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National Association of Broadcasters places ads about DTV transition deadline in bus shelters in high-traffic areas in downtown Washington, D.C.

Broadcasters take aim at cable programmers attempting to overturn FCC's order requiring cable operators to carry must-carry TV stations in analog and digital if necessary.

NAB trying to get provision removed from House FCC appropriations bill that would prevent it from implementing relaxation of newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership ban.

The National Association of Broadcasters' latest poll found that 90% of those surveyed were aware of the Feb. 17, 2009, switch to digital by full-power TV stations, up from 83% in January.

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.”

Las Vegas -- Hulu CEO Jason Kilar hinted that the video site co-founded by NBC Universal and News Corp. could find its way to other platforms, saying that many of them, such as mobile phones, would be "ripe for the Hulu experience."

Las Vegas -- Consumers who receive a $40 coupon from the government to subsidize the purchase of a digital-to-analog converter box should act fast, said NBC Universal vice president Bob Okun, who heads the network’s lobbying efforts in Washington, D.C.

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.