevens?
The main thrust of the Ted Stevens telecom update is to grease the wheels for telephone companies to go into direct competition with cable companies in the MVPD business. However, both the telecoms and cable want to do so without the enforcment of network neutrality principles. While there is general agreement about allowing MVPD competition, the net neutrality issue has inspired stiff and at least partially bipartisan resistance, imposing the need for a 60-vote supermajority to get the bill to the floor. It looks like the prospects for that happening before the Senate adjourns for the remainder of August are in the slim-to-none category. According to Roll Call, one of the obstacles Stevens is facing is coming from his own party. Some of his colleagues, locked in tight re-election struggles, are using telecom money to fill their campaign coffers, a source which figures to dry up if they get there way on the Hill now. This group would prefer to leave the bill alone until November.

Martin gets some FAM-mail
Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) was able to collect 84 congressional signatures on a letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, reminding him that Hinchey's Future of American Media (FAM) Caucus wants an open and transparent process when the Commission looks at revising media ownership rules this year. The letter begins with a simple request. "As the Federal Communications Commission begins its review of rules governing our nation's broadcast media ownership, we write to ask you to conduct the proceedings in an open and transparent way by fully disclosing the proposed rule changes and holding a series of public hearings on the proposal." Hinchey praised the FCC's plan to make the proceeding a prominent feature of fcc.gov, as well as its plans to take the proceeding out into the public, but added that "...we strongly believe that this does not go far enough. Indeed, the FCC has the opportunity and the responsibility to get it right this time by scheduling an extensive, national series of town hall meetings during this round of discussion, both in major media markets and small rural towns, to collect empirical data and conduct a thorough analysis on the state of media ownership and consolidation."

TVBR observation: Over on the Senate side of the Capitol, Byron Dorgan (D-ND) was able to get an amendment tacked on to the Ted Stevens (R-AK) telecom bill which would force the FCC to disclose any changes it plans to implement to the Commerce Committee prior to acting. But the Stevens bill appears to be in for a delay, so there's no telling how this will go down.

Wall Street Media Business Report TM

Q2 2006 Conference Calls
Q2 up slightly for Sinclair
Automotive was down, but strong local sales pushed Sinclair revenues to a 0.4% gain in Q2 to 163.8 million. Local gained 3.6%, while national was down 9.6%. The key automotive ad category was down 3% for the quarter. Sinclair reported increased ad spending in the services, telecom, retain, schools and restaurant categories. In addition to auto, there was softness in fast food, travel & leisure, Internet, paid programming and entertainment. "For the sixth consecutive quarter, we have reduced our year-over-year television operating expenses," declared CEO David Smith. And he noted that Sinclair had reduced its debt by buying back 14 million bucks worth of its bonds during the quarter. On the bottom line, earnings per share were 12 cents in Q2, beating the Thomson/First Call consensus by a penny.

Time Warner beats estimates
Investors cheered as Time Warner rebounded from a loss a year ago and posted a one billion bucks profit for Q2, beating Wall Street estimates. The new that got a lot of attention from the TW conference call yesterday was the decision to offer AOL email accounts for free to people who subscribe to other broadband services in an effort to hold onto Internet market share for ad sales. For TVBR readers, the area of greatest interest at TW is its Networks division (Turner Broadcasting, HBO & The WB Network) Revenues rose 9% to 2.7 billion, reflecting higher subscription and advertising revenues - including the consolidation of Court TV (65 million). Subscription revenues climbed 9% . Advertising revenues were up 8%, led by 11% growth at Turner, including Court TV, offset partly by a 9% decrease at The WB Network. Content revenues increased 7%, due primarily to higher ancillary sales of HBO's original programming. Operating income before depreciation and amortization climbed 9% to 696 million.

Granite on growth track
Granite Broadcasting CEO Don Cornwell says Q3 revenues should be up 10-12% after his company reported a gain of 0.8% to 26.9 million in Q2, which he said was the most challenging quarter that Granite faced this year. Those figures exclude any results for KBWB-TV San Francisco, which is being treated as an asset "held for sale." After scrapping a deal last month to sell both KBWB and WMYD-TV Detroit, Cornwell is upbeat about WMYD as revenues have been increasing and the station will soon swap its WB affiliation for the new MyNetworkTV. But he is still working to sell the San Francisco station and re-order Granite's balance sheet. One analyst noted that the bridge loan which enabled Granite to make a bond interest payment and close on the purchase of WBNG-TV Binghamton/Elmira, NY comes due the middle of this month, so look for more news from Granite soon.

