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May 02, 2013 / 02:00 PM
McAdams On: The Hon. Mignon Clyburn
Mignon Clyburn has been a supportive foot soldier under the tenure of Julius Genachowski as FCC chairman. Where she has distinguished herself is in the defense of minority interests, and moreover, those of citizens.
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Apr 25, 2013 / 11:16 PM
McAdams On: Ninja Lobbying
Let us begin by acknowledging that ninjas were not noble warriors, but paid assassins. And so
it goes with anti-broadcast lobbying in Washington, D.C.
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Apr 18, 2013 / 03:04 PM
McAdams On: TV People
“It’s just TV,” Andy says when we start taking the business too seriously. But it’s more. It’s people—visionary, stubborn, misguided, brilliant, fallible, manipulative, guileless, sincere, creative and mercurial. The technical side of TV is a close community, such that those who don’t yet know one another typically know of one another. I knew of Preston Davis.
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Apr 12, 2013 / 03:27 PM
McAdams On: NAB 2013
The 2013 National Association of Broadcasters Show is officially closed. Registration was up about 900 people from last year, to 92,414. I am sorry I didn’t get to talk to all of you.
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Apr 10, 2013 / 09:00 AM
The Future of TV
I’m lousy at predictions; therefore I will make some. A) We’re all in the dark about the future of TV, and B) five years from now, none of us will dig up the $4,000 market research report that said mobile video would make us all rich, rich, I tells ya!
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Apr 05, 2013 / 06:00 AM
What Now?
The senior member of the FCC and its chairman announced their departures within three days of one another. In between, the broadcast lobby fired off its point-by-point objections to proposed modifications for calculating a TV station’s reach. The nexus here is the historic TV spectrum incentive auction planned for June of next year.
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Mar 18, 2013 / 06:00 PM
‘All Reasonable Efforts’
If Congress is endowed with a singular gift, it is the ability to write legislation with just enough ambiguity to keep it tangled up in the court until the members retire.
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Mar 14, 2013 / 05:31 PM
McAdams On: LPTV in the Crosshairs
Low-power television stations are the Hobbits of broadcast spectrum, quietly going about their daily business while darkly in Isengard…
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Feb 28, 2013 / 04:29PM
McAdams On: Alien Ownership
There are edicts that quietly come out of government agencies that can have a profound impact on how Americans conduct their daily lives, but are obscured in bureaucratic arcana and thus subjected to minimal scrutiny.
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