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 …
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 …