Ad Business Report TM

Tequila ads invite debate
Patron Tequila has launched new TV, outdoor and print ads that direct people to an interactive website where they can weigh in on topical issues, many of them of the humorous nature. The campaign created by The Richards Group pitches the idea that Patron is "simply perfect," thus the website is simplyperfect.com. Visitors will be asked to vote on such weighty issues as vinyl vs. digital or book vs. movie, while being reminded that "Some perfection is debatable. Some is not." The TV ads are currently airing on cable nets, such as Comedy Central, E!, Golf channel, Logo, SciFi and Bravo.

How I spent my summer vacation as an ad
Would you like to have a free rental car for your next vacation? Who wouldn't? There is a catch. The car will be wrapped in advertising. The idea for this venture came from Arizona State University student Eric Malloff and the Tribune newspaper for the East Valley-Scottsdale area of suburban Phoenix reports that two rental car companies have signed up for a pilot project this fall. Alamo/National will offer some of the rolling ad cars to customers in Phoenix, as will Fox car rentals in Los Angeles. Malloff, who has raised a quarter-million in start-up capital, told the newspaper he is talking with a major beverage company, which he declined to name, about being the first advertiser.

TVBR observation: Our guess is that the rental car companies won't have much trouble finding customers willing to take the free cars, instead of the ones you have to pay for. Unless you're going to a family wedding or something, who cares if a bunch of strangers see you driving around in a car wrapped with advertising? Besides, it will be easy to spot in a crowded parking lot. Judging the effectiveness for the advertiser won't be easy, but it is a unique niche that should get them noticed.

Media Business Report TM

Happy days for Mel
Unlike XM Satellite Radio, which lowered its guidance for the rest of the year after hitting some potholes in Q2, Sirius Satellite Radio raised its full-year guidance after reporting strong Q2 results. Instead of 600 million in revenues this year, Sirius is expecting 615 million. Instead of over 6.2 million subscribers by year end, Sirius has now set the target at 6.3 million. And Sirius is not encountering the churn problem that has hit XM, so Sirius is projecting that its monthly churn rate will hold steady at 1.8%. So CEO Mel Karmazin was a happy guy as he discussed the quarter with analysts in his quarterly conference call. He proudly crowed that Sirius is beating XM in the retail category, while building subscriber additions from its OEM auto sales as well. Karmazin noted that some analysts believe the Howard Stern effect will only last a few quarters, but he insists that Stern and other Sirius content will give his satellite company a long-term advantage over XM. Karmazin is so confident that he assured Wall Street that Sirius will hit these aggressive targets: One billion in revenues in 2007, three billion in revenue in 2010, cash-flow positive in 2007 (possibly in Q4 of this year) and one billion of cash flow in 2010. Meanwhile, he played down the NAB's request to the FCC this week for a recall of all XM and Sirius plug-and-play receivers that violate emission standards. Karmazin insisted that a recall would "not be in the public interest at all" and there! are more simple solutions.

TVBR observation: Mel was also excited about plans for a Q4 marketing push featuring Howard Stern to convince his millions of fans who haven't yet done so to buy satellite radio receivers and subscribe to Sirius. He said this will be the first holiday sales season with Stern officially pitching Sirius. It seems to us he did a pretty good job unofficially last year plugging Sirius time and time again on his syndicated radio show. Back then he had millions of listeners. Now he has thousands - and they are the ones who already have Sirius subscriptions. Just what can the "King of All Media" possibly do now that could come close to matching the hype of last year?

Publisher Note: Why is Mighty Mel happy? You should be happy too because when it comes to marketing Stern and Sirius this Christmas season the Zen Master will most likely be using the tube, print and Internet. He cannot use radio, Da. This is the push that Sirius needs to be taken serious and marketing will play a major part in getting consumers to buy Sirius over XM. This is the final push Karmazin needs as his, Stern and Sirius success depends on it. Do not be surprised to see a campaign begin after Labor Day.

