December 2005

FCC Wants More Adelphia Merger Data

[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Ted Hearn]

NAB Chief Has Mean Game of Hardball

[SOURCE: TVWeek, AUTHOR: Doug Halonen]

Letter to Congress on License Challenge

The Campaign Legal Center's Meredith McGehee sent a letter to the House and Senate Commerce Committees, as well as Representatives and Senators from Illinois and Wisconsin, regarding CLC's recently filed license challenge to Chicago and Milwaukee area broadcasters. The letter asserts, "The dearth of local election coverage represents a market-wide failure of local television broadcasters in these two communities. The broadcasters in Chicago and Milwaukee failed to provide citizens with the information they needed about local races.

New Research Proves HDTV Still 'Fuzzy' for Consumers

[SOURCE: PRNewswire/Scientific-Atlanta press release]

New Technology puts Fresh Spin on Government Spin

[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Deborah Zabarenko]
From the Strategy for Victory in Iraq to "Recovery Channel" TV on federal disaster relief, the Bush administration's spin operation is in high gear, aiming its message directly at the American public as it critiques the mainstream media. This is hardly the first U.S. administration bent on getting its unfiltered message to the world. What may be different is the use of new technologies to sell the president's message, set against this particular administration's generally chilly attitude toward the media.