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From The Beachwood TV Desk Inbox
1. “USA Network’s national Show Us Your End Zone Dance Competition is coming to Chicago on Tuesday, June 5. The competition was created to celebrate the second season premiere of the hit series Necessary Roughness airing on USA Network, Wednesday, June 6th at 9pm CST.”
Never heard of it. Let’s take a look-see.
Hey, that’s not bad. So what are they doing holding an end zone dance competition? I mean, please.
Posted on May 31, 2012
By Justin Elliott/ProPublica
After years of consideration, the Federal Communications Commission finally voted last month to require broadcasters to post online political ad data currently kept only on paper at the stations. Yet it’s unclear when the data – which will provide a detailed picture of campaign and super PAC ad spending – will actually begin to be posted.
The National Association of Broadcasters sued to stop the rule last week, asking a federal appeals court in Washington to declare the measure unlawful. But even if the lawsuit fails, the earliest broadcasters will have to begin submitting data to a new FCC website is July, three months after the FCC’s vote. And it could be delayed until later in the summer, into the fall, or beyond.
The reason for the slow rollout? A law called the Paperwork Reduction Act.
Posted on May 30, 2012
By The Beachwood Public Access Affairs Desk
“Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson expresses his dissatisfaction with AT&T’s treatment of community PEG channels.”
Posted on May 25, 2012
‘Greatest Thing Since The Wheel’
“The inventor of the television remote control has died at the age of 96, his former employer has said,” the BBC reports.
“Zenith Electronics said Eugene Polley passed away of natural causes on Sunday at a Chicago hospital.
“His 1955 invention, Flash-Matic, pointed a beam of light at photo cells on each corner of the TV, turning it off and on and changing the channels.”
Posted on May 24, 2012
By Justin Elliott/ ProPublica
The National Association of Broadcasters is asking a federal appeals court to block a rule passed by the Federal Communications Commission last month requiring TV stations to post political ad data on the Internet.
In a petition for review filed Monday with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., the broadcast industry group argues that the rule is “arbitrary, capricious, in excess of the Commission’s statutory authority inconsistent with the First Amendment, and otherwise not in accordance with law.”
The association represents, among others, the parent companies of NBC, CBS, Fox and the broadcasting arm of the Washington Post.
Posted on May 23, 2012
By The Beachwood International Bureau
And this is (some of) what they saw.
1. Al Jazeera (English).
Posted on May 22, 2012
By The Beachwood My Boys Affairs Desk
She’s baaaack!
Not that Spiro herself was so much the problem with one of our all-time favorite whipping boys. But a mob doctor?
The early descriptions are not promising – but wait ’til you see the trailer.
“Hour centers on a young female surgeon who juggles her career and her lifelong debt to the South Chicago mob,” Variety reports.
As opposed to the Irish and Nigerian mobs that Jennifer Beals had to contend with on Chicago Code.
Posted on May 15, 2012
At Least 10 Have Come Before You
“The producers of the ABC reality series Shark Tank are on a nationwide search to discover the next successful (and possibly wealthy) entrepreneurs, inventors, businesspersons, creators and innovators,” ABC says on its Shark Tank website. “In each episode, budding entrepreneurs are given the unprecedented chance to make their business grow immediately.”
Go on.
Posted on May 10, 2012
The Difference Between Reality And Actuality
The Wiener’s Circle on TV:
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The Wiener’s Circle in Reality:
Posted on May 5, 2012
