Given the non-ad ads on that are on KUT all the damn time, I wondered when this would happen. The article doesn't say what station was fined, however.

Here's an mp3 audio file of actor Tim Robbin's address to the National Association of Broadcasters convention. In the speech, he decries the current state of discourse in the media.

Ranking of the fifty largest radio markets in the US. Austin is 42nd.

I used to wonder why UNT's jazz station's call letters were KNTU instead of... Apparently folks in Denton are smarter than folks in Maui

I tend to agree with this in principle, but I don't think the rules that were in place until 1987 make sense today.

Punch in your Zip code, and this little Web app will show you a map of broadcast facilities in your area, and what interests own what media properties.

While TV news crews think they may be off the air, some feeds are still available live online. During yesterday's coverage of a plane crash in Manhattan, a local reporter told the internets a camera was "a hunk of junk."

Steve Safran of Lost Remote discusses the impact the convergence of broadcast media and the web will have on various media industry segments.

First Adbusters, now MoveOn has an ad rejected by broadcasters for having an anti-corporate message. It won't happen under this adminstration, but the FCC needs to regulate advertising, so these opinions can enter the "marketplace of ideas."

This is probably only interesting to people who study TV, but Warner Bros. is offering stations who buy syndicated reruns of "Two and a Half Men" the opportunity to stream the show online - if Warners gets half the online ad revenue.

Good for them.