National Association of Broadcasters Conference

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski's speech at the National Association of Broadcasters convention this week will not be long remembered.

Hopefully, the broadcast networks and their affiliates will use their various meetings at the NAB Show to reach some understanding on the contentious issue of retransmission sharing.

National Association of Broadcasters President Gordon Smith stepped back into his previous life as a U.S. senator at the NAB meeting, saying AT&T's proposed acquisition of T-Mobile may force lawmakers to question the efficacy of a proposal to persuade broadcasters to give up some of their spectrum to meet the mobile broadband boom.

1) Mobile-optimized content and service, 2) Bigger and better devices, 3) Improved connectivity, and 4) Support from advertisers.

It was a coming home of sorts for CBS President and CEO Leslie Moonves at the National Association of Broadcasters annual show.

Federal Communications Commission member Meredith Attwell Baker found herself playing a mini version of the old "This Is Your Life" television game show during her appearance at the broadcasters' annual convention.

PBS will start testing a mobile DTV-based emergency alert system later this year, the noncom service announced in Las Vegas, calling it "the first major overhaul of the nation's aging Emergency Alert System (EAS) since the Cold War."

At the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, NAB Chairman Gordon Smith took aim at cable operators in defense of retransmission payments.

At the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, NAB Chairman Gordon Smith said broadcasters are in the battle of their lives against forces of "new media" painting them as stuck in the Howdy Doody era, and government overreaching for the next broadband app.

Speaking at the National Association of Broadcasters' annual convention, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski focused on how much technology is changing the broadcasting industry and our economy; how these changes require that we update our communications and spectrum policies; and how one of the most important tools the FCC needs is the ability to conduct voluntary incentive auctions -- an incentive-based mechanism to use market forces to free up new spectrum to meet rapidly growing consumer demand and fuel our economy.

As part of an National Association of Broadcasters panel on the Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum plans, Post-Newsweek President Alan Frank says the proposal to auction spectrum to aid broadband is not so much how such a voluntary auction will affect the minority of broadcasters who choose to participate in it, but rather how it will affect the majority who choose not to.

Former National Association of Broadcasters President Eddie Fritts said that a proposal to persuade broadcasters to voluntarily give up some of their spectrum is not necessarily a done deal.

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) are reprising their feud over use of the airwaves this week in the form of a popularity contest.