Subject: [Benton's Communications-related Headlines] April 13, 2007 (Imus canned)

From: Kevin Taglang <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:10:49 -0500

"From the outset, I believe all of us have been 
deeply upset and revulsed by the statements that 
were made on our air about the young women who 
represented Rutgers University ... with such class, energy and talent."
         -- CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves

BENTON'S COMMUNICATIONS-RELATED HEADLINES for 
FRIDAY APRIL 13, 2007 (Yikes! Friday the 13th!)

The telecom policy agenda picks up next week: 1) 
Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the XM 
Sirius merger; 2) the House Telecom Subcommittee 
hears about "Spectrum Opportunities and the 
Future of Wireless"; and there's a First 
responders Summit at the FCC. For these and other 
upcoming media policy events, see http://www.benton.org

BROADCASTING
         Off the Air: The Light Goes Out for Don Imus
         Networks take aim at channel-flipping

CHILDREN & MEDIA
         FTC Issues Report on Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children
         Inouye Signals Support For Bill To Regulate Television Violence
         Senators propose labels for adult Web sites

INTERNET/BROADBAND
         Use spare spectrum for the Net
         Comcast: Profits Behind Net-Neutrality Fight
         CBS in Web distribution deals for its TV shows
         Is cable in Verizon's crosshairs?
         Vonage CEO Snyder Quits, Firm to Cut Jobs
         Women don't click with Internet videos

TELECOM
         Inouye Telecom Agenda
         AT&T vs. the Farm Team

MEDIA & ELECTIONS
         Political Spending Poised to Set Records

QUICKLY -- Will Missing White House E-Mails Be 
Modern Version of Nixon's Tapes?; Saying No to 
Fox News; ACLU Says Hate Crimes Bill Protects Free Speech

BROADCASTING

OFF THE AIR: THE LIGHT GOES OUT FOR BON IMUS
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Bill carter & Jacques Steinberg]
CBS brought a weeklong confrontation over a 
racial and sexual insult by the radio host Don 
Imus to an end yesterday when it canceled the 
“Imus in the Morning” program, effective 
immediately. The move came a day after the cable 
television network MSNBC, a General Electric unit 
that has simulcast Mr. Imus’s radio program for 
the last 10 years, removed the show from its 
morning lineup. The two moves, taken together, 
mean that Mr. Imus, who has been broadcasting the 
program for more than 30 years, no longer has a 
home on either national radio or television. It 
is possible, though, that he could re-emerge on 
satellite radio. The CBS chief executive, Leslie 
Moonves, met yesterday afternoon with the Rev. Al 
Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, leaders in 
what became a national movement to remove Mr. 
Imus from the air in the wake of his comments 
disparaging members of the Rutgers women’s 
basketball team made on April 4. Both CBS and 
MSNBC had been under pressure from black leaders 
and women’s groups, then advertisers began 
abandoning the Imus program and its networks this 
week, pulling out the financial underpinnings from the show.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/business/13imus.html
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* Flying Solo Past the Point of No Return
The toxicity of Mr. Imus’s remark, the innocence 
of his targets, and his refusal to put down the 
shovel — he dug himself deeper just about every 
time he opened his mouth — made last night’s 
decision by CBS to end his show seem almost 
inevitable. Disparate media imperatives were at 
work, but they converged and whipsawed into a self-sustaining frenzy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/business/media/13carr.html
* Behind the Fall of Imus, A Digital Brush Fire
Watchdogs, blogs and emails helped spur the firing.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117641076468168180.html?mod=todays_us_page_one
* Don Imus Is Fired by CBS Radio
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041201007.html
* Why Imus Had to Go
[Commentary] The First Amendment notwithstanding, 
it has always been the case that some speech has 
been off-limits to some people.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041201825.html
* Static Gets Louder for CBS Radio
CBS Radio's firing of disgraced host Don Imus 
yesterday is the latest blow for a company stung 
by multimillion-dollar indecency fines, poor 
financial performance and the loss of top-tier talent in recent years.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041202309.html
* Imus' firing costs CBS
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/money/20070413/1b_imus-biz13.art.htm
* Outrage over Imus shows societal shift
Now that radio's Don Imus has been fired for 
using a racist, sexist slur on the air, what 
about all the other entertainers who regularly 
utter similar words in music, movies and comedy 
routines? If it's not OK for an old white guy to 
say "nappy-headed ho," is it OK for young black guys?
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/life/20070413/wk_imus13.art.htm
* CBS Radio drops the Imus show after 'much discussion' of remarks
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070413/1a_bottomstrip13x_dom.art.htm
* A talk powerhouse is shut down
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-imus13apr13,1,3650823.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage
* Imus' sin: He's stupid
[Commentary] The shock-jock's firing unmasks him 
for what he truly is: an angry adolescent playing adult pundit.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-oe-stein13apr13,1,2699953.column?coll=la-news-a_section
* Democratic politicians lose a soapbox with Imus
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-imuspol13apr13,1,7192086.story?coll=la-news-a_section
* CBS fires Imus
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN1128303020070412
* CBS Cancels Imus in the Morning
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6433090.html

