Michael Jackson was 50 years old. (Los Angeles Times)

Michael Jackson transcended boundaries. (Los Angeles Times)

Michael Jackson's career was the first career of a great music pop star that was shaped by TV. (Los Angeles Times)

With people looking for news about Michael Jackson, some Web sites crashed. (New York Times)

Walter Cronkite is seriously ill, according to a family statement. href=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/arts/television/26arts-CRONKITEISSE_BRF.html?_r=1&ref=television> (New York Times)

President Barack Obama has announced his intent to nominate Meredith Attwell Baker for a Republican position on the five-person FCC. (TV Newsday)

The Senate has confirmed Julius Genachowski as head of the Federal Communications Commission and Robert McDowell for a second FCC term. (Associated Press)

The Chinese Health Ministry has ordered sharp restrictions on Internet access to medical research papers on sexual subjects. It is the latest move in what the ministry calls an antipornography campaign that many China experts see as a harbinger of a broader crackdown on freedom of expression and dissent. href=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/world/asia/26china.html?ref=technology> (New York Times)

Senior U.S. officials are pressuring the Chinese government to shelve a proposed rule that would require all computers shipped in China to be equipped with Web-filtering software, citing concerns that the order may violate China's commitments under the World Trade Organization. (Washington Post)

Google is welcoming new users to its voice service. (New York Times)

How to securely manage passwords. (New York Times)

With the DTV transition millions lose TV reception, but few complain. (Media Daily News)

In the DTV transition, VHF channels seem to be a particular problem for reception. href=http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2009/06/18/daily.5/> (TV Newsday)

The FCC is confident the DTV VHF channel problems can be resolved. href=http://www.multichannel.com/article/294830-FCC_Spokesman_VHF_Issues_Solvable.php> (Multichannel News)

Boston NBC affiliate WHDH channel 7 is experiencing signal and reception problems with DTV. href=http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/06/17/signal_glitch_weakens_whdh_tvs_digital_strength/> (Boston Globe)

Walter Cronkite is reported to be ill. (TV Newser)

In Iran, activists are using Twitter and other Web tricks as a way around the Iranian government's censorship. (Boston Globe)

Radical Islamic groups are using the Web as a major tool. (Associated Press)

Facebook has surpassed MySpace in the U.S., growing 97% in the past year, while MySpace dropped by 5%. Twitter has also grown sharply. (eMarketer)

CBS News has revamped its CBSNews.com Web site. (Radio Business Report)

The Congressional Black Caucus wonders why there are not more people of color as guest pundits on the network and cable news channel political talk shows and interview programs. (Television Business Report)

Howard Stern radio sports sidekick and self-described homophobe Artie Lange is banned from HBO. (New York Post)

Shepard Smith gives the Fox News Channel an even-handed voice. (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)

Glenn Beck says "I'm not a journalist. If I wanted to be a journalist, I would be Charlie Rose and bore the snot out of people and have fourteen people watching me." On politics? "My personal belief is that the Republican Party itself is either dead or will soon be dead in the way it is understood." (GQ)

Live At Five on New York's WNBC channel 4 is ending a 30-year run, being replaced by LX, a fashion show. (New York Daily News)

Former CBS News president Andrew Heywood says broadcasters should "get the show biz out of the new biz." (TV Newsday)

Tim Russert of NBC's Meet The Press is dead for a full year, and is remembered by fellow TV journalists. (TV Newser) (Politico)

Internet video businesses started by Disney, NBC, AOL, HBO have not succeeded. (Los Angeles Times)

Broadcast executives are debating whether to charge for Hulu. (Media Daily News)

DVRs give some shows big ratings boosts. (USA Today)

The great disappearing TV theme song. (New York Daily News)

Facebook and Twitter help stations build audience. (Boston Globe)

Facebook now has a lobbyist in Washington. (Washington Post)

China is holding firm on its demand that all computers sold in China after July 1 be equipped with filters to pornography and other material can be cenbsored. (New York Times)

Members of Congress question how Facebook, Google and Yahoo use personal data. (New York Times)

Google has imnproved its book search feature. (New York Tinmes)

Apple's upgrade servers have been overloaded by legions of iPhone users eager to get the latest version of the device's software, which was publicly released Wednesday afternoon. (New York Times)

Philadelphia area PBS station WHYY-TV channel 12 - licensed to Delaware - is proposing to eliminate its nightly Delaware newscast, which dates back to 1963, and selling its Delaware studios. (Wilmington News Journal) A Delaware newscast will be offered on the Web by WHYY. (Wilmington News Journal)

