"I would encourage the FCC to take a very hard look at whether something that is this pervasive, something that is so corrosive to the integrity of the market place should not merely be investigated and pursued, but whether some of these stations deserve to have their licenses stripped," said Spitzer at the downtown Manhattan press conference trumpeting the settlement. "They know what the law is and they have been disregarding it willfully and pervasively."
UonTV Debuts Do-It-Yourself TV Broadcasting: "UonTV LLC today announced a revolutionary new satellite TV service enabling anyone to digitally broadcast TV programs to a nationwide audience for as little as $20. Businesses, churches, organizations, sports leagues and consumers will now have the same power to broadcast as the biggest cable, satellite and network media companies. UonTV technology makes nationwide TV broadcasting as easy as transferring a file from your PC."
John Bayliss Press Release - Scholarships: "The Board of Directors of The John Bayliss Broadcast Foundation has announced that 12 college and graduate-level students at colleges and universities nationwide have each been awarded a $5,000 Bayliss Radio Scholarship for the 2005 -2006 academic year. These ambitious students are pursuing a wide spectrum of goals in or relating to the radio industry, ranging from programming, announcing and engineering to broadcast journalism, teaching and station management. They were selected to receive the Bayliss Scholarship because of their academic achievement and extracurricular radio activities, their passion for radio and their desire to contribute to the overall advancement of the radio industry. The Bayliss Foundation continues to help today�s students become the broadcast leaders of tomorrow. The colleges and universities represented are:
Central Michigan University Central Michigan University Emerson College Howard University Ithaca College Michigan State University Monmouth University Pepperdine University Syracuse University Thomas More College University of Southern California University of Texas at AustinRecipients:
Sean Johnston Mark Levin Lee Tyler Karen Lawson Dan Henning Brock Edward Elsesser Thomas Hanley Keith Gormley Steve Flamisch Andrew Curran Daniel Konecky Kathleen Motheral"
Radio Ink -Agents Raid, Shut Down Unlicensed Radio Station: "Dayn Reardon was one of several supporters of the station who watched the raid. "This is a fight over free speech,' said Reardon, who vowed that staff and listeners will hold fundraisers and buy new equipment to get the station back on the air at an undisclosed location. "
Internet TV scheduled for 2007 - vnunet.com: "An internet connected TV could be made part of a home network, offering access to digital photos and music stored on computers elsewhere in the home. Internet TV uses a next-generation high-speed internet connection such as DSL2 or VDSL2 to transmit high quality streaming video into the home."
Radio Ink - Hummer Prank = suit: "A listener is suing a California radio station she said promised her a new Hummer H2 and instead gave her a remote-controlled model as an April Fools' Day prank.
Shannon Castillo sued KBDS in Taft, CA, after it presented her the toy car for winning a weeklong 'contest' in which listeners were supposed to track the number of miles two H2s traveled around town. "