Media Markets & Money TM

New Vision gets WIAT's ERP
Media General has completed its four market sell-off, liquidating WIAT-TV Birmingham AL and KIMT-TV Mason City IA for about 35M. The buyer is the third iteration of New Vision Television, headed by Jason Elkin. New Vision plans to make the two CBS affiliates the cornerstone of a new group they hope to expand to 10-12 stations within 12 months. Elkin said, "We are extremely pleased to acquire two CBS affiliates from Media General. We have been impressed with the substantial improvements that Media General has made to the operations of both stations and with the overall quality of their employees. It's great to begin the newest New Vision platform with network affiliates in dynamic growing markets like Birmingham and Mason City. We look forward to growing New Vision Television with strategic television acquisitions across the country." MG, which was looking to exceed 100M with the sell-off, easily surpassed that figure. It previously shipped KWCH-TV Wichita KS and its satellites to Schurz for 73M and sent WDEF-TV Chattanooga to Morris Multimedia for 22M, bringing its total four-market take to 130M.

Washington Media Business Report TM

Long live WIVI
Rox Radio Enterprises is a case in point on the importance of keeping your FCC records up to date and on the up and up. At license renewal time for WIVI-FM in Charlotte Amalie VI, it faced a multifaceted petition to deny from one of its own shareholders, Bryan D. Hollenbaugh. For starters, Hollenbaugh apparently did not file his complaint correctly, and Rox was permitted by the FCC to submit a late objection since they were at first unaware that the petition even existed. Let's get to the particulars. Hollenbaugh claimed he owned 20% of the licensee, but was listed with only 8%. Rox said that was because of share dilution, and the FCC said it was a private matter for the courts, not the FCC. Hollenbaugh said that there wasn't enough news and programming aimed specifically at West Indians. The FCC said programming is at the discretion of the licensee, and the complainant provided no evidence of an actionable problem. Hollenbaugh claimed there were no West Indian employees, a violation of EEO regulations. The FCC noted that the absence of a certain minority was not proof of a violation of those regulations, and further noted that Rox's EEO compliance was up-to-date and thorough. Finally, Hollenbaugh claimed the station exceeded allowable RF levels. Rox argued that it was in compliance with the exception of one hot spot which was virtually inaccessible to the public and station employees alike. Rox had the records to answer all complaints. Petition denied.

Cable Business Report TM

TBS begins iTunes sales
Turner Broadcasting System has been offering free downloads of some of its programming on Apple's iTunes, but now it is time to see if consumers will pay up. Hit programming from CNN, Adult Swim and Cartoon Network is now being offered for purchase and download a 1.99 per show. CNN will provide original episodes of CNN Presents, including "Taming the Beast: Inside the War on Cancer," "The Fight Over Faith" and "Captured: Inside the Army's Secret School." Drawing from the world's largest cartoon library, Cartoon Network will provide episodes from the networks series Johnny Bravo (season one). Adult Swim, Cartoon Networks' late night sister service, will provide episodes from original productions, including Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Venture Bros., and Sealab 2021 (season three).

Entertainment Media Business Report TM

CBS sets fall premiere schedule
Hoping to repeat as the #1 network, CBS announced fall season premieres for 20 of its 22 primetime series for the ratings week of September 18. Reality series "Survivor: Cook Islands" and "The Amazing Race 10" will get a headstart the previous week. With so many established shows returning, the CBS lineup has few newbies: "The Class" on Monday, "Smith" on Tuesday and "Shark" on Thursday. following the return of TV's #1 show "CSI." Here is the CBS premiere schedule.
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Ratings & Research

Fox has gotta love TiVo
Summer TV viewing for TiVo owners is reality TV, so two nights of the Fox series "So You Think You Can Dance" claimed the top two spots in the weekly TiVo ratings. CBS, which won the Nielsen ratings overall with its scripted series repeats at the top, was right behind Fox in the TiVo rankings, but not with the same shows. Rather, TiVo users preferred the CBS reality show "Big Brother: All-Stars."
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Younger demo more open to new tech
Forrester Research has released its latest study on technology adoption, and it will probably come as no surprise that the cutting edge is found in the 18-26 Gen Y age group. At over 12 hours a week, they've already shown themselves to spend 28% more time on the Internet per week than Gen Xers, who are hardly computer illiterate, and they more than double usage totals for the 51-61 segment of the boomer group. Forrester calls the young group "net natives," and says it actually spends more time on the Internet than it does with television. It is also said to be more susceptible to advertising than older demos, and can be reached via mobile communication devices.

TVBR observation: Radio and television are both going digital, and it will be imperative to the future viability of broadcasters to tailor aspects of this conversion to the tastes and needs of Gen Y (and those even younger in line behind them), and, even more important, to make sure they find out about it.

Stock Talk

Thanks P&G and TW
Strong earnings reports from Procter & Gamble and Time Warner gave a boost to the entire market. The Dow Industrials rose 74 points, or 0.7%, to 11,200.