NETWORKS TAKE AIM AT CHANNEL-FLIPPING
[SOURCE: USAToday, AUTHOR: Laura Petrecca]
With TV ratings for just a show's commercials 
about to figure in ad sales negotiations, 
broadcast networks are rolling out a bag of 
tricks to boost ad watching. They are trying 
cartoon humor and trivia mixed into ad breaks, 
starting an ad in the show and even making ads 
into mini-shows. The goal is the same: head off 
channel-flipping or DVR fast-forwarding during 
ads. The tryouts come as Nielsen Media Research 
prepares to offer ratings for commercials at the 
end of May. Traditionally, ad time is priced by 
how many people watch a whole show. Now, Nielsen 
will tally an average for just the ads.
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/money/20070413/1b_commercialbreaks13.art.htm

CHILDREN & MEDIA

FTC ISSUES REPORT ON MARKETING VIOLENT ENTERTAINMENT TO CHILDREN
[SOURCE: Federal Trade Commission press release]
The Federal Trade Commission gave a mixed review 
of the movie, music, and video-game industries’ 
self-regulatory programs and their marketing of 
violent entertainment products to children in its 
latest report to Congress. This fifth follow-up 
report, the most comprehensive study since 2000, 
found that all three industries generally comply 
with their own voluntary standards regarding the 
display of ratings and labels. However, 
entertainment industries continue to market some 
R-rated movies, M-rated video games, and 
explicit-content recordings on television shows 
and Web sites with substantial teen audiences. In 
addition, the FTC found that while video game 
retailers have made significant progress in 
limiting sales of M-rated games to children, 
movie and music retailers have made only modest 
progress limiting sales. “Self-regulation, long a 
critical underpinning of U.S. advertising, is 
weakened if industry markets products in ways 
inconsistent with their ratings and parental 
advisories,” said FTC Chairman Deborah Platt 
Majoras. “This latest FTC report shows 
improvement, but also indicates that the 
entertainment industry has more work to do.” The 
report includes results from the FTC’s latest 
mystery shop where unaccompanied children, ages 
13-16, were sent into retailers to make a 
purchase. The undercover shop found significant 
improvement by video-game retailers, particularly 
in national retail chains, but little or no 
improvement by movie theaters, or DVD and music retailers.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2007/04/marketingviolence.htm
* See report online: 
http://www.ftc.gov/reports/violence/070412MarketingViolentEChildren.pdf
* FTC Violence Marketing Report Shows General Compliance
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6433488.html
* FTC: Violence still marketed to youths
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/business/news/e3ic6293edc770d6c2baa686c15f8395e2a
* FTC says content curbs fall short
http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-ftc13apr13,1,4839601.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-business

INOUYE SIGNALS SUPPORT FOR BILL TO REGULATE TELEVISION VIOLENCE
[SOURCE: Technology Daily 4/10, AUTHOR: David Hatch]
Senate Commerce Chairman Daniel Inouye , 
D-Hawaii, said that he will seek passage of 
contentious legislation sponsored by Sen. John 
(Jay) Rockefeller, D-W.Va., requiring the FCC to 
regulate television violence.  "I'm going to do 
my best," Inouye told CongressDaily when asked if 
he'll try to pass it. "I know there are 
constitutional issues, but somewhere you have to 
make a move and proceed," he said, emphasizing 
that he won't pass unconstitutional language. "If 
we sit around and wait until we believe we have 
the perfect bill, in the meantime, thousands will 
be murdered from lessons they learn on 
television," he said. The bill, to be introduced 
in late April or early May, would represent a 
major departure from the agency's existing 
approach of only penalizing TV and radio stations 
for running afoul of indecency guidelines 
governing sexually explicit and profane content. 
Fueling the legislative push is a report that the 
FCC will soon issue to Congress concluding that 
lawmakers can regulate excessively violent fare 
without violating the First Amendment. Broadcast 
and cable outlets argue that the government 
should not act as censors or intervene in artistic and business decisions.
http://www.njtelecomupdate.com/lenya/telco/live/tb-RJZT1176408282215.html

