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  • ABC fits the bill Sunday night

    The season finale of AFV started ABC out on the right foot, and then three hours of the Billboard Awards sealed the deal as the net coasted to a Sunday night win. Fox was the best of the rest, followed by CBS, NBC and ...

  • WRIF welcomes “Dave and Chuck the Freak”

    The duo take mornings at Greater Media's heritage Detroit rocker, replacing Drew & Mike. WRIF told its listeners Drew and Mike were going to be replaced with a pair that projected a younger, edgier vibe. Drew and Mike show ended last week after 22 years. ';Dave and Chuck'; will start 6 a.m. 5/28. Dave Hunter and Chuck "the Freak" Urquhart were previously on ...

  • CEA Challenges Charters FCC Set-Top Waiver

    The Consumer Electronics Association asked the full commission on Monday to reconsider the Media Bureau's grant of a conditional waiver to Charter for set-tops with downloadable security. In 2007, The FCC instituted the prohibition on set-tops that combine channel surfing with security. Cable ops were required to use a removable CableCARD security add-on, a move the FCC hoped would ...

  • Scripps News Says It Uncovered Unsecured Lifeline Personal Data

    Scripps News, which serves the company's broadcast, newspaper and online properties, Monday began publishing stories on what it says it has uncovered data security lapses affecting thousands of customers whose data was collected by companies participating in the government's Lifeline phone subsidy program. The FCC is testing an expansion of that program to broadband subsidies. ...

  • Acting FCC Chair Clyburn My Goal Is Not to Drop the Baton

    In a note to staff on her first official workday as acting chair of the FCC, Mignon Clyburn said she saw herself as running the middle leg of a relay race, eventually handing off to the president's nominee, Tom Wheeler. "My job is to build on forward momentum, give the next teammate a running start, an improved position, and no matter what, my goal is not to drop the baton," ...


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And Everything Is Going Fine [Blu-Ray]

Spalding Gray made his living talking about his own life, so it is only appropriate that And Everything Is Going Fine, Steven Soderberghs documentary about/tribute to the late actor/writer/monologuist, allows Gray to speak of his life and its signific ... ...

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  • Wheeler spinning media stocks

    FCC chair nominee Tom Wheeler has a strong background in communications, and now he has a strong communications stock portfolio. But he has promised to cash out any stocks that might pose a conflict of interest in his upcoming job. According to Hillicon Valley, chief among the holdings are interests in AT&T and Verizon. But that is hardly the end of it. In all, Wheeler is said to have some ...

  • Foundation buys Williamsport FM

    $125K WPTC-FM Williamsport PA from Pennsylvania College of Technology (Davie Jane Gilmour) to Williamsport Lycoming Broadcast Foundation (Todd Bartley). $12.5K earnest money, balance in cash at closing. [FCC file date 5/10/13] $20K KWEI-AM Boise ID (Notus ID) from Media Enterprises LLC (Milton Erhart) to Treasure Valley Broadcasting Company (Randal A. Williamson, Helen Williamson). Cash, ...

  • MMTC takes aim at McCain’s a la carte bill

    David Honig of the Minority Media and Telecommunications Counsel says that as appealing as a la carte sounds in terms of being a boon to consumers, it actually would not beneficial and would decimate diversity on the channel menu. Honig said that a tier system of programming makes room for many special-interest and niche program services in an MVPD's program guide. That gives them the ...

  • High FCC hurdle for tailor-made market analyses

    An attempt to block a non-Arbitron market multi-station deal using an analysis that ignores the contour overlap methodology used by the FCC for analyzing local cap compliance has been turned down. The stations are KRAO-FM, KCLX-AM, KMAX-AM Colfax WA and KZZL-FM Pullman WA. The stations were sold by Palouse Country Inc. to Inland Northwest Broadcasting LLC. The objection came fro Radio Palouse ...

  • Deb Turness is new NBC News President

    Deborah Turness, former editor of ITV News, the UK's most-watched commercial network news service, has been named President of NBC News. Turness joins CNBC President Mark Hoffman and MSNBC President Phil Griffin as part of the NBCUniversal News Group leadership team reporting to Fili-Krushel, Chairman, NBCUniversal News Group. Turness will be based at the NBC News HQ at 30 Rock and starts ...

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