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Rules & Regs: The
Washington Post’s
Cecilia Kang reports California’s tech giants are strongly lobbying against a California bill “that would require users’ [minors] permission to display personal information such as home addresses and phone numbers.” --- As
Stifel Nicolaus’
Rebecca Arbogast and
David Kaut report, the
Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act is being pushed hard: “Leading the charge is
Senate Commerce Committee Chair
Rockefeller (D-WV), who along with four other Democratic senators held a press conference yesterday to urge passage ... by the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks (a public safety network was a recommendation of the national 9/11 commission). While we didn’t hear much new, we believe the advocacy reflects an intensity that is noteworthy because it will be needed to overcome all the obstacles.” ---
FCC plans a public forum “aimed at helping consumers navigate location-based services” on June 28th from 9 to 3 @ HQ.
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Retrans & Renewals: The
American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research (click
here) is weighing into the retrans debate with a paper insisting, “Based on the high and rising prices for over-the-air programming, it is clear that distributors are at a disadvantage when it comes to negotiating with broadcasters. This means that consumers are the big losers of retransmission consent – both by potential blackouts and paying higher prices for years to come.” Hard to tell from the web site just who backs them, though.
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Folks:
Jon Stewart’s studio audience last night booed new
Comcast exec and soon-to-be former
FCC Commissioner
Meredith Atwell Baker as
The Daily Show ran a segment called, “Well, That Was Fast.” --- Coast-to-coast and in between newspaper editorials, blogs and hallway gossip is piling on, too ... even out in the
Seattle Times (“So much for ethics and public service; it’s time to get paid.”). Very unusual tone deaf moves from Comcast’s
David Cohen and
Kyle McSlarrow. Of course, it’ll all blow over. -
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Online: A later window for
Hulu? That’s the buzz as renewals loom. ---
dishonline.com adds more
Turner nets (with TV everywhere authenticating).
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Retail:
In-Stat predicts the 3DTV market will jump 500% in ’11 driven by European sales. ---
BBC is thinking of doing Wimbledon in 3D.
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Heads-Up: Read about
Bitcoin here at
Business Insider. --- Meanwhile,
ISIS wants Silicon Valley giants and
Sprint to join its mobile payments initiative.
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Measurements & Ratings:
Rentrak has integrated the 1st wave of
Epsilon's anonymous demographics/lifestyle info into its local TV measurements.
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Spectrum/Bandwidth:
SNL Kagan’s
Christina M. Mitchell reports
Verizon’s COO/Prez
Lowell McAdam (who once was CEO of
Verizon Wireless) said the spectrum crunch made
AT&T +
T-Mobile “inevitable.” ---
Clearwire picked
Ericsson (which might bid for
Nortel patents) as its Wi-Max outsource.
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