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John Eggerton
on September 7, 2012
OK, this is not technically Washington-related, except that I grew up watching Star Trek on WRC-TV Washington then WTTG-TV Washington then WDCA-TV Washington.
Google’s Doodle for the day (Sept. 7) is a tribute to the original Star Trek Paramount TV series.
The elaborate graphic includes an “away mission” to an unamed planet where crew members can defeat an alien opponent depen ......
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John Eggerton
on August 23, 2012
A zombie (as in “A. Zombie”) joined the campaign trail last week as a candidate for president.
The move is an effort by AMC to put a faux political spotlight on its ongoing campaign publicizing the carriage impasse with Dish, which resulted in the AMC networks’ programming exiting the satellite operator’s lineup, which programming includes AMC’s The Walking Dead ......
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John Eggerton
on August 7, 2012
I probably just missed it while streaming the medal ceremony in women’s shooting, but I have not seen the big-headline story about how, in sport after sport, the U.S. women are coming through big time at this Olympics compared to the men. Or as one former gymnast put it. Title 9 delivers.
I know, Michael Phelps has been the big media story at these games, and understandably so. And how abou ......
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John Eggerton
on July 29, 2012
Comcast/NBCU and the British Embassy got together Friday to welcome the Olympic Games with a cocktail party at the Ambassador’s residence for the ambassador and a few hundred of his closest friends spread out over the residence ballroom, dining room, drawing room and gardens.The event included a green-screen station where partygoers could play at being Olympic champions against a London str ......
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John Eggerton
on June 29, 2012
Having talked to smarter people than I am, which is a large and deep pool, here is what I think the FCC may do now that the Supreme Court has dispensed with the indecency challenges — in broadcasters’ favor, sort of, though the net is that the FCC still has indecency enforcement authority and, if the Chief Justice is any judge (and he clearly is) the freedom to use it on fleeting con ......
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Posted by
John Eggerton
on June 28, 2012
CNN, which is in the midst of some tough primetime ratings, did not do itself any favors Thursday morning, jumping the gun on the hotly anticipated health care decision out of the Supreme Court both on air and online.
Fox News Channel also did its own gun-jumping, although CNN was getting most of the attention Thursday, with a photo being passed around the ‘net of President Obama holding an ......
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John Eggerton
on June 9, 2012
It was a near sweep for CBS News at the annual Radio & Television Correspondents Association dinner at the Washington Convention Center Friday night.CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward shared the David Bloom Award for excellence in enterprise reporting with the BBC’s Paul Wood, both for their coverage of the rebellion in Syria. Wood said the Syria story was only at its beginnings, but ......
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John Eggerton
on June 8, 2012
While the FCC and Justice Department may believe it was concentration and competition concerns that prompted them to deny the $39 billion AT&T/T-Mobile deal, the Public Relations Society of America seems to thinks PR had something to do with it as well.The Glen Echo group received a Silver Anvil Award from the PRSA (not to be confused with the Silver Hammer award for remembering all the lines ......
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Posted by
John Eggerton
on June 7, 2012
Thursday’s hearing on USF reform in the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs was one of the more compelling hearings on a seemingly arcane subject that I have witnessed. Tribal leaders and smaller telecom companies are worried that the FCC’s migration of legacy support from some smaller telecom carriers as part of larger USF reform could endanger long-term loans and broadband service t ......
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John Eggerton
on June 6, 2012
Google’s logo today June 6 is an animation celebrating the drive-in theater, but the Motion Picture Association of America used it as an opportunity to urge Google to come back to the table on content-protection legislation.In a blog posting MPAA Chairman Chris Dodd said he loved the animation, but added that protecting film and TV content “takes more than just a gorgeous piece of an ......
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John Eggerton
on May 23, 2012
The FCC circulated its long-awaited video competition report to the commissioners for their vote on Wednesday, according to several FCC sources. The report concludes, among other things, that online video has become a “thriving industry.”
The “annual” report (see below) covers developments in the video program market between 2007 and 2010. The term “annual” ......
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Posted by
John Eggerton
on May 23, 2012
News broadcasts collected by iconic CBS Newsman and later CBS News President Fred Friendly have been added to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry to be preserved as “cultural, artistic and/or historical treasures for generations to come.”In 1948, Friendly collected speech and news excerpts into a compilation record narrated by another iconic CBS newsman Edward ......
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