The FCC has come up with a middle way for regulating broadband. The stuff on the Internet would remain a Title I information service. The network that carries the stuff would be regulated as a Title II telecommunications service. This would give the commission more legal leverage to enforce network neutrality. It could tell Comcast to stop throttling bandwidth hogs, and make it stick.

TVs are evolving faster than bugs these days. There are nearly as many varieties. There are liquid crystal, digital-light processing, organic and inorganic light-emitting diode displays, plasmas and laser TVs. We’ve not yet even started on Internet-connected or 3D TVs, and perhaps we shouldn’t until we achieve uniform quality in HDTV.

The focus of the government’s broadband strategy is now on the cable industry, giving broadcasters a chance to regroup for the continuing spectrum onslaught.

There was a bit of a flap in the Los Angeles broadcast news community this week culminating with an executive exit. It seems this executive oversaw a purported news segment depicting a “Real Housewife of Orange County” as a KNBC

Spectrum reclamation still on the drawing board

Anyone who’s ever been a news editor at high school newspaper, a grain elevator journal or a national TV network knows the third certainty. After death and taxes, it’s feast or famine. There is either so much going on it’s virtually impossible to cover it... or not. And so it was that a handful of Midwestern TV stations booked a guy purporting to be a yo-yo champion.

The Internet Age is one of instant reactivity. There’s no need for patience any longer no need for deliberation. Now we can do things like crash the market with a keystroke and then watch it happen in real time. It