SENATORS PROPOSE LABELS FOR ADULT WEB SITES
[SOURCE: C-Net|News.com, AUTHOR: Declan McCullagh]
Operators of Web sites with racy content must 
label their sites and register in a national 
directory or be fined, according to a new U.S. 
Senate proposal that represents the latest effort 
among politicians to crack down on Internet sex. 
The requirements appear in legislation announced 
Thursday by two Senate Democrats, Mark Pryor of 
Arkansas and Max Baucus of Montana, that they say 
will "clean up the Internet for children."
http://news.com.com/Senators+propose+labels+for+adult+Web+sites/2100-1028_3-6175549.html?tag=html.alert

INTERNET/BROADBAND

USE SPARE SPECTRUM FOR THE NET
[SOURCE:  Los Angeles Times, AUTHOR: Editorial Staff]
[Commentary]  The Federal Communications 
Commission's goal for an upcoming spectrum 
auction should be to encourage the development of 
more broadband Internet services. The commission 
should heed recommendations from high-tech and 
satellite TV firms, which say a 10% increase in 
the size of the current plan's blocks would allow 
for more types of wireless broadband technology. 
Having more sources of broadband is particularly 
important in rural areas, where high-speed 
Internet service has been scarce.The rules should 
also allow bidders to offer a premium for a 
national set of licenses, which would encourage 
the creation of national broadband networks while 
deterring present broadband suppliers from 
hoarding the airwaves in a single region. Those 
suppliers might still try to buy national 
licenses and offer services that don't compete 
with their DSL offerings. That's why the FCC 
should require that, for at least a portion of 
the spectrum, the winning bidder make its network 
available on a wholesale basis. Such a 
requirement would open the door for independent 
competitors to offer wireless broadband service 
over a leased network. The commission should also 
require that at least some of the new frequencies 
be open to any compatible device or application 
that doesn't interfere with other users of the 
airwaves. That way, consumer electronic companies 
could build and sell devices without having to 
strike deals with network operators.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-ed-spectrum13apr13,1,1208771.story?coll=la-news-a_section
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COHEN: PROFITS BEHIND NET-NEUTRALITY FIGHT
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Ted Hearn]
Companies like Google and Yahoo advocate 
regulation of broadband-access providers 
primarily in efforts to protect their profits in 
a fast-moving and disruptive e-commerce market, 
said Comcast executive vice president David 
Cohen. He said that although net-neutrality 
proponents claim that Internet regulation is 
needed to assist “the next Google,” they really 
intend to stop high-speed-data-network owners 
like cable and phone companies from making 
reasonable returns on their heavy capital 
investments. “When you cut through the rhetoric, 
what they want from the federal government is new 
regulations that would guarantee them below 
cost-access to the broadband networks that carry 
most of the Internet content in this country,” 
Cohen said in a speech to the World Affairs 
Council of Philadelphia. Comcast, the largest 
U.S. cable company, is headquartered in 
Philadelphia. “Mr. Cohen's speech is wrong in 
almost every aspect of his analysis of net 
neutrality,” Public Knowledge communications 
director Art Brodsky said. “His biggest omission 
is that his company -- part of an industry whose 
rates are increasing faster than inflation -- 
wants to have control over the delivery of 
content on the Internet. It wants to play 
favorites and cut deals that would deny some 
Internet users the benefit of the current Web 
experience they have in favor of a lesser one.” 
Brodsky added, “Net neutrality is about 
restricting the ability of monopolists to play 
favorites with a medium everyone needs and uses. 
Cable refuses to commit to an open Internet.”
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6433522.html?rssid=108

CBS IN WEB DISTRIBUTION DEALS FOR ITS TV SHOWS
[SOURCE: Reuters]
CBS Corp. said on Thursday it has created a broad 
Internet distribution channel for its popular 
television programs through deals with 10 
partners, including Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, 
Microsoft Corp.'s MSN and Comcast Corp. With the 
deals, CBS will be able to will deliver such 
shows as crime drama "CSI," "Late Show with David 
Letterman," "Survivor" and "CBS Evening News with 
Katie Couric" to a broader Web audience. The CBS 
Interactive Audience Network is the latest effort 
by a leading media company to add Internet 
audiences for their programs and sell advertising 
for the shows online. Viewers can watch the 
programs for free, with advertising revenue split 
between CBS and its partners. Details of the split were not immediately known.
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN1234065020070412
* Web Firms to Distribute CBS Shows on Internet
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041202092.html