TV stocks were mostly higher. Hearst-Argyle led the way, up 3.8%. Time Warner rose 2.6% on its good Q2 results.

Stocks

**Here's how stocks fared on Wednesday**
Company	Symbol	Close		Change	Company	Symbol	Close		Change
Acme	ACME		5.22	-0.03	LIN TV	TVL		6.70	+0.15
Belo	BLC		16.42	+0.32	McGraw-Hill	MHP		57.75	+1.33
CBS CI. B	CBS		27.15	+0.32	Media General	MEG		37.79	+0.76
CBS CI. A	CBSa		27.21	+0.36	Meredith	MDP		47.48	+0.36
Clear Channel	CCU		29.38	+0.43	News Corp.	NWS		19.88	-0.13
Disney	DIS		29.80	+0.45	Nexstar	NXST		4.13	-0.08
Emmis	EMMS		14.83	+0.05	NY Times	NYT		22.12	-0.16
Entravision	EVC		7.59	-0.01	Ion Media	ION		0.93	-0.01
Fisher	FSCI		40.19	-0.05	Saga Commun.	SGA		7.63	+0.05
Gannett	GCI		53.52	+1.04	SBS	SBSA		4.70	-0.03
Gen. Electric	GE		32.60	+0.04	Scripps	SSP		42.80	+0.45
Granite	GBTVK		0.12	-0.03	Sinclair	SBGI		8.23	-0.09
Gray	GTN		6.36	-0.18	Time Warner	TWX		16.67	+0.42
Gray, C1. A	GTNa		6.92	-0.23	Tribune	TRB		30.13	+0.18
Hearst-Argyle	HTV		20.84	+0.76	Univision	UVN		33.50	+0.03
Journal Comm.	JRN		10.69	+0.22	Wash. Post	WPO		758.50	-6.50
Lincoln Natl.	LNC		57.06	+0.57	Young	YBTVA		3.06	-0.04

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TV Media Moves

CDO for
NBC Uni
What's a CDO? That's Chief Digital Officer. George Kliavkoff gets the newly created title at NBC Universal, joining the company from Major League Baseball Advance Media, where he was Exec. VP. He now reports to Beth Comstock, President of NBC Uni Digital Media.

Upped at USA
USA Network has promoted Lindsay Sloane and Michael Sluchan to Vice President, original scripted series programming. Sloane will continue to oversee production of "Monk" and Sluchan "The Dead Zone," while both also work on developing new shows.

Below the Fold

Wall Street Media Business Report
Q2 up slightly for Sinclair
Reported increased spending in telecom, retain, &d restaurant...

Ad Business Report
How I spent my summer
Vacation as an ad, there is a catch...

Media Business Report
Happy days for Mel
Unlike XM Satellite Radio the Zen Master is looking forward to Christmas...

Media Markets & Money
New Vision gets WIAT's ERP
Media General has completed its four market sell-off...

Entertainment Media
Business Report
CBS sets fall premiere schedule
Hoping to repeat as the #1 has rolled out their line up...

Ratings & Research
Fox has gotta love TiVo
Owners is reality TV and Fox has the dance tune picks...

Stations for Sale

New York City
2-LPTVs reaching 12 million people $10 mil for BOTH.
Philadelphia
$2.5 million - George Kimble
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Azteca powers up
in Seattle
Azteca America announced the launch of a new full power affiliated station this week in Seattle, the #28 Hispanic market in the US. According to Nielsen Media Research it has 78,000 Hispanic television households, representing 0.69% of the Hispanic total. The addition of KHCV-TV (Ch. 45) fills out the top 30 US Hispanic markets for Azteca America. "Now that we are in the top 30 markets, we're already setting our sites on the top 40," said Luis Echarte, Chairman of Azteca America.

Kellogg expected
to raise prices
The squeeze seems to be on in Battle Creek. Facing increasing costs in the commodities it needs for production, cereal giant Kellogg is feeling a pinch in the profit margin which will require attention this fall. According to AdAge.com, it is expected to raise prices and cut package sizes. Its chief competitors are expected to follow suit. While this not be popular when members of the media employment pool head to the supermarket, the plus side is that it was chosen over the other common alternative when this situation arises. That would be cutting marketing budgets. According to analysts, Kellogg's approach will be on a brand-by-brand basis rather than an across-the-board basis, minimizing risk. It is also believed that General Mills, silent for the time being, will be more than happy to follow Kellogg's lead.

