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FCC TV incentive spectrum auctions (updated) – What does it mean for broadcasters? #pubmedia

Attorney David Oxenford of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP has a good overview of what procedures broadcasters might expect from the FCC in the matter of repacking and auctioning of television broadcast spectrum.  Link: Broadcast Law Blog.  Trackback (posted 20 Feb. 2012).

Updated 22 Feb. 2012:  Attorney Stephen Coran of Rini Coran PC also has a good overview of provisions of this legislation.  It goes in somewhat different directions than the Oxenford post from yesterday.  Link: TelecomMediaTech Law Blog (posted 21 Feb. 2012).

And Attorney Rob Schill of Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth also has a useful analysis of the provisions of this legislation.  Link:  CommLawBlog (posted 18 Feb. 2012).

There has been some talk within the television industry of giving up part of one’s spectrum for remuneration.  It appears that the only way to accomplish that would be to forgo reimbursements for repacking costs or to consolidate operations with another station or stations on a single channel.

Updated 24 Feb. 2012:  The legislation which created this spectrum auction authority is contained in H.R. 3630, the “Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012,” now signed by the president.  Link: Library of Congress [pdf].

Here’s Kim McAvoy’s in-depth report on the legislation.  Link: TVNewsCheck (posted 17 Feb. 2012).

Updated 25 Feb. 2012:  VP Technology for NBC Stations, Doug Lung, takes up some engineering aspects of this in his regular column.  Link:  TVTechnology.

Updated 28 Feb. 2012:  Here is another good legal analysis of provisions in this legislation in the form of Harry Jessell’s interview with attorney John Hane of Pullsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.  Link:  TVNewsCheck.

--Dennis

TV spectrum auctions likely to fail if GOP bill accepted

... says Blair Levin, former FCC staffer who's described as the chief architect of the Commission's 2010 National Broadband Plan.  The GOP version of this legislation:

... contains provisions designed to protect broadcasters who hang on to their spectrum. And they are what has Levin worried.  ¶  "The legislation ties the FCC’s hands in a variety of ways," said Levin, who left the FCC following release of the broadband plan and is now attached to the Aspen Institute. "It opens it up to litigation risk, which then, in conjunction with the other handcuffs, makes it difficult to pull off a successful auction.  ¶  "The nature of the bill dramatically increases the probability that there will be less spectrum recovered and less money for the [U.S.] Treasury."

Link:  Article by Kim McAvoy in  TVNewsCheck.  Thanks to Joyce Herring for the tip.

Also see Jon Eggerton's Levin: Current Hill Take on Spectrum Auctions Likely Won't Work in Multichannel News.  --Dennis

The Next Decade of Bandwidth, Parts I-V

John Shepler does a five-part look forward on the competition for bandwidth ahead. I’m not necessarily endorsing everything he says and some of my fellow television broadcasters may want to take their amlodipine before reading, but it’s worth your time to read.

Link: Telexplainer, Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V.  --Dennis

Spectrum auctions not in debt ceiling agreement–but look for them to return

Thirty-six years ago, our attention was focused on a toothy great white shark which was terrorizing Amity Island, thanks to the artistry of Steven Spielberg and Peter Benchley.  This summer, the dysfunctional family of 535 elected representatives to Congress are chomping up government expenditures looking for any savings that can’t be labeled a tax increase.

For a bit, Senator Harry Reid had thrown spectrum auctions into the water along with the other chum – advocated by the wireless telephony and consumer electronics industries and worrisome to the television broadcast industry (disclosure: I work for a small sliver of the latter). That was withdrawn in the final agreement.

However, if you might think it’s safe to go back in the water, look for it to come up again in the so-called “super committee” that’s been put together to eliminate some more of the deficit by Christmas.  Marguerite Reardon has a good summary of the situation at CNET.