IS CABLE IN VERIZON'S CROSSHAIRS?
[SOURCE: C-Net|News.com, AUTHOR: Marguerite Reardon]
A judge's broad interpretation of patents in 
Verizon's lawsuit against Internet telephony 
provider Vonage could give the phone company 
enough firepower to go after cable operators and 
other voice over Internet Protocol providers. 
It's clear that Verizon may soon file suits 
against other stand-alone VoIP service providers, 
such as 8x8 and SunRocket, as it defends its VoIP 
patents. But some experts say it might also take 
on Internet companies like Skype, EarthLink and 
Yahoo, which offer VoIP services, or cable 
companies, which also sell telephony services 
using VoIP technology. "I believe that anyone 
offering a VoIP service could be a potential 
Verizon target," said Joel Rosenblatt, a 
Florida-based patent attorney who has reviewed 
the patents in question. "These patents appear to 
be so broad that an argument could be made 
against just about any service that allows people 
to make calls from the Internet to a regular phone network."
http://news.com.com/Is+cable+in+Verizons+crosshairs/2100-7352_3-6175725.html?tag=nefd.lede

VONAGE CEO SNYDER QUITS, FIRM TO CUT JOBS
[SOURCE: Multichannel News, AUTHOR: Todd Spangler]
Vonage Holdings announced Thursday that CEO 
Michael Snyder resigned and that it plans to lay 
off 10% of employees and to reduce marketing 
expenses by $110 million on the eve of a federal 
appeals court hearing in its legal fight with 
Verizon Communications. Founder and chairman 
Jeffrey A. Citron was named interim CEO.
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6433239.html?rssid=108
* Vonage’s Chief Executive Steps Down
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/business/13vonage.html>Vonage’s 
Chief Executive Steps Down
* Vonage Replaces CEO, Plans Cost Cuts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041200824.html

WOMEN DON'T CLICK WITH INTERNET VIDEOS
[SOURCE: Reuters]
About 97 million women in the United States will 
use the Internet this year compared with 91 
million men, according to a study by eMarketer. 
But the report also says only 66 percent of those 
women are watching videos online compared to 78 percent of men.
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN1145140520070412

TELECOM

INOUYE TELECOM AGENDA
[SOURCE: Technology Daily 4/10, AUTHOR: David Hatch]
Senate Commerce Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) 
said he plans to introduce legislation updating 
the $7.3 billion universal service program by 
July at the latest. "If you look at the makeup of 
the committee, most of them represent rural 
America. You can't ignore that," Sen Inouye said. 
He might try to move that bill and related ones 
between January and June 2008. "If you don't 
finish up your work next year by June, forget it. 
It's election time." While he favors pursuing a 
series of targeted communications measures 
instead of sweeping legislation, no final 
decision has been made. "That's the question we 
have not resolved yet," he said. The senator 
acknowledged that the targeted approach has a 
weakness: "You can't just work on one aspect and 
not the others." Regarding the digital TV 
transition, Inouye hinted the panel might 
scrutinize a government coupon program designed 
to help Americans purchase equipment needed to 
keep analog sets functioning after the Feb. 17, 
2009 switchover. He echoed Democrats' concerns 
that the effort is underfunded and too 
restrictive, but opposes extending the deadline 
because it sends the wrong message.
http://www.njtelecomupdate.com/lenya/telco/live/tb-RJZT1176408282215.html

AT&T VS THE FARM TEAM
[SOURCE: BusinessWeek, AUTHOR: Lorraine Woellert]
Making money has never been easy for small-town 
phone companies, most of which rely on federal 
subsidies to survive. But two years ago, Ronald 
Laudner, chief executive of Farmers' Telephone, 
in rural Iowa, hit on a lucrative new source of 
profit, thanks to a convoluted federal mandate 
that requires long-distance carriers to pay rural 
phone companies. By the end of 2006 his call 
volume was up twelvefold and annual net revenues 
had doubled, to $2 million. That's when AT&T's 
lawyers came calling. Now Farmers', which serves 
about 1,600 local customers near Riceville, Iowa, 
is among a handful of rural telcos under assault 
from big telecommunications companies. The giants 
complain that the little guys have latched onto a 
lively industry of free conference-call, 
chat-room, and sex-line services that make 
economic sense only because of federal 
regulation. The so-called Universal Service Fund 
was set up to ensure that sparsely populated 
areas of the country could still get affordable 
phone service following the 1984 breakup of the 
Ma Bell monopoly. But the big boys say smaller 
carriers are exploiting loopholes in the program 
and raking in cash from larger players. "This was 
not created to give people access to free porn or 
other seemingly legitimate services," says Qwest 
spokesman Robert Toevs. "From our standpoint it's a pure scam."
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2007/tc20070412_657317.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily

