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The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is pressuring the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to force acceptance of new version of Digital Audio Broadcasting, a kind of "Fax For Audio" on to the existing AM and FM broadcast bands. To accomplish this, the NAB plans to double the amount of space on the dial that a station uses, thus jamming the signals of weaker stations next to them on the dial....
Posted: Tue, Mar 12, 2002 5:32pm PST
Press Release: The Center on Democratic Communications praises Court of Appeals rebuff of broadcast industry attempt to sabatoge Low Power FM....
Posted: Sun, Feb 10, 2002 10:44pm PST
Congress, with the help of the NAB & NPR, has gutted the opportunity for hundreds of diverse community stations to go on the air....
Posted: Thu, Jan 18, 2001 9:54pm PST
Texas Microbroadcasters Canyon Lake Radio and MicroKIND Radio lawsuit against FCC and Justice Department see the light of day for the first time in over a year, Judge compares action to "Brown .vs. The Board of Education", commends plaintiffs....
Posted: Sun, Oct 1, 2000 3:44pm PDT
National Association of Broadcasters Executives Exposed....
Posted: Sat, Sep 23, 2000 2:59pm PDT
Media reform groups call on listeners to withhold pledges until NPR stops beating up on neighborhood radio....
Posted: Sat, Sep 23, 2000 11:51am PDT
It’s no accident that the Marconi Radio Award nominees include Don Imus, Howard Stern, and Rush Limbaugh, while past winners include Limbaugh, Stern, and Dr. Laura. Their styles of hate radio, carefully blended with plausible deniability, are anything but an abberation from the norm that America’s corporate broadcast media have sunk to....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:33am PDT
“Dr.” Laura isn’t really a doctor--her degree is in physiology, not psychiatry or psychology. Nothing else about her is exactly what it seems, either. Thanks to the highly effective grassroots group StopDrLaura.com, people are fimally starting to get the picture....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:29am PDT
Don Imus is so well connected to elite media and politicians, he couldn’t possibly be doing hate radio, could he? Not unless hate radio is integral to America’s corporate media system!...
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:24am PDT
Howard Stern is far cruder than the other NAB Hate Radio Olympians, but he’s still too slick for the corporate media to catch on to. Could it be they’re not really trying?...
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:19am PDT
By ignoring critical social issues mainstream corporate media dismisses democratic values in the United States....
Posted: Sun, Sep 17, 2000 4:49pm PDT
Today the Alliance for Better Campaigns is kicking off a grassroots campaign to get the attention of irresponsible broadcasters....
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2000 3:25pm PDT