An accelerated auction without adequate compensation to broadcasters who will have to move their channels in a repacking move could be harmful, and there are important considerations concerning interference and reduced coverage. On the other hand, broadcasters would also have an opportunity to use 4G and later systems for their own content distribution.  So, it’s a mixed bag and it’s important to have enough time to plan and make necessary adjustments if spectrum is to be redeployed from broadcasting to telephony and wireless data.  --Dennis

[NB: Photo by Terry Goss and used under Creative Commons Attribution]

Over-the-air TV households: the real numbers from TVB | #pubmedia

On four different occasions since early 2004, I’ve used information from the Television Bureau of Advertising web site (click “Cable & ADS” on the right navigation) to determine the number of households that use over-the-air reception (OTA) exclusively (that is, not counting antenna reception by secondary and tertiary receivers in wired cable and ADS homes).  The term ADS refers to SMATV, MMDS, large-dish satellite, and DBS, and currently 30.6% of the 30.9% total ADS households are DBS subscribers.

On a tab labeled “ADS and Wired-Cable Penetration by DMA,” you’ll find for May 2011 a table of the 210 Nielsen DMA’s which contains a column labeled “% Cable and/or ADS” (there being a small percentage of homes that have both). If you subtract the numbers in this column from 100, you’ll get the OTA numbers for each market. No need to use some lame telephone survey to estimate this as the Consumer Electronics Association did in December 2010; TVB.org has it for just a little copy/paste work in Excel.

The first time I did this using November 2003 data, OTA-exclusives came up to 19.7M households. My most recent effort prior to this week used September 2006 data, and that showed 14.6M households (13.1% of TVHH). The one I did yesterday showed 11.1M households (9.6% of TVHH).  ADS is now at an all-time high, so the addition of local channels to DBS has resulted in another decline in OTA.

So, yes, it’s falling and, yes, it’s gotten pretty low as a nationwide average.  That’s some higher than the 8% in the CEA’s phone survey mentioned above that’s gotten some circulation (e.g., “Spectrum Reform Now” in The Technology Liberation Front blog).

From a public policy standpoint in a democracy, a national average of doesn’t mean a lot if there is a high “standard deviation” in the numbers that make up the average – and that’s the case here.  There are 535 members of Congress who get to weigh in on what to do with spectrum policy, and when the Boise DMA has 30% OTA usage (antennas exclusively), four members of Congress get to have a vested interest.  Ditto, when Los Angeles has 720,000 antenna-only households (13%), about 30 members of Congress have a vested interest. As L.A. proves, it’s not just rural markets – 15 of the top 50 DMA have 12.5% or greater OTA-exclusive usage. On the other hand, Congress members in New York City, Connecticut and Massachusetts might wonder what the fuss is about.

It’s that political complexity, fueled by the fact that OTA homes have a greater economic impact to stations (especially for public television which has underwriting and individual giving driven by viewing) than do homes with multi-channel programmers – perhaps double the value per household by my own guesstimate.

Don’t get me wrong, I think that freeing up additional wireless spectrum from broadcasters and others – voluntarily and properly compensated – ultimately is a good thing because services on multipurpose devices wireless and wired internet provides will be at least as important to broadcasters in the not too distant future as broadcast spectrum services will be. We broadcasters need it as much as anyone.

But let’s get our data right and make decisions based on understanding complexities, not over-simplifying for political expediency.  Thanks to the TVB for their goldmine of information.  --Dennis

FCC has released its new state of the media report | #pubmedia

The FCC's new state of the media report called, Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age, is out today and can be accessed here:

http://www.fcc.gov/info-needs-communities

The report's principal author is Steven Waldman, former editor-in-chief of Beliefnet.com, who has served since 2009 as a senior advisor to the FCC on this project.

If you don't want to download the whole 5-mb pdf, you can download smaller ones.  Public broadcasting takes up all of chapter 6 and part of chapter 31.

This will take several hours to review but from a cursory look, seems worth the effort.

--Dennis

Radio station values beginning to eclipse TV’s in #pubmedia; TV spectrum implications

When I was managing public radio and television stations in the Pacific Northwest, I used as a decision-making tool what might be the effect on the imaginary equity value of our organization of this or that significant decision. It tended to move me in a “build” or new product direction, sometimes to the patient consternation of my excellent team. I found it helpful as one of multiple indicators.

Equity values are determined by a lot of things, including market forces largely outside the control of management. We’ve all been concerned about declining television audiences while public radio audiences have continued strong, so I suppose it was inevitable that station equity values in the two media would meet at some point.  There is now evidence we’re there and it has significant implications for the FCC’s effort to free up spectrum for wireless services.

