If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters.
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Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.
The other part of our proposal that gets the 'dittoheads' upset is our suggestion that the commercial radio station owners either play by the rules or pay. In other words, if they don't want to be subject to local criticism of how they are meeting their license obligations, they should pay to support public broadcasters who will operate on behalf of the local community.
The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention.
One of the things that all great analysts have in common is an understanding of the TV business. There are many who've known their sport well and were articulate, but the crme de la crme are those who don't think of themselves as ex-players or ex-coaches but as broadcasters.
Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
Public broadcasters, libraries and museums have a unique ability to connect people to their communities, and communities to the resources, ideas, and knowledge that they need to solve problems. Using these grants, public broadcasters, museums, and libraries in the seven communities will be able address local concerns in tangible and valuable ways.
The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.
In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.
Smith was a passionate newsman who for nearly 40 years was one of the country's most distinguished broadcasters, ... He was outspoken, sometimes controversial and never afraid of taking on the powerful.
There have been some suggestions that since some of these people have appeared in paid television advertising, that that satisfies our obligations as television broadcasters.
We fine broadcasters for using four-letter words, we say that's offensive. So is it offensive to call for the assassination of a world leader.
For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law.
The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.
Broadcasters are focused on improving programming in these areas in order to drive advertising revenue growth.
As a result, the relevance of the main 24-hour news broadcasters has never been higher. Unprecedented pressure has been put on broadcasters such as CNN, BBC World, Bloomberg, CNBC and Star to provide faster, better news programming and reporting than their competitors. Seismic events (such as) the war in Afghanistan, new upheavals in the Middle East, dark days in West Africa and the war against Iraq (mean) 24-hour news operations are constantly being put to the test, ... Now, more than ever, consumers need a trusted, impartial news source.