11 States Now Have Laws Limiting Artificial Intelligence, Deep Fakes, and Synthetic Media in Political Advertising – Looking at the Issues
Artificial Intelligence was the talk of the NAB Convention last week. Seemingly, not a session took place without some discussion of the impact of AI. One area that we have written about many times is the impact of AI on political advertising. Legislative consideration of that issue has exploded in the first quarter of 2024, […]
Local Television Prepares For Total Solar Eclipse Coverage
An expected crush of cell traffic may strain wireless networks, but stations are prepared WASHINGTON, D.C.—Reruns are nothing new to television, but not so much when Mother Nature typically waits a few hundred years to put on a repeat performance. Next week’s total solar eclipse, however, is a notable exception. Many of the reporters, news […]
Baltimore Bridge Collapse Reinforces The Essential Need For Local Coverage
Like so many of us, I awoke on Tuesday to the horrific news of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge that acted as a major artery across Baltimore Harbor. My first instinct was to turn to a national cable channel so that I could better understand the alerts humming across my phone. But […]
FCC Requests 14.8% Increase in Regulatory Fee Authority
The fiscal 2024 budget request asks for $448,075,000 in budget authority from regulatory fee offsetting collections WASHINGTON, D.C.—The FCC has released a budgetary request for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 that asks for $448,075,000 in budget authority from regulatory fee offsetting collections. This request represents an increase of $57,883,000 or 14.8 percent from the FY 2024 […]
Experts: Social media outages unlikely to affect voting
Election officials in multiple jurisdictions told PolitiFact the March 5 Meta outages outages did not affect voting. It’s Election Day in November 2024. Across the U.S., voters are heading to the polls. And major social media platforms are not working. The scenario could alarm voters and draw news organizations’ attention. But would it affect voting? […]
How Streamer NBC News Now Is Being Positioned as the Future of the Network’s News
“We’re using the same studios, control rooms, and are treating it like one big production,” says EVP of Programming Janelle Rodriguez Super Tuesday at 30 Rock in New York City was a bustling affair. The halls were buzzing with activity as producers, anchors and crew all across NBC readied their wall-to-wall coverage of a predictable […]
AM Act Gets 218th Voting Sponsor In US House, Ensuring Majority
The AM For Every Vehicle Act has hit the magic number of voting co-sponsors needed to pass the legislation through the US House of Representatives. The House version of the bill, led by New Jersey Representative Josh Gottheimer, announced its 218th voting supporter. The surge of four new co-sponsors came the same day that the NAB […]
Let The Lobbying Begin: Broadcasters Descend On Capitol Hill.
More than 550 radio and television broadcasters from across the country are in Washington, DC today for the National Association of Broadcasters’ annual State Leadership Conference. The conference began Tuesday at Washington Nationals Park, minutes away from NAB headquarters, with remarks from policymakers, panel discussions, and briefings to prep attendees to fan out across Capitol […]
Former FEMA Admin Gaynor: Where Cell Signals Fail, AM Is There
Former acting Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security Pete Gaynor is the latest official to speak out in favor of the AM For Every Vehicle Act, referencing growing nuclear danger overseas as well as recent domestic technological troubles. The past administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency published an op-ed in The Hill discussing how […]
Nielsen: Radio Is The Answer To Political Campaign Reach
In findings that could reshape how the modern political campaign is run, a new Nielsen study shows the substantial impact of radio on elections. The study, in partnership with Cumulus Media, iHeartMedia, and Audacy, reveals that early deployment of AM/FM ads significantly enhances reach, particularly among undecided voters. The study found that AM/FM outperforms both television […]
