At last week’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing on “Crafting a Successful Incentive Auction,” the executive director of the Expanding Opportunities for Broadcasters Coalition (EOBC) sounded …
Local Broadcasters: A Lifeline for Residents of Moore, OK
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP6vZRz6e54] NAB is proud to present the third installment in a powerful video series demonstrating the irreplaceable and indispensable role that local radio and television …
What Consensus Really Means and the Importance of Driving It
In December, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee conducted an oversight hearing on the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) implementation of the Spectrum Act, and …
Who Are They Kidding?
Time Warner Cable executives would have you believe they’ve become terribly concerned about rising cable rates. So much so that the company is bankrolling a …
Working Toward an Effective Band Plan
Today AT&T, the National Association of Broadcasters and Verizon jointly posted the following blog: The TV broadcast spectrum incentive auction proceeding raises some of the …
Local Broadcasters: ‘Communicating Superstorm Sandy’
NAB is proud to present the second installment in a powerful video series demonstrating the vital role that local radio and television broadcasters serve as …
Broadcasting as an engine for local economies
The following column was published in the May 21, 2012 edition of Politico. * * Congress has been consumed in recent years with contentious debate …
Radio-enabled cellphones: A voluntary approach to public safety
Once again, some of our friends in Washington are misrepresenting NAB’s position regarding equipping and enabling FM chips in cellphones. To be clear, NAB supports …
Broadcasters: America’s ‘First Informers’
Every day across America, local radio and television broadcasters serve communities in extraordinary ways: raising millions of dollars for charity, rescuing kidnapped children with AMBER …
CTIA Diminishes Broadcast Diversity. Really?
Sometimes statements get made inside the Beltway that are so shockingly arrogant that one has to step back and ask: Really? That moment came after …