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TV stations have long been the backbone of the American community. Marshall McLuhan said in 1964, in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man : “The medium is the message.” By 1964, TV had solidly taken over the dominate role of the king of media from radio. McLuhan was writing about TV. If Today, 50 [...]
Dec. 12, 2012. Today was a big day for spectrum in Washington DC (where a lot, but not all happens with regard to wireless regulation). All the FCC Commissioners testified before the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. The Subcommittee wanted to hear from the Commissioners on the upcoming TV Incentive Auction (FCC TV Auction [...]
We are about to have a Presidential Executive Order that will change our world — at least our wireless, spectrum world. Ten years ago most of us would have said that mobile can not “change the world.” Today we know mobile is changing the world and that a major future change to the mobile ecosystem [...]
Starting in 1996, the FCC began the work of moving TV broadcasters from analog to digital TV. At the time it was anticipated that TV stations would use their spectrum to deliver additional, unspecified non-broadcast- type services. In 1998, the FCC prescribed a rule (47 CFR 73.624(g )), following the 1996 Telecom Act, allowing TV [...]