Yesterday, it was announced that Nashville Public Radio has purchased a second station in Nashville for $3.35 million plus full time access to one of its HD Radio channels (congratulations to Rob Gordon, his board and team).  Reports say it will be a classical music station.  Link: Nashville Scene.   In television terms, Nashville is the 29th market with just over 1 million TV households.  It therefore paid $3.22 per household for Vanderbilt’s student-managed station.

In the recent past, we’ve seen the sales of public television stations for $3 million each in Pittsburgh (the 24th market with 1.16M TVHH) and Orlando (the 19th market with 1.45M TVHH).  Pittsburgh’s was not the primary PBS station, but Orlando’s was – and that market had two secondary stations.  So, the Pittsburgh station brought $2.58 per household while, more recently, Orlando’s brought only $2.06.

All of this may lead a gloomy television station exec to look at the possibility of a whole or partial sale to the wireless industry as a good thing.  Perhaps that’s so if you’re sitting on a pile of debt you need to quickly liquidate, but these valuations wouldn’t produce much as an endowment investment. The median of 864 college and university endowment investment returns was –18.1% in 2009 (source: NACUBO). Things are up from there, of course, but even a long term average of +5% seems optimistic these days.  So, if that $3M spectrum sale produces only $150,000 per year and you can’t net better than that with more traditional revenue sources from that spectrum, you’ve got some pretty serious problems.

There are other factors, too, that make a sale to wireless problematic. It’s likely, said the CTIA and CEA in an FCC filling, that they can get all the spectrum they need through repacking and will need to resort to auctioned spectrum only in the top 30 markets (full disclosure: I’m executive director of the Public Television Major Market Group, but the usual disclaimer about these being my own opinions applies). Further, one presumes that the marketability of your spectrum will vary by where you are in the UHF TV band, with a preference for spectrum that can be contiguously aggregated.

--Dennis

AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile more about market share/pricing than spectrum

Yesterday’s surprising (maybe) announcement of AT&T’s acquisition (pending regulatory approval) of T-Mobile is being billed as a spectrum play for 4G, a move in response to the U.S. Administration’s goal of covering America with wireless broadband.  See the Wall Street Journal’s interview with Kevin Werbach for a perspective on this.

However, one analyst says that 70%-90% of AT&T’s current spectrum currently sits unused.  AT&T acquired two nationwide aggregations of spectrum that lie mostly unused for roughly one-twentieth of the price they paid for T-Mobile.  Interestingly, this (the 1/20th figure) is what the NTIA and CEA said in a recent white paper that broadcasters would need to be paid to clear enough spectrum to meet FCC goals.

You pay a 20-fold premium over bare spectrum because this spectrum – all of which they won’t use – comes with customers and this new customer base will make them the largest wireless provider (they and Verizon will control 70%).  So this is really about that market share and the control over pricing this will give them.

In addition to the links above, also see Om Malik’s, What AT&T and T-Mobile Merger Means for Innovation.  --Dennis

TV broadcasters to face new fees for #spectrum?

Doug Lung found the following in the FCC’s FY 2012 budget proposal, seemingly aimed at television broadcasters that do not “voluntarily” give up spectrum for wireless broadband:

…the Administration proposes to provide the FCC with new authority to use other economic mechanisms, such as fees, as a spectrum management tool. FCC would be authorized to set user fees on unauctioned spectrum licenses and could be used in instances where incentive auctions are not appropriate. …

Link: TV Technology.  --Dennis

My Jan. 2011 media econ and tech tweets #pubmedia

Recently, I’ve found myself tweeting more from @haarsager and blogging less.  Most of the tweeting has the same media economics and technology content as I normally put in the blog, so thought I’d share them here.  So I invite you to scan my January tweets (those off topic have been deleted for length) for some interesting and, in some cases, important links.  --Dennis

gleonhard “Content is no longer king. Its throne has been taken by experience” http://instapaper.com/zRx3x612B a snippet from Midem 2011 about 4 hours ago via Instapaper Retweeted by haarsager and 7 others

Metering data: RT @jamescridland Canada's threat to internet radio: http://j.mp/fq1JdE about 4 hours ago via Twitterrific

garfors 2.2 million mobile phones are sold every year in Norway. But why doesn't consumerism apply to digital radio? http://gd.is/tH5P about 6 hours ago via web Retweeted by haarsager

