Intelligence Briefs

At the bottom of the Great Recession, radio had lost $5 billion of revenue, from over $20 billion in 2007 to

Part one of this guide, “Obtaining Information from FCC.gov With

The television industry is experiencing more consolidation than ever. Recently, Yahoo shut down IntoNow and

The National Alliance of State Broadcasters Associations began its life in 1985 as the Broadcast Executive Directors Association or “BEDA.” Even before the formality of incorporation, the Executive Directors of the State Broadcasters Associations had a long history of collaboration and interaction going back to the 1930s with the formation of the first State Broadcasters Associations.

As a good federal agency, the FCC is adept at producing prodigious amounts of paper and for decades it has been a worthy customer of the Government Printing Office. But due to the rise, complexity and increasing utility of the internet, much of the Commission’s commerce has moved online. If you have business to conduct with the Commission, unfamiliarity with the electronic transactional environment in which the FCC operates can severely hamper your efficiency, or worse, place you at a serious disadvantage.

Support for the Local Radio Freedom Act continues to be strong in the House and the Senate. Currently, more than 186 members of the House are on record in opposition to a performance tax. However, the NJBA is convinced that a stealth attack on free over-the-air-radio is very possible. In New Jersey, Local radio is very important and the prospect of a Performance Tax is akin to a Death Tax for broadcasters.

There’s been an open debate within the Streaming Audio, Advertising and Radio community for

At the National Alliance of State Broadcasters Associations (NASBA) meetings on 2/24, RBR-TVBR

At the annual NASBA conference in DC 2/24, there was an EAS Summit to go over some of the big issues broadcasters are facing on a state-wide and nationwide basis. Under laws going back to 1951, radio and television stations are already required to participate in the national Emergency Alert System and many stations – called Primary Entry Points (PEP) – have protected, government‐funded circuits connecting them to emergency command centers in Washington and in their states.

As we experience here in Tennessee every day and for the past

In this world of acronyms that we find ourselves living in, BEA (Broadcast Education Association) is one acronym broadcasters would be wise to become better acquainted with or, better yet, become a corporate associate member of.I’m honored to hold one of the two “Professional Representative”- designated seats on BEA’s board of directors (Christine H. Merritt, my esteemed colleague and President of the Ohio Association of Broadcasters, holds the other in her capacity as the Executive Committee’s “Vice-President for Industry Relations.”) Appreciatively, the BEA provides each of the NASBA-member state broadcasters association a complimentary associate membership in the BEA. Just yesterday, Ms. Merritt and I had the privilege of providing a BEA update at NASBA’s semi-annual meeting in Washington, DC, tasked with the responsibility of reminding each SAE (what do you know, another acronym, this time referencing State Association Executive) the tremendous value that BEA’s complimentary membership provides each of our associations, placing a wealth of resources and opportunities at our fingertips.

The State Leadership Conferences (SLC) for numerous state broadcaster associations are held in conjunction with the annual National Alliance of State Broadcasters Associations (NASBA) conference in DC. It’s a great opportunity for broadcasters and State Broadcaster Association execs to gather in our nation’s capital and share ideas and formulate solutions to the many pressing regulatory and legislative challenges facing the broadcast industry. They include:

The New Jersey Public Education Partnership (PEP) Program offers government agencies the opportunity

In the mid-1950s, the transistor revolutionized radio. Gone were the “portable” tube radios with bulky, expensive batteries