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. may dissolve Fox Interactive, costing 300 their jobs. (Silicon Alley Insider)

Fox introduces Family Guy in an iPhone application. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Profit rises 33% for the maker of Blackberry. (New York Times)

The cofounder of Flickr has started a new Internet service, Hunch, which assists in decision-making. (San Jose Mercury News)

Major court award in music download case: music labels win $2 million award. (Minneapolis Star Tribune) (Bloomberg News)

There is a Mongolian language program on TV in Arlington, Virginia. (Washington Post)

ABC unveils reorganized operations. (Los Angeles Times)

The apprehension of 2 journalists from Al Gore's Current TV put pressure on the strategies of the new media. (Associated Press)

FLO TV is now in operation in Boston, Miami, Houston and San Francisco, and is scheduled to begin service by the end of the year in 39 other martkets. (San Francisco Chronicle)

There are Web sites that lend a hand in moving. (Washington Post)

Greenpeace spoofs The International Herald Tribune and the Paris-based newspaper objects. (Associated Press)

A new map lets users of Interent sex offender lists track the proximity of sex offenders. (Washington Post)

The "supersized" Kindle comes with some tradeoffs. (Seattle Times)

The hundreds of news stories about the DTV switch for some reason always left out that TV stations would transmit with only 20% of the power they had used for analog. This was known by the FCC, which assigned WCBS-TV channel 2 New York City and WFSB channel 3 Hartford to the same channel - channel 33. WCBS and WFSB would never be on the same channel in analog. As channel 2 and 3, they both came in clearly in the Fairfield County town of Stratford, Connecticut and other locations in Connecticut and on Long Island with an outside aerial aimed at Manhattan. The FCC did this while saying TV stations' coverage areas would be roughly the same as with analog transmission. Also similarly, Philadelphia and New York City channels were placed on the same channel with DTV. Analog TV bends over hills while digital just stops dead - so in hilly areas like the Naugatuck Valley of Connecticut or in Northwest New Jersey, TV reception over the air may be lost entirely in some spots. And what about West Virginia and Colorado and other Western states? WPVI channel 6 Philadelphia is having major problems with its DTV signal for viewers less than 20 miles from the DTV transmitter. (Broadcasting & Cable In the New York City market, viewers as close to Manhattan as Queens and Westchester County report major problems. (New York Radio Message Board)
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With DTV stations transmit at 20% of the power. That means the signals are slightly less than half as strong as they were when transmitting in analog. Take the square root of the multiple of the power increase or decrease, and that will give you the strength. Thus, a station increasing from 250 watts to 1,000 watts will be 2 times as strong, not 4 times as strong, at any given location, since the square root of 4 is 2. So at any given location, where the signal is 2 millivolts (the measure of signal strength) at 250 watts, it will become 4 millivolts with 1,000 watts)

Many viewers are still struggling with DTV reception. (New York Times)

Two major Washington, D.C. TV stations disappear from TV screens after transition to digital: WJLA (ABC) channel 7 and WUSA (CBS) channel 9. (Washington Post)

DTV is still elusive for some. (Los Angeles Times)

Reception problems for TV viewers after the digital transition remain. (Associated Press)

There are still 2.5 million homes that have not made the switch to digital television. (San Francisco Chronicle)

There are bills proposed in Congress to further assist viewers with digital TV reception. (Broadcasting & Cable)

One viewer discusses getting rid of his analog television set. (Washington Post)

A 27-year-old employee working at the U.S. State Department on social networking issues is credited with convincing the government and Twitter not to shut down Twitter for scheduled maintenance as previously planned, because of the on-going demonstrations in Iran over the weekend election results. (Bay Newser) (Computerworld)

The Pirate Bay helps Iranians objecting to the election results, to avoid censorship. (Associated Press)

The attempted Iranian government's media crackdown following the election has met the Internet age. (Associated Press)

The Persian News Network is finding new life in the contested Iranian election. (Washington Post)

Iran is expanding its media and Internet clampdown. (Associated Press)

CNN was able to receive instant feedback from viewers on its coverage of the Iranian election and its aftermath, with Twitter. (New York Timnes)

There is a consensus among media companies that advertising alone cannot pay for Internet news operations, and that it will have to be advertising plus subcriptions. href=http://www.newser.com/off-the-grid/post/173/old-media-why-the-end-takes-a-long-time-to-get-to.html> (Newser)

A poll shows the Internet is the most popular source for news. (Reuters)

A new Website, Jelli.Net allows listeners to vote on which music will be played. (San Francisco Chronicle)

How MySpace fell off the pace and fell behind competing social networking site Facebook. (Los Angeles Times)