Cuts to world svc & online a retreat to UK shores RT @dominiccampbell Why the BBC's old guard called time on [www] http://gu.com/p/2myfp/ip about 5 hours ago via Twitterrific

Addressing the declining value of search http://dlvr.it/FQHcw about 24 hours ago via dlvr.it

davezatz Amazon set to take on Netflix & Hulu with unlimited streaming tier? http://zatz.tv/gmOE0G 5:35 AM Jan 30th via bitly Retweeted by haarsager and 7 others

Congrats! RT @jsnell PBS for iPad has just passed Macworld Daily Reader as the top free iPad app. Thanks to everyone ...! #pubmedia 3:47 PM Jan 29th via Twitterrific

BusinessWeek on Netflix and premium cable's "worst nightmare" http://bit.ly/aGw8Af 5:01 AM Jan 28th via Twitterrific

PBSMediaShift Study: 86% of people use mobile devices while watching TV http://j.mp/fQLJbA via @djfom 5:03 PM Jan 27th via Measured Voice Retweeted by haarsager and 6 others

RWW ReadWriteEnterprise: Video in the Enterprise is Not What Most Workers Want http://rww.to/dKApUI 4:36 PM Jan 27th via Tools Plugin for Movable Type Retweeted by haarsager and 9 others

VideoNuzeNews Hulu Reworks Its Script as Digital Change Hits TV: http://on.wsj.com/fHeTGH 7:57 AM Jan 27th via twitterfeed Retweeted by haarsager

iwantmedia Netflix now No 2 U.S. video subscription company; could surpass Comcast by mid-2011 http://lat.ms/i2odLP 7:05 AM Jan 27th via web Retweeted by haarsager

RT @lostremote Netflix says its accelerating growth is just getting started. Some impressive (and surprising) numbers: http://bit.ly/ijjtvW 4:30 AM Jan 27th via Twitterrific

fnjacobs Old media meets new media. And maybe, just maybe, it works. www.jacobsmedia.com/blog 6:32 AM Jan 26th via TweetDeck Retweeted by haarsager

jamescridland I've been interviewed: my thoughts on the future of radio, and my cereal box free gift... http://t.co/QIdjGlU 1:09 AM Jan 26th via Twitter for Android Retweeted by haarsager

RT @garfors Telenor, Norways biggest telco and ISP, to charge media companies for data traffic. How to solve it: http://gd.is/F9DK ... 5:58 AM Jan 26th via Twitterrific

Forrester analyst: RT @paidContent “As Things Stand Now, Digital Music Has Failed" http://ow.ly/3Kake #pcbuzz 4:45 PM Jan 25th via Twitterrific

RT @KPav A thoughtful case for public media funding from John Diaz: http://bit.ly/ezXfGm | #pubmedia 12:31 PM Jan 24th via Twitterrific

RT @romenesko BBC to cut 200 of its websites, eliminate 360 jobs over the next two years. http://journ.us/eKw9L7 | #pubmedia 8:03 AM Jan 24th via Twitterrific

RT @fnjacobs The challenge of adapting to new media as illustrated passionately in #KingsSpeech http://bit.ly/52enB2 | #pubmedia 8:03 AM Jan 24th via Twitterrific

Way-cool The History of Jazz iPad app is best #pubmedia new platform content yet, but comes from tiny 955 Dreams http://ow.ly/3IFl6. 12:06 PM Jan 23rd via web

RT @markramseymedia Broadcasters understand Audiences, not Communities... - What's the diff ... http://tinyurl.com/4hgfdlq #pubmedia 9:19 AM Jan 23rd via Twitterrific

tomwhiteindc Variety: Pubcasters on the Ropes http://ow.ly/3IpkX #pubmedia 12:15 PM Jan 22nd via HootSuite Retweeted by haarsager

NewTeeVee Cord Cutters Survival Stories: Netflix Changed Everything http://dlvr.it/DrWsC 3:39 AM Jan 22nd via dlvr.it Retweeted by haarsager and 1 other

Must read: RT @stevegillmor A VC: Monetizing Mobile Audio: http://me.lt/6Y89O 9:13 PM Jan 20th via Twitterrific