TVBR Radar 2006

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PTC goes after CBS
"CBS is two-faced," claims Parents Television Council President L. Brent Bozell. "The company apologized profusely after the incident happened and reminded the public last week that it had apologized. What it's not telling the public in its press releases is that its lawsuit maintains there was nothing indecent about Janet Jackson exposing herself during the football game with millions of children watching."

TVBR observation: CBS did apologize. It was as surprised as anybody by Jackson's actions, and CBS agreed with most that the so-called wardrobe malfunction was in extremely poor taste. Many thought the entire Super Bowl halftime show preceding the incident was in bad taste. The question remains, however, if it was actionably indecent. Was it "nudity," as Bozell seems to imply? If the government is going to start tossing around six- and seven-figure fines and put broadcast licenses in jeopardy, at a minimum it must clearly define the crime. That does not mean checking in with Bozell or anyone else for a review. We'll be very interested to hear what the courts have to say on this matter.
08/02/06 TVBR #149

Clear Channel stock:
Wall Street darling or dog?
Jim Boyle, at CL King, has issued a sell call for the stock of Clear Channel Communications, Marci Ryvicker back at Wachovia Securities has reiterated her view that Clear Channel is a buy. Victor Miller at Bear Stearns is also out with a note tapping Clear Channel as his top pick in radio.

TVBR observation: So who is correct in darling or dog? Depends on your view of the company management as these executives will set the course on darling or dog. That is what the Wall Street guru's do not say. Companies are not bad just some that run them. So judge the executives on your decision as this goes for all companies not just Clear Channel.
08/01/06 TVBR #148

TVBR observation:
Thank you CBS
The move by CBS to take the FCC to court over its fine for Janet Jackson's Super Bowl flash should be welcomed by everyone in broadcasting, from shock-jocks to conservative Religious stations. At long last licensees are going to get a clear definition of what does or does not constitute indecency - and whether the law that prohibits the broadcasting of indecent material between 6:00 am and 10:00 pm is constitutional.
08/01/06 TVBR #148

New electronic buying systems
Seems there are plenty of new entrants in the electronic buying systems marketplace. Some have more to offer than others. We asked Kathy Crawford, MindShare President/Local Broadcast, what she thinks about, and she wants from these systems. I have been pitched pretty much all of the electronic media systems out there and they fall into essentially two categories, online auctions and then there is the full blown systems.
7/31/06 TVBR #147

Analyst slams Nexstar buy
For several quarterly conference calls, Nexstar Broadcasting Group CEO Perry Sook has told analysts the company is in talks to divest some of its TV stations and reduce its debt leverage. But no sales have yet been announced. Rather, Nexstar announced a deal this week to buy two more stations for 56 million bucks. Bear Stearns analyst Victor Miller says that is "sending the wrong signal" and he has cut his rating on Nexstar's stock to "underperform."

TVBR observation: Small to medium TV operator's face the same problem radio has been facing now for the past three years which is when the big get clipped it runs down hill. Being in the public eye is not health it you do not have the leverage with various assets to help during hard times. TVBR will say as we have said to radio small public companies, Go Private. Key to being in the public eye is Branding and Leverage. Yep, making money helps.
07/28/06 TVBR #146

Reps try to give cable choices
on consumer choice
Daniel Lipinski (D-IL) and Tom Osborne (R-NE) have teamed up to offer The Family Choice Act of 2006, which if enacted would give cable operators three options to allow families to get the kind of cable programming they want.

TVBR observation: Without even getting into the fuzziness of the regulations themselves, each cable operator who accepts that option would be at the mercy of cable program providers who are under no such restrictions, and we're not just talking MTV, FX and Comedy Central. If someone slips up on ESPN, or even on C-SPAN is a small town cable guy going to be ready to cough up 325K? We don't think so.
07/28/06 TVBR #146

Ownership comments
already flowing
5,357 comments have already been entered in the FCC database under Docket 06-121, referencing the FCC's proceeding on media ownership rules and regulations. We sampled quite a few of these comments, which have come in from all over the country. Almost all of them say this: "Dear Commissioners: Please don't allow more media consolidation.

TVBR observation: Have mouse, will comment. We think comments on any topic would carry much more weight if they are original, and there may well be original thoughts contained somewhere within the pile of entries. Perhaps the FCC should maintain two response piles, one for obvious click-and-send entries and another for actual self-written comments.
07/27/06 TVBR #145

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