MySpace is laying off 30% of its staff. (Los Angeles Timnes)

Is Facebook a phenomenon or a fad? (San Jose Mercury News)

Former Google executives are tackling Web security. (San Francisco Chronicle)

A sophisticated online crime ring has been detected. (San Francisco Chronicle)

A hacker cracked a rival, redirecting millions ot Twitter users to unwanted destinations. (Associated Press)

The state of California says child labor laws were broken in the making of a video about California's famous octuplets. (Associated Press)

Despite a bleak economy and higher prices for Internet service, people are continuing to upgrade to high-speed online connections, according to a new survey. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Ultra-orthodox Jews can surf the web, thanks to a new Rabbi-approved search engine. Hailed as the "kosher search engine," the Hebrew-language Koogle allows observant Jews to troll the Internet without breaking religious rules or taboos. (London Daily Telegraph) (San Francisco Chronicle)

With the demise of many home remodelinmg and construction magazines, Web sites and Internet blogs are taking their place. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Cisco technology is changing the way fans watch sports. (San Jose Mercury News)

First impressions of the iPhone OS 3.0 (San Francisco Chronicle)

Is YouTube losing money, and if so, how much? (Associated Press)

Children-friendly notebooks. (PC World)

A Web site makes the California state government budget mess a game. (San Francisco Chronicle)

The Internal Revenue Service is giving mixed signals about use of work cell phones. (Los Angeles Times)

A Japanese hiker who became lost in the northern New Mexico mountains and later died in a crash of the helicopter that rescued her called 911 seven times before being connected to an emergency dispatcher. (KOAT-TV channel 7 Albuquerque)

Live baseball games are being streamed into iPhones. (New York Times)

Sirius XM satellite radio is launching an iPhone application. (Reuters)

Sirius XM will increase listener fees to cover music royalty payments.

MTV is airing a show that is airing a show that is interactive with viewers, using Twitter. (New York Times)

Some well-known names find they have to work hard at keeping squatters from claiming similar-sounding Web addresses. (New York Times)

Bob Slade, news director of black oriented New York City FM station WRKS 98.7 is looking for more black radio talk shows. (New York Daily News)

CBC - the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - maintains it is not PBS - nor should it be. (Windsor, Ontario Star)

The last of the AM clear channel CBC radio stations audible in the East during hours of darkness is moving to the FM band. This means listeners in the eastern U.S. will no longer hear English-language CBC programs at night on the AM band. CBE, at 1550 in Windsor, Ontario has been granted authority to move to 97.5 FM. In recent years, all the other CBC clear channel AM stations have moved to FM, including CBL 740 Toronto, CBM 940 Montreal, CBA 1070 Moncton, New Brunswick, as well as French language CBF 690 Montreal and CBJ 1580 Chicoutimi, Quebec. Only all-French CJBC 860 Toronto remains. (All Access)

Sarah Palin is hardly David Letterman's best friend, but she has helped him in the ratings. (New York Times)

Sarah Palin accepted David Letterman's apology, but the protest against Letterman goes on. (Reuters)

Rupert Murdoch has sold the Weekly Standard magazine. (Washington Examiner)

South Florida donors are seeking to save Venezuela's Globovision TV station, which is under pressure from Hugo Chavez. (Miami Herald)

The detention of 2 American journalists from Al Gore's Current TV by North Korea has put the spotlight on Current TV. (Associated Press)

Tom Brokaw has been tapped for a White House commission. (Broadcasting & Cable)

ABC News promises Republicans coverage of health care issue will not be a Barack Obama infomercial. ()New York Daily News)

A Clear Channel deal gives musicians Web channels. (Reuters)

The usually hot network TV ad sales are frozen. (Los Angeles Times)

Herb Scannell has been elected chairman of the Board Of Trustees of New York City public radio talker WNYC-820 AM/93.9FM. He currently serves as chairman of Next New Networks and previously was vice chairman of MTV Networks.. (DCRTV)

Former Associated Press and Dallas Morning News executive Burl Osborne has taken the helm at Freedom Newspapers, which include the Orange County Register. (Associated Press)

Associated Press is eyeing better deals with Internet heavyweights. (Associated Press)

In the wake of the fatal shooting at the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., Web sites with information about the suspect in the shooting - an 88-year-old white supremacist - began eliminating information about him. (Washington Post)

The Internet is rife with Nazi Holocaust deniers, anti-Semites, and anti-Semitism. (Washington Post)

A Miami Herald reporter had a run-in with the anti-Semite charged in the shooting at the Holocaust Museum this week, back in 1994 when the reporter was working for the Easton, Maryland Star Democrat and the man charged in the shooting was running an anti-Semitic telecast on the Easton cable TV system. (Miami Herald)