MEDIA & ELECTIONS

POLITICAL SPENDING POISED TO SET RECORDS
[SOURCE: tvnewsday, AUTHOR: Jean Grillo]
Analysts project even more record-breaking sums 
of political spending as the presidential races 
begin. According to Victor Miller, senior 
managing director, Bear Stearns, there is 20% 
more political money in all TV in the 2007-08 
cycle then existed in the 2005-06 campaigns. 
"We're seeing about $2.5 billion for all TV 
political versus $2.1 billion," Miller remarked 
during today's TVB "Political: Probing the Mother 
Lode" panel. "2007 state and local political 
spending is driving first- and second-quarter 
earnings in local broadcast," added Evan Tracey, 
COO, Campaign Media Analysis Group, TNS Media 
Intelligence. "Political continues to be a 
growing part of the pie for local TV," Tracy 
added. "We just had a State Supreme Court race in 
Wisconsin that generated over $2 million in TV ad 
spending." According to Tracey, broadcast is 
still the biggest megaphone, but cable is making 
deeper in-roads, “especially since politicians 
like to advertise on news shows and cable has 
24/7 news." The calendar, not the candidates, 
looms as a larger threat, however, to growing 
political revenues. A growing number of states 
are moving their primaries to the Feb. 5 Super 
Tuesday date, with only Iowa, New Hampshire, 
Nevada and South Carolina earlier (in January).
http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2007/04/12/daily.17/
* Political Ads During the Super Bowl? (Associated Press)
As states line up to hold presidential primaries 
on the first Tuesday in February, the Feb. 3 
Super Bowl could look super inviting and super 
expensive to presidential campaigns eager to deliver a knockout punch.
http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2007/04/12/daily.16/

QUICKLY

WILL MISSING WHITE HOUSE E-MAILS BE MODERN VERSION OF NIXON TAPES?
[SOURCE: Associated Press]
President Bush's aides are lying about White 
House e-mails sent on a Republican account that 
might have been lost, Senate Judiciary Committee 
Chairman Patrick Leahy said Thursday, vowing to 
subpoena those documents if the administration 
fails to cough them up. He and other Democrats 
want to know if White House officials such as 
political adviser Karl Rove are purposely 
conducting sensitive official presidential 
business via non-governmental accounts to evade a 
law requiring preservation -- and eventual 
disclosure -- of presidential records.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003571023
* Missing E-Mail May Be Related to Prosecutors
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/13/washington/13emails.html?hp
* Rove E-Mail Sought by Congress May Be Missing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041202408.html
* Controversy escalates over missing e-mails
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-emails13apr13,1,1388081.story?coll=la-news-a_section

SAYING NO TO FOX
[SOURCE: Washington Post, AUTHOR: E. J. Dionne Jr.]
[Commentary]  I have this mischievous suspicion 
that Roger Ailes, the creator and chairman of Fox 
News, secretly admires the bloggers and other 
activists working to keep Democratic presidential 
candidates from debating on his cable network. To 
be sure, Ailes will never say this. On the 
contrary, he is furious that MoveOn.org and 
others have struck a chord in arguing that 
Democrats have no business creating any formal 
link with a network that so openly favors 
conservative and Republican causes. What Ailes 
knows is that the campaign to block Fox from 
sponsoring Democratic debates is the most 
effective liberal push-back against the 
network  since its debut on Oct. 7, 1996. My 
hunch is that Ailes, one of the toughest and 
smartest in a generation of Republican political 
consultants, sees his adversaries as playing the 
kind of political hardball he respects. It's why he's angry.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041201821.html
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ACLU SAYS HATE CRIMES BILL PROTECTS FREE SPEECH
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
Under a bill introduced by Senators Edward 
Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) and 
supported by the American Civil Liberties Union, 
bigoted comments would still be considered 
protected speech. But the bill, the Local Law 
Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007, 
would allow federal law enforcement officers to 
more easily investigate and prosecute hate 
crimes. The bill punishes only the conduct of 
targeting someone for violence because of  race, 
color, national origin, religion, gender, sexual 
orientation, gender identity or disability. It 
allows bigoted speech or association with hate 
groups as evidence, but only if it is directly 
related to the crime. The FCC has received 
complaints about the racist comments of radio 
shock jock Don Imus , but its regulatory 
authority does not extend to bigoted comments 
short of hate speech that incites violence, 
similar to the limitation in the new bill.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6433544.html
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