How’s Your Lobbyist Doing? NAB Just Won a Nice One!

One time lobbyist for both cable and wireless FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler kind of wanted to revisit the socalled network nonduplication and syndicated exclusivity rules Definition here courtesy of friends at ACA The NAB demurred and then rallied a lengthy list of serving politicians who politely suggested that now is not the time to visit this issue without more studying by the right folksamp160 So the FCC paid attention to the organized noise and put it on holdamp160 There it just may sit for the life of the FCCNice winamp160 But it got me thinking do you know the lobbyists the good ones that is who are on your sideamp160 Luckily The Hill just published a list of DCamp8217s bestamp160 Hereamp8217s a short rundown of those amp8220bestamp8221 in The Hillamp8217s order who work primarily on broadly speaking media issues You can see the full lists hereAssociation Bests Meredith Atwell Baker and Jot Carpenter of CTIA The Wireless Assoc Michael Beckerman of The Internet Assoc Chris Dodd of the Motion Picture Assoc of America Michael Powell of the National Cable ampamp Telecommunications Assoc amp160Gary Shapiro of the Consumer Electronics Assoc and Gordon Smith of NABHired Gun Bests Elizabeth Frazee and Sharon Ringley of TwinLogic Strategies John Oamp8217Neill and Manny Rossman of Harbinger Strategies and David Urban and Manus Cooney of American Continental Group Those embroiled in an intellectual property battle need look no further than Urban and his crewCorporate Bests William Carty of Twitter Pablo Chavez of LinkedIn James Cicconi and Tim McKone of ATampampT Matt Gelman and Fred Humphries of Microsoft Jessica HerreraFlanigan of Univision Joel Kaplan of Facebook and Melissa Maxfield of ComcastAll of the above have a lot of work cut out for them in the coming monthsamp160 That is if anything resembles normal in the futureRandom NotesMy book The Revolutionary Evolution of the Media continues Read the latest chapter here or go here to read it from the beginningAn inadvertent fallout of the longrunning Cable Card odyssey popped up in Oklahoma as a jury in a Federal court decided Cox Cable does indeed coerce subscribers who want a premium channel to lease a settop box STB amp8230 never mind the existence of TiVo DirecTV Dish and other optionsamp160 Best coverage is from the Hollywood ReporterSimilar cases are active in other jurisdictions which for plaintiffs could be a 19 million windfallamp160 Or notamp160 The jury clearly didnamp8217t believe despite the evidence the 57735 residents in the greater Cox footprint with Cable Cards in someone elseamp8217s not Coxamp8217 STB countedLet me get this straight Republican candidates didnamp8217t like the CNBC moderatorsamp8217 questions so the Republican National Committee amp8220suspendsamp8221 NBCamp8217s next chance to sort of host along with the very conservative National Review another amp8220debateamp8221 amp8230 gee wonder how those folks standing up on stage would handle difficult situations in the Oval Officeamp160 I get it Some most of the questions were gotchas So A couple of the candidates flatout lied when amp8220answeringamp8221 a couple of the gotchas amp8230 but that doesnamp8217t seem to matter to anyone but a factchecker or twoamp160 Just sayinamp8217amp160 Gotta give credit to Ted Cruzamp8217 TV instinctsamp160 He certainly knows how to do a amp8220debateamp8221amp160 Actually it resembled a fourth grade recess shouting and whining matchamp160 Nice moves by Marco Rubio to parry Jeb Bushamp8217s semisabre thrustamp160 After saying he was frightened by all of his comrade candidates who arenamp8217t ready for Oval Office prime time John Kasich is campaigning with the Terminator you know Jarl Mohnamp8217s one time neighbor Arnold Schwarzeneggeramp160 And Rush Limbaugh says CNBC you know the financial network that isnamp8217t Fox Business is amp8220Democrat mediaamp8221amp160 Still bet the RNC amp8220unsuspendsamp8221 NBC because you know NBC owns Telemundo and somebody needs its viewersamp160 Let me know when something in this Presidential race makes any sense at allThe opinions and points of view expressed in this commentary are exclusively the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillageMyersBizNet management or associated bloggers

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