Thirteen/WNET has a special FAQ page about the transition to all digital television broadcasting. (WNET)

Rabbit Ears.info lists the statikons and the new channels they will occupy as digital broadcasters. They will continue to identify themselves over the air andin marketing with the old channel numbers. Thus, WNBC channel 4 New York will be on channel 28 but will still identify as channel 4. (Rabbit Ears.info)

Another site lists which channels the viewer should expected to receive at his or her location. (TV Fool)

The legal advisor for the FCC, Jessica Almond, answers questions about the digital transition. (Washington Post)

The FCC says it expects few problems with the transition to all digital telecasting. (Reuters)

It's digital transition time. (mocoNews)

The end of analog TV broadcast and start of digital only telecasting is here. Is the viewer ready? (Houston Chronicle)

There is a last day scramble for the digital TV transition. (Boston Globe)

The DTV switchover means viewers' options grow. (Houston Chronicle)

Broadcast television's switch to digital telecasting is finally here. (Miami Herald)

A smooth transition to DTV is expected. (Los Angeles Times)

HD is changing the face of beauty - on and off TV. (Denver Post)

Viewers in Chicago will still be able to watch the local newscasts of WMAQ channel 5 and WGN-TV channel 9 in analog, even though full power TV stations ended analog broadcasting. The newscasts are being simulcast on Chicago low power TV station WWME channel 23, and low power TV stations may conitnue to telecast in analog for awhile longer. (Chicago Tribune)

A study links TV time and language development in young children. (Chicago Tribune)

With his Sarah Palin jokes, David Letterman went too far - in involving her children. (Washington Post)

The New York Times Co. is seeking a buyer for the Boston Globe which it purchased in 1993 for $1.1 billion. (Washington Post) (Associated Press)

Musical artists are claiming to the FCC that some radio stations retaliated against their support of the performance royalty fee by not playing their songs. (Washington Post)

The U.S. government's new technology czar says that new mobile phone applications could spur private investment in high-speed Internet connections, but Washington would also play a leadership role. (Reuters)

AOL is buying 2 community-based Web sites. (Associated Press)

Palm's Pre cellular telephpone has many options but the iPhone still has simplicity. (Boston Globe)

Microsoft's security chief and a veteran of Clinton's and Bush's national security teams are leading candidates for cybersecurity czar, a job that needs White House access and clout to protect networks that underpin the U.S. economy. (Reuters)

In Venezuela, Hugo Chavez is putting pressure on the defiant TV network that opposes his administration. (Washington Post)

The Internet has a new use in Iranian politics: the election campaign. (Associated Press)

A New Jersey blogger has been charged with posting threats against 2 Connecticut legislators. (Associated Press)

Might shock radio jock Howard Stern leave satellite radio and return to terrestrial radio? (San Francisco Chronicle)

Rupert Murdoch is selling the Weekly Standard political magazine to Colorado-based billionaire Philip Anschutz. (U.S. News & World Report)

Analog TV broadcasting ends Friday. Latest figures show 5.1% of blacks, 4.3% of Hispanics and 4.6% of those under 35 years of age are unprepared for the transition to all digital telecvasting. (TV Newsday)

Quarter million Los Angeles area viewers not ready for DTV switchover Friday. (Los Angeles Times)

Some are still not ready for the DTV switch. (Wall Street Journal)

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke discuss the transition to all digital television Friday. (Washington Post)

Friday is the final curtain for analog TV broadcasting, with the transition to all digital telecasting. (Associated Press)

Friday is your antenna's big day, with the transition to all digital TV broadcasting. (Washington Post)

There will be no more analog TV broadcasting as of Friday. (Hartford Courant)

Analog TV fades to blue Friday. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

The long heralded switch to all digital TV is here. (New York Times)

Things to remember with the DTV switchover. (Washington Post)

The CW network stands to gain from the DTV switch. In New York the CW affiliate is WPIX channel 11. (Variety)

WNYW channel 5 New York and KPIX channel 5 San Francisco may lose more than 2% of their coverage with the DTV switch Friday. (Media Daily News)

The FCC continues to operate its DTV information Web site for the public. (FCC)

Losing yourself in a 50-inch HDTV set. (New York Times)

Verizon out a cellphone customer through the wringer, claiming he owed $10,000 for a single month, when he did not. (Los Angeles Times)

The Silicon Valley is a beauty contest for startup tech firms. (San Jose Mercury News)

Online businesses are opposing the 10 worst proposed Internet laws, and they have a Web site, Awful.com. (San Jose Mercury News)