RT @dsearls KDFC wounded, @KUSF killed (almost): http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/?p=3651 #radio #VRM ... #pubmedia 10:13 PM Jan 19th via Twitterrific

RT @artcny Classical Powerhouse KDFC Sold to USC http://t.co/JLcbpQa via @sfgate #pubmedia 10:27 PM Jan 18th via Twitterrific

TerryHeaton My friend Holly on canceling Hulu Plus: "They can have my time or my money, not both!" Clarion call for all media, circa 2011. 11:43 AM Jan 18th via TweetDeck Retweeted by haarsager

timjeby Excellent piece from @fnjacobs on HD Radio and the CES - Must Read for those in radio : http://bit.ly/erzInR 10:11 AM Jan 18th via web from Bellerive, Bellerive Retweeted by haarsager

Make that all users, counting apps phoning home your use RT @RWW U.S. Announces 120,000 iPad Users Had Data Stolen http://rww.to/ffC0WO 1:00 PM Jan 18th via Twitterrific

Pareto's Law at work: RT @mocoNews Video Is 40% Of All Mobile Traffic, But Most Of Us Don't Watch It http://cnt.to/nkk 12:56 PM Jan 18th via Twitterrific

paidContent Exclusive: Roku Lands Its First Cable Channel http://cnt.to/njN 6:48 PM Jan 17th via ContentNext Retweeted by haarsager and 4 others

rafat Spotify seems to be scoring ego points about launching in U.S., not about doing what's best to grow, for its investors AND current users. 2:44 PM Jan 17th via Seesmic Web Retweeted by haarsager

rafat Is Spotify focused on wrong priorities? I would humbly posit, yes. Focus on building & scaling service rest-of-world. http://cnt.to/njo 2:39 PM Jan 17th via Seesmic Web Retweeted by haarsager

Great to see convening role of public radio (BBC) in The King's Speech. True, it was 70+ years ago. #pubmedia 8:22 AM Jan 17th via Twitterrific

TimOlsonSF Searching for the Future of Television  - MIT Tech Review on Google TV http://bit.ly/giRHH6 12:32 PM Jan 15th via bitly Retweeted by haarsager and 2 others

@bairdmedia Feb 6 is the Super Bowl - only fb game I watch all year 6:28 AM Jan 15th via Twitterrific in reply to bairdmedia

dangillmor latest evidence why newspapers are insane to put so many eggs in Apple basket http://on.mash.to/hcm1oj 9:21 PM Jan 14th via Seesmic for Android Retweeted by haarsager and 15 others

Quit cable this week & have been reminded how much better HD is OTA - get yourself an antenna before Feb 6th 10:55 PM Jan 14th via Twitterrific

jamescridland Mobile data caps are different in the UK and US: here's why no-one's worrying in the states about streaming radio: http://j.mp/gQ4nGa 2:51 PM Jan 14th via TweetDeck Retweeted by haarsager and 1 other

stevegillmor Ship or Get Off the Pot http://bit.ly/ebs6NK 9:28 PM Jan 13th via TypePad Retweeted by haarsager and 8 others

RT @romenesko PBS not having weekend news reports seems like "an abdication of duty," says ombud. http://journ.us/fu0NX4 #pubmedia 8:07 PM Jan 13th via Twitterrific

jamescridland My answer on Quora to: How can we bring radio, and the spoken word into the 21st century? http://qr.ae/s0ff 2:11 PM Jan 13th via Quora Retweeted by haarsager and 5 others

Mobile > HughesNet FAP RT @Pogue ... The unlimited-data, $40/month Virgin MiFi...will now slow down your connx if you exceed 5GB in a month. 1:06 PM Jan 13th via Twitterrific

iwantmedia CBS may face profit threat from Pandora as Internet radio service pushes into drive-time radio http://bit.ly/g5nDjp 10:21 AM Jan 13th via web Retweeted by haarsager

VideoNuzeNews Study: LTE Can Knock Out Cable TV: http://bit.ly/gjOjsR 7:08 PM Jan 12th via twitterfeed Retweeted by haarsager

jamescridland What a 500MB fair-use policy means for radio: http://j.mp/gdmByV 7:05 PM Jan 12th via TweetDeck Retweeted by haarsager and 4 others

