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National Association of Broadcasters places signage at airports in Denver, Minneapolis-St. Paul to remind convention attendees of DTV transition.

National Association of Broadcasters board joint chairman Jack Sander stresses digital-TV transition over retransmission-consent talks.

National Association of Broadcasters’ board of directors asks members to put four-week lock on negotiating retransmission-consent agreements around time of DTV conversion.

National Association of Broadcasters to file in support of Fox, in opposition to FCC's challenge.

The National Association of Broadcasters said the FCC's localism proposals are based on faulty premises, are unnecessary and, if passed, could decrease, not increase, public service to communities.

Some, it argued, could even have devastating consequences for broadcasters.

A source confirmed that Pam Magnani, formerly senior vice president, conferences and meetings for the National Association of Broadcasters, is no longer with the association, which was first reported by TVNewsday.

For broadcasters and vendors that have been plotting their digital futures for more than one decade at National Association of Broadcasters shows, sometime during last week’s convention, they must have stopped and observed, “Wow.

This is the last analog NAB.”

The National Association of Broadcasters got support Wednesday in its fight against proposed new localism obligations.

More than 120 legislators signed onto a letter to FCC chairman Kevin Martin asking him not to impose any localism mandates on broadcasters.

Las Vegas -- They weren’t all singing Kumbaya, but at a National Association of Broadcasters session here Monday, leaders of the cable and broadcast industries pledged cooperation toward getting the digital transition to happen without major casualties, and both sides saw potential pluses.

Las Vegas -- Actor Tim Robbins, noting that he has been labeled a traitor for previous comments he made about this nation and its pre-emptive war in Iraq, pre-empted a planned dialogue on new media at the National Association of Broadcasters' annual show and launched a humorous, profanity-laden attack on both the state of the country and the consolidation of viewpoints being carried by national media.

“We are at an abyss as an industry and as a country,” Robbins said.