Microsoft's new search engine Bing - aimed at competing with Google - is off to a good start. (New York Times

Revenue at Craigslist is said to top $100 million. (New York Times) (San Francisco Chronicle)

Not everyone is excited about Facebook vanity URLs. (New York Times)

Starting Saturday, Facebook's millions of users will be able to claim a name to use as part of their profile page's Web address ? as in http://facebook.com/janedoe. (Associated Press)

An ex Apple executive who led Apple's iPod division has been named head of Palm. (New York Times)

Sarah Palin has attacked David Letterman over a "sexually perverted" joke. (New York Daily News)

The program director of New York City AM station WABC 770 defends the lack of local programming on the station. (New York Daily News)

Is singer Bono of U2 being denied radio airplay because of his support for the so-called performance tax on radio stations? (Associated Press)

In Venezuela, Hugo Chavez is putting pressure on a defiant TV network that opposes his administration. (Washington Post)

A Somali broadcaster has been shot and killed. (Associated Press)

Al Gore may go to North Korea to help 2 journalists from his Current TV channel, who are being held for 12 year prison terms. (Fox News)

China is revamping its staid TV newscast. (Associated Press)

China is facing criticism over its new censorship software. href=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/world/asia/11censor.html?ref=technology> (New York Times) (Associated Press)

A French court has defanged a plan to crack down on Internet piracy. (New York Times)

The iPhone is a subscription. (New York Times)

The U.S. Justice Department is pressing an antitrust inquiry into the Google book settlement. (New York Times)

Google is unphased by 3 U.S. government inquiries. (Associated Press)

WNYW channel 5 New York is streaming its morning show on Livestream. (TV Newsday)

NBC News has launched a Web site aimed at blacks. (The Grio.com)

A search engine Web site geared toward blacks is being shut down. (Associated Press)

Stephen Colbert took his show on the road - all the way to Iraq. (New York Times)

NBC's 2-part documentary on Barack Obama was a ratings winner. (Associated Press)

Radio station group owner is ramping up its strategy to stream radio to mobile phones and computers. (Associated Press)

U.S. ad spending plumeted $3.8 billion in the first quarter. (Media Daily News)

Broadcasters are competing to put TV on cellular telephones. (Los Angeles Times)

TV commercials that cannot be zapped - they are embedded in the show content. (New York Times)

Verizon and Bank Of America pulled their ads from Sacramento FM station KRXQ 98.5 after a segment of anti-transgendered remarks. (Associated Press)

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has established a diversity council in the wake of a controversial New York Post cartoon about Barack Obama. (Associated Press)

Fred Rogers Scholarships have been presented to 3 students. (Associated Press)

A new study shows Twitter is a broadcast medium. (PC World)

The danger has not passed. The Boston Globe could still be closed by the New York Times Company. (Boston Phoenix)

"If you cut your wrists long enough and deep enough, you will eventually commit suicide." This is how former Baltimore Sun publisher Michael Waller describes what is going on at many newspapers as they cut back and keep cutting back. (Daily Record)

Looking for information about Microsoft's new search service Bing? It will be "baked" into TV shows and Internet fare. (New York Times)

Digg will charge less for ads its users like. (New York Times)

Venezuelan prosecutors have brought usury charges against the head of a TV station that is anti-Hugo Chavez. (Associated Press)

Two American journalists from Al Gore's Current TV could receive up to 10 years imprisonment, as they go on trial in North Korea on espionage charges. (Associated Press)

As the new host of NBC's Tonight show, Conan O'Brien is targeting his humor at a line between his own on his Late Night show and the more traditional of Jay Leno. (New York Times)

The first Tonight show hosted by Conan O'Brien was a good start for Conan. (Buffalo News) (Los Angeles Times)

Air America is coming back to the Washington, D.C. AM radio dial - at 1050. (Washington Business Journal)

Did NBC use Barack Obama to promote other NBC shows? (Newsday)

Clear Channel Communications' big lenders are threatening a refinancing plan. (Financial Times)

Hulu may begin charging for content. (PC World)

A new Web site, TOS Back.org, tracks changes at Internet sites such as Google and Yahoo. (Associated Press)

TV ads from the year 1980 are more like ads of the 60s and 70s than 2009 ads. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Intel, an infrequent of other companies, has just snapped up Wind River. (Associated Press)

The White House used the Web during Barack Obama's address to the Muslim World in Cairo, Egypt. (Associated Press)

The Federal Trade Commission has shut down a rogue Internet provider. (Associated Press)

Simplify your life with free Web services. (PC World)