Good advice RT @kulpreetsingh I asked @Scobleizer (Robert Scoble) about his #Canon 5D Mark II #DSLR camera. His response: http://qr.ae/sG9z 5:59 AM Jan 12th via Twitterrific

Good call. RT @Gartenberg Was tempted to use Foursquare. Fortunately the moment passed. 8:07 PM Jan 10th via Twitterrific

@fnjacobs Yes, it's true. But attending CES would spoil the fun of denial. 3:34 PM Jan 10th via TweetDeck in reply to fnjacobs

RT @fnjacobs: What happened at #CES & why radio should care. http://bit.ly/52enB2 - #pubmedia 3:11 PM Jan 10th via TweetDeck

RAINtwitter Take a 'test drive' of new in-car Net radio systems from Toyota, Mini http://bit.ly/81Ld5H 1:26 PM Jan 10th via Tweetie for Mac Retweeted by haarsager

markramseymedia The Most Important Takeaway for Broadcasters from CES via Mark Ramsey Media LLC - I'm struck by reading the ... http://tinyurl.com/4ea2rrc 12:36 PM Jan 10th via FeedBlitz Retweeted by haarsager

markramseymedia Pandora: "we want to be in every single car, on every single phone" http://fb.me/QwsYbUgY 12:34 PM Jan 10th via Facebook Retweeted by haarsager and 2 others

fnjacobs Where was broadcast radio at #CES? Optimism, excitement, & buzz was all over this Vegas convention. http://bit.ly/52enB2 12:21 PM Jan 10th via TweetDeck Retweeted by haarsager and 3 others

Congrats to Integrated Media Ass'n on its "re-energization" and new http://www.integratedmedia.org/ site - we need that energy! #pubmedia 12:11 PM Jan 10th via web

videomarketnews Twenty television predictions for 2011 http://bit.ly/eVBzrm 4:45 PM Jan 9th via twitterfeed Retweeted by haarsager and 2 others

jeffjarvis WSJ says Verizon will bring unlimited data back to the iPhone. Competition works. Why we need more of it. http://on.wsj.com/dWGln9 4:07 PM Jan 9th via Echofon Retweeted by haarsager and 34 others

Rosenblumtv Report from the CES: Internet TV has arrived - and it's going to be a different experience http://bit.ly/giUbBx 7:30 AM Jan 9th via TweetDeck Retweeted by haarsager

mocoNews @ CES: Genachowski: Spectrum Crunch Crippling Wireless http://cnt.to/nfJ 6:38 PM Jan 7th via ContentNext Retweeted by haarsager

RT @xpangler CES: Genachowski: More TV Spectrum Could Be Reclaimed Within Two Years - Multichannel News http://t.co/pElOQsE #CES 9:47 PM Jan 7th via Twitterrific

tomwhiteindc KCET-TV's ratings plunge 50% in first week after PBS exit http://t.co/sxseM3x #pubmedia 6:28 PM Jan 7th via Tweet Button Retweeted by haarsager and 3 others

RAINtwitter TONS of Internet radio news coming out of CES. We continue our roundup today http://bit.ly/rain010611 1:05 PM Jan 6th via web Retweeted by haarsager

TVTechnology The pleasant surprise of mobile TV http://ow.ly/3zt3q 12:46 PM Jan 6th via HootSuite Retweeted by haarsager

tomwhiteindc Mobile DTV Shines at CES 2011, by Doug Lung http://t.co/4o1MTVY #mobile #television 12:34 PM Jan 6th via Tweet Button Retweeted by haarsager

umairh The New (New) Mediaconomy http://bit.ly/etIroi 11:55 AM Jan 6th via TweetDeck Retweeted by haarsager and 6 others

xpangler CEA president and CEO Gary Shapiro: Television broadcasters are “squatting on our broadband future” by not releasing spectrum #CES 11:56 AM Jan 6th via web Retweeted by haarsager and 1 other

TimOlsonSF Cisco’s Videoscape: Ready to Reinvent TV? http://t.co/vePDQLU 10:03 AM Jan 6th via Tweet Button Retweeted by haarsager

Radioheads: if you read just one... RT @fnjacobs How Pandora is rewriting the rules of radio. And making it work. http://bit.ly/52enB2 12:09 PM Jan 6th via Twitterrific

