Rare newshole congruence
In a normal week, there is the overall top ten story list based on aggregating coverage decisions from five media. Then there are the...
Q3 looking better than Q2 at Journal
Television revenues are pacing up in the mid-teens for Q3, after declining 4.3% in Q2 at Journal Communications, although radio and publishing are pacing...
Good news for minority newsers
A long-standing downtrend in the minority news workforce has emphatically reversed and numbers are up on the television side as well, according to a...
Watchdogs applaud Third Circuit
TV Watch was predictably enthusiastic about the court decision shooting down the FCC’s $550K fine against CBS for the infamous Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction...
Drug and Alcohol Testing
Ever since the days when an overnight jock blew up a radio studio by “freebasing” during a shift, some broadcasters have thought it might
Bidders kick tires of Reed Elsevier’s biz pubs
The usual suspects, the private equity groups who play in the media area, are rumored to be among 20 or so potential bidders who...
On the new cordless HD Radio….
In response to "Finally: portable HD Radios coming in days" I stand amazed! Wow, just saw on RBR today the latest line of Hi-Deaf cordless radios including
Martin responds to malfunction ruling
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin: “Today the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided that the Janet Jackson incident during the Super Bowl Halftime show...
Third Circuit short-circuits malfunction fine
CBS is off the hook for the $550K fine levied by the FCC for the infamous Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake Super Bowl Nipplegate scandal. The...
Court tosses Super Bowl indecency fine
A federal appeals court in Philadeliphia has thrown out the $550,000 fine that the FCC levied on CBS for Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" during...
The Unfairness Doctrine: Nancy Pelosi v. James Madison
An influential communications blog recently called for the re-imposition of the so-called Fairness Doctrine suggesting that
Adelstein may conditionally back XM/Sirius
Democratic FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein signaled he would point his thumb up if the proposed merger of satcasters XM and Sirius includes a concession...
Don’t shield reporter’s shield from veto pen
Last week we said we’d be happy to wait until after the election to enact a federal reporter’s shield -- NYT goes to bat for federal shield
Obama blasts past WSJ estimate
The campaign of Barack Obama (D-IL) openly ridiculed a recent Wall Street Journal article saying that it figured to bring in just over $30M...
The FCC agenda notable for what’s not there
The proposed agenda for the August Open Meeting at the FCC, scheduled at the get-out-of-town-friendly date of 8/1/08, will include a look at how...