Intelligence Briefs

Over 100 years ago, Consolidated Communications was founded as a

Strong positioners move a radio station past utility grade. Nearly all of the listening going on in the United States is utility not foreground, not a reason for listening. It’s about getting your radio station near the useful part of the curve. That means moving away from being a utility.

March 26th: A major medical moment of the 20th century occurred on this date in 1953. That's when noted researcher and virologist Jonas Salk at the University of Pittsburgh revealed on CBS Radio that the testing of his polio vaccine on a 90-member group of adults and children had proven successful. The testing continued for two years with the vaccine declared sound in April of '55, paving the way for the licensing of the injected substance and the subsequent mass immunization campaigns. On this night in 1956 comedian Red Buttons made his TV acting debut on CBS's "Studio One."

March 24th: As Jackie Gleason would say, a little traveling music!!! We offer it for radio, vaudeville, Broadway and film performer Belle Baker who became the first person to host a radio broadcast from a moving train, on this day in 1932. That variety program was heard on New York's WABC. Eddie Cantor paid this lady quite the compliment at one time in saying Belle Baker is, "Dinah Shore, Patti Page, Peggy Lee and Judy Garland all rolled into one."

With today’s rapid consumption of bite-sized morsels of social media

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