A New York University student has launched a site, RedGage.com, that pays people for posting their photographs and other offerings. (San Francisco Chronicle)

As Web communications such as Twitter messages shrink, those posting do not want to waste space with lengthy URL links. (Associated Press)

In your Twitter profile, leave out the punctuation. (PC World)

Online job postings increased by 250,000 in May 2009, the largest increase since August 2006. (Associated Press)

Palm's big bet - its new smart cellular telephone. (San Jose Mercury News) With the new phone Palm is seeking a "second act." (San Jose Mercury News)

Some 10,000 songbirds have died smashing into broadcast and communications towers. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a_CYd6qzxZSE > (Bloomberg News)

An Internet radio host in New Jersey is charged with inciting violence in Connecticut and making threats against 2 Connecticut state legislators. http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-turner-arrest.artjun04,0,99236.story > (Hartford Courant)

A new study shows Utah and Mississippi as states with the highest percentages of people looking at Internet pornography. (New Scientist)

Information about U.S. nuclear power plants was inadvertantly and erroneously posted on the Internet. (Associated Press) (Washington Post)

China's government ratcheted up its censorship of the Internet by blocking Twitter, Yahoo's Flickr and Microsoft Hotmail, two days before the 20th anniversary of the military's attack on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Small businesses are taking tentative steps toward online networking. (New York Times

In your Twitter profile, leave out the punctuation. (PC World)

An unwritten code exists among tech firms in the Silicon Valley. (New York Times) But the U.S. government is investigating. (Washington Post)

Microsoft and Sony are unveiling plans similar to Nintento's Wii. (Washington Post)

How startup tech companies and venture capital companies are dealing with the sharp economic downturn. (San Jose Mercury News)

Even large tech firms in the Silicon Valley are being affected by the economy. (San Jose Mercury News)

How those laid off by Silicon Valley tech companies are coping. (San Jose Mercury News)

A new opera Web site is offering more options. (Associated Press)

Craigslist has removed certain erotic ads, but will they return? (Boston Globe)

Sexual assault in Arizona posted live on Web; alleged assailnt is charged by police. (Associated Press)

In Mexico, Televisa and the social networking hi5 are joining to expand their reach. (Associated Press)

Two British citizens who came to the U.S, after being accused of running a Web site with anti-Jewish hate speech, are being returned to the U.K., a year afterr languishing in a California jail. (Associated Press)

Microsoft says the search services on the Internet are "sick" and the cure is Microsoft's new Bing. (Associated Press)

With Bing, Microsoft is hoping to shift the spotlight away from Google. (Seattle Times)

YouTube is moving closer to TV. (New York Times)

A patent court judgement on TiVo has been stayed. (New York Times)

In very tough economic times, Buffalo PBS affiliate WNED-TV channel 17 is asking for its fair share from viewers. (Buffalo News)

Supporters of the two television reporters from Al Gore's Current TV channel who are being held by North Korea, gathered on the steps of San Francisco City Hall to call for their release. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Ratings for Conan O'Brien as host of the Tonight show on NBC are off to a strong start. (New York Times)

Radio & Records - trade industry publicatoion of record for radio for 36 years, is ceasing at the end of this week. (Inside Music Media)

Classic rock, declared dead on WNEW 102.7 New York in the 1990s, is thriving on WAXQ 104.3 New York today. (New York Daily News)

Air America Radio, absent from the Washington, D.C. radio dial since last year, is returning on 1050 AM. (DCRTV)

Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich still have enormous impact on media. (Washington Post)

Talk radio host Jay Severin returned to the airwaves at Boston all talk FM station WTKK 96.9, with an opening statement apologizing for his anti-Mexican immigrant comments. (Boston Globe) A Boston Globe columnist is proposing a "Jay Watch" group to monitor his show and report incidents of outrageous and unacceptable comments.

Could General Motors' woes affect Sirius XM satellite radio? (The Street.com)

Are some gloing too far in trying to link Bill O'Reilly to the shooting death of abortion doctor George Tiller, because of O'Reilly's on-air colmments criticizing him over the years? (Washington Post)

The Pentagon is planning a new arm to wage war in cyberspace. (New York Times)

Microsoft's new search service to compete with Google is called Bing, which Microsoft hopes will become a word in everyday conversation like TiVo or Google. (New York Times)

Siri, a San Jose company, has announced that it would offer an "intelligent agent" for Apple's iPhone that would, the company said, be able to find movie theaters, book restaurant reservations and airline flights, buy from online retail sites and even answer trivia questions like "How many calories are in a banana," all by understanding spoken commands. (San Jose Mercury News)