TVTechnology Pocket Peripheral Streams Mobile DTV to Smart Phones http://ow.ly/3zh3W 8:15 AM Jan 6th via HootSuite Retweeted by haarsager

waltmossberg In 4G Race, Verizon's LTE is super-fast, but could be costly. My review: http://t.co/fhE9ZR2 12:59 AM Jan 6th via Tweet Button Retweeted by haarsager and 24 others

davezatz Pandora coming to MINI Cooper dashboards. Me want! http://zatz.tv/em5JOw 4:15 PM Jan 5th via bitly Retweeted by haarsager and 2 others

shelly_palmer With over 250 Netflix-ready devices available, it's no surprise manufacturers are adding a Netflix button to remotes http://bit.ly/fVvJPu 3:44 PM Jan 5th via bitly Retweeted by haarsager

arstechnica AT&T to flip switch on 4G LTE network by mid-2011: http://arst.ch/nq9 by @ericbangeman 3:21 PM Jan 5th via Tweetie for Mac Retweeted by haarsager and 19 others

ecjacobs If you needed another argument for why #pubmedia needs to take the web seriously http://pewrsr.ch/fk6oQJ 3:01 PM Jan 5th via HootSuite Retweeted by haarsager and 2 others

RAINtwitter New BMW/AT&T deal would bring Internet to car dash w/o tethered smartphone -- seamless Net radio! http://bit.ly/rain010511 1:08 PM Jan 5th via web Retweeted by haarsager and 1 other

RAINtwitter We run down some of the big Net radio-related CES announcements -- lots of "in-car" radio http://bit.ly/rain010511 12:54 PM Jan 5th via web Retweeted by haarsager

RAINtwitter Lots of Net radio developments at CES http://bit.ly/rain010511 12:46 PM Jan 5th via web Retweeted by haarsager

mocoNews In all there will be 20 4G devices launched by AT&T in 2011. #mnbuzz 12:42 PM Jan 5th via web Retweeted by haarsager

mocoNews AT&T playing catchup to Verizon, others on LTE: starting roll-out in the middle of this year. Devices from HTC, Motorola. #mnbuzz 12:33 PM Jan 5th via web Retweeted by haarsager

RWW CES 2011: Mobile DTV Coming to an iPhone, iPad Near You http://rww.to/dHYDbW 9:47 PM Jan 4th via Tools Plugin for Movable Type Retweeted by haarsager and 17 others

RT @RAINtwitter: Mercedes, Nokia partner to put Net radio in 2012 C-class cars http://bit.ly/rain010311 4:44 PM Jan 3rd via ÜberTwitter

RT @Kimpflinger: 11 trends for mobile apps in 2011 http://ht.ly/3qhzU 4:41 PM Jan 3rd via ÜberTwitter

RT @RWW: A Milestone for BitTorrent: 100 Million Monthly Active Users http://rww.to/fhqaG3 4:30 PM Jan 3rd via ÜberTwitter

RT @NewTeeVee: Intel Moves DRM Into Chips For PC Streaming http://dlvr.it/CbbR9 4:25 PM Jan 3rd via ÜberTwitter

RT @BoingBoing Groovy 1977 PBS signoff clip (Athens, Ohio) http://bit.ly/gBTRYS #pubmedia 5:08 AM Jan 3rd via Twitterrific

davewiner To people who are concerned about RSS-in-the-browser, Mozilla and Chrome are open source. Let's fork one of them and make it *great* at RSS. 5:06 PM Jan 2nd via web from Civic Center, New York Retweeted by haarsager and 7 others

stevegillmor RT @photomatt: RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried http://bit.ly/huXeZq >> cough 4:47 PM Jan 2nd via news.me Retweeted by haarsager and 38 others

TimOlsonSF Online Newspaper Readers Habits: 2% mobile, 97% PC, 1% iPad: http://on.wsj.com/dD4AwX 3:08 PM Jan 2nd via web Retweeted by haarsager and 1 other

NewTeeVee Cord Cutters Survival Stories: It’s All About Value http://dlvr.it/CW024 3:03 AM Jan 2nd via dlvr.it Retweeted by haarsager and 1 other

RT @nickhalstead Why the iPad is Destroying the Future of Journalism http://retwt.me/1Qolc 6:42 AM Jan 1st via Twitterrific