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 …
What’s the Best Use of Broadcast Airwaves?
The following column was published in the July 14, 2011 edition of Missouri News Horizon. * * * As the debate rages in Washington, DC …
Vast? Yes. Wasteland? Not a chance.
Fifty years ago this week, former FCC Chairman Newton Minow addressed broadcasters at the NAB Show and declared that television was a vast wasteland failing to …
You Don’t Have to Be Einstein to Understand Broadcasters Are Efficiently Using Spectrum
A bad combination last night — catching up on reading the latest in the broadcast spectrum debate followed by a book on the life and …
Verbatim Quotes are Stubborn Things
It’s been said by cynics that the only real gaffe committed inside the Beltway is when someone actually tells the truth. That’s why we’ve gotten …
Your Favorite TV Shows: Could Government Policy Impact Them?
I have a confession to make – I’m hooked on “American Idol.” Not many people know that about me. But it’s hard to resist watching …
Two Strategies, One Future
A lot has been said and written in recent days concerning the NAB Radio Board’s vote supporting a multi-tiered proposal that could ultimately result in …
Eight unassailable facts regarding retransmission consent
With the pay-TV industry’s continued effort to have Congress or the Federal Communications Commission change the retransmission consent process, here is a quick refresher with eight …