The iPhone can be turned into a canvas. A few apps let anyone use an existing photo as the basis for an artistic illustration. (New York Times)

Google Wave is a new application running in a Web browser that creates a shared online desktop where two or more users can interact easily. They can exchange messages as they would do in e-mail or instant messaging conversation. They can share and edit rich documents that include formatted text, images and graphics. They can also drag and drop simple applications called widgets into a Wave to, for example, play a game together. And they can save and publish any Wave resulting from their collaboration to the Web. (New York Times)

AOL and Time Warner are parting ways, ending their merger than took place in 2001. (New York Times) (Associated Press) (Los Angeles Times)

Lions Gate has sold a 49% stake in its TV Guide cable channel and Web site. (Los Angeles Times)


Blood is boiling over Gawker's vampire Web site. (Associated Press)


Vista has won the bidding war for SumTotal. (San Jose Mercury News)


A new report says 83% of the Internet population (ages 13 to 54) participates in social media, with 47% on a weekly basis. However, less than 5% of social media users regularly turn to these sites for guidance on purchase decisions in any of nine product/service categories. In addition, only 16% of social media users say they are more likely to buy from companies that advertise on social sites. (Media Post)

There is a new Web site to amplify the debate on the Google book deal. (Associated Press)

The legal posturing between Craigslist and the South Carolina prosecutor's office is over. There will be no legal fight. (Associated Press)


DTV transition efforts step up as the clock ticks down to June 12, the day of the end of analog broadcasting in the U.S. Philadelphia PBS affiliate WHYY-TV channel 12 has opened a special walk-in center for viewers to learn about DTV. (TV Newsday)

A total of 2.7% of U.S. households remain unprepared for the transition to all digital telecasting on June 12. (TV Newsday) (TV Week)

More households are cutting the cord on cable TV. (Wall Street Journal)

Newspaper editors are meeting to examine options for their Internet sites, with the simultaneous sharp decline in their print circulations. (Associated Press)

Online news fees: financial salvation or suicide for the newspapers? (Associated Press)

Two key unions at the Boston Globe have agreed to cuts, to help save the newspaper from shutdown. (Media Daily News)

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg referred to a New York Observer reporter as "a disgrace" for questioning the mayor's rationale for running for a third term. (New York Daily News)

Speaking at the University Of Buffalo 3 years ago, Conan O'Brien said that in TV, "nobody really knows" what will succeed. (Buffalo News)

For the first time in years, WCBS-AM 880 beat WINS-AM 1010 in the New York metro Arbitron ratings. Both all news stations are now owned by CBS. (New York Daily News)

A new 3 hour morning all news program from the Washington Times is scheduled to debut June 15. (Washington Times)

Political consultant and columnist Dick Morris says Barack Obama's FCC is conducting a war against talk radio with its probe of Arbitron's Personal People Meter in gathering ratings information.

The National Public Radio freelance reporter held for 4 months in Iran says she falsely pleaded guilty to spying, under force. (Associated Press)

Sources say NBC is considering creating a 5 p.m. weekday lifestyle show for the network, which would eliminate local newscasts at that hour including Live At Five at New York's WNBC channel 4. (New York Observer)

The Goode Family Wednesday nights on ABC makes fun of the world's do-gooders. (Miami Herald)

All sports Miami AM station WQAM 560 suspends a talk host after an expletive slipped onto the air. (Miami Herald)

The BBC is launching a U.S. children's channel. (Variety)

Microsoft is launching a new Zune music player, with some good news for radio -- as the player will include a built-in HD Radio receiver. Available in the U.S. this fall, Zune HD is the first portable media player that combines a built-in HD Radio receiver, high-definition (HD) video output capabilities, an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) touch screen, Wi-Fi and an Internet browser. Zune will extend its video service to Xbox Live internationally this fall. This marks an interesting development in the ZUNE strategy and brings the Zune brand to more than 17 million international Xbox Live subscribers. (All Access)

Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor - Barack Obama's nominee to be a U.S. Supreme Court justice - will be the first tech-savvy Justice. Unlike retiring Justice David Souter, who has never even owned a computer, Sotomayor has ruled on a number of cyberlaw decisions - and has experience as an intellectual property lawyer. (All Access)

The Web needs TV but TV does not need the Web. (TV Newsday)

The DTV "soft test" in Chicago earlier this week indicates many are still unprepared for all-digital telecasting and the end of analog TV broadcasting June 12. (Chicago Tribune)

The FCC is holding an open meeting this coming Wednesday (June 3) focusing upon the transition to all digital telecasting and end of analog TV broadcasting June 12, at the FCC on 12th Street in Washington, D.C. (FCC)

Robert Schuller Jr. - son of the charismatic host of TV's Hour Of Power for decades - is starting his own show - after being ejected as host of his father's show several months ago. (Associated Press)

New York City is to renew its popular film tax incentive. (Associated Press)

Sixteen months after the decision, the FCC has released its order extending the continuation of the waver for Rupert Murdoch, allowing him to own WNYW channel 5, WWOR channel 9 and the New York Post daily newspaper in the New York market. (Multichannel News)

A federal appeals court has ruled that cable TV companies may not use exclusive contracts with premium channels tl block competiong providers from condominiums and apartment buildings. (Bloomberg News)

Ratings for the TLC reality series "Jon & Kate Plus 8," which tracks the day-to-day life of a Pennsylvania couple with eight children, reached record levels this year as nearly 10 million viewers tuned in for the season premiere, which focused on the couple's troubled marriage. (New York Times)

Advertising growth is spreading on all mobile fronts. (Media Post)

Two New York state legislators are proposing to extend the state's shield law to professional journalists who blog. (Media Daily News)

Smartphones comprise only 12% of device sales yet account for 35% of mobile ad impressions. (Media Daily News)

Women over 55 are fleeing Facebook. (Media Daily News)

MySpace's new CEO is promising innovation on the social networking site owned by Rupert Murdoch. (Associated Press)

Neal Gabler, a regular on Reel 13 Saturday nights on Thirteen/WNET and an author and journalists, discusses hate-mongering in the media today and over the years. (Boston Globe)

Bluetooth wireless headsets have improved quite a bit in recent years. (Associated Press)

Some - including Ashton Kutcher - oppose marrying Twitter and TV. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Twitter which asks what everybody is doing right now - wants to do a TV show. (Associated Press)

Twitter is targeted by a worm-like phishing attack. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Twitter's cofounders say Twitter will eventually charge fees. (Associated Press)

Twitter's cofounders say they are in for the long haul. (New York Times)

Some celebrities think Twitter is their own public rrlations representative. (Saint Petersburg, Florida Times)

NBC set a low water mark of historic proportions in primetime ratings last week. (Associated Press)

The ratings for CNN's Anderson Cooper are down. (New York Post)

On newscasts, news reporters are not supposed to give their views on which side they support. But does this rule apply to sports? That question is being asked about a sports anchor on Cleveland, Ohio ABC affiliate WEWS channel 5. (Maynard Institute)

Barack Obama wants a review of the federal gpoverment's classified information systems and procedures. (Associated Press)

Iran has lifted the block it had imposed on Facebook. (Associated Press)

The controversy swirling around the erotica ads on Craigslist being focus on society's views about prostitution. (San Jose Mercury News)

A Canadian French language broadcast is being criticized for a joke about an assassination of Barack Obama. (Associated Press)

To attend University Of Missouri journalism classes, students must have an Apple laptop and an iPhone. (Missourian)

Among the developed nations, the United States is in the middle of the pack as far as access to broadband. (New York Times)

A new law in France to stop Internet piracy is drawing skepticism. (Associated Press)

Tweeting one's way to a job. (New York Times)

Smartphones can be transformed into mobile entertainment centers. (Washington Post)

NebuAd is closing its doors after Internet privacy woes. (Associated Press)

Craigs List is suing the South Carolina attorney general. (Associated Press) (Los Angeles Times)

Some parents are turning to cellular telephones as high tech rattles. (Associated Press)

TV stations need a clear Internet vision. (TV Newsday)

TV stations in the San Francisco - San Jose area are being hit hard by the economy. (San Jose Mercury News)

Will Conan O'Brien's brand of humor fly on the Ton ikght show? (New York Times)

The CW network is adding shows to text about. In New York the CW affiliate is WPIX channel 11. (New York Times)

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann responds to Rush Limbaugh's challenge to never mention Limbaugh's name for 30 days. (Associated Press)

Radio talk show host Michael Savage has described Rush Limbaugh as a "fraud". ( (San Francisco Chronicle)

Democrats are seeking a bailout for minority radio. (The Hill)

The Detroit newspapers are keeping more readers than expected. (Associated Press)

The CEO of the McClatchy newspapers sees good times ahead for newspapers. (Associated Press)

In Arizona, the Tucson Citizen will not resume publication, after a federal judge declined to order its owner - Gannett - to do so. (Associated Press)

The ongoing cuts at newspapers make it difficult for wrongly accused individuals to receive coverage for exoneration. (New York Times)

The White House is producing its own news reports, shutting out the press pool. (TV Newswer)