FCC Defends Janet Jackson Smackdown

The FCC Friday said it was reasonable to conclude that Janet Jackson’s “brief” display of nudity during the Super Bowl halftime show in 2004 violated the FCC’s indecency rules.
http://email.BroadcastingCable.com/cgi-bin2/DM/y/etd80LIJ2Z0Olt0C54I0EE

GUARDIAN: 2006-YEAR WORLD WOKE UP TO GLOBAL WARMING

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1975381,00.html

THE YEAR IN INTERNET VIDEOS
http://news.com.com/2009-1025_3-6136802.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news

AIR AMERICA GOES RUMBA IN BOSTON

Martha Older writes:

Clear Channel, which was running Air America on two local radio stations, was bought by Bank Capital. Other cities were also cancelled, and at least one (Madison, WI) has gotten theirs back. Both Boston stations, without any notice — one minute Air America, the next Rumba –were turned into primarily Spanish-language* 24-hour Rumba(!) stations.

Some listeners (those that could be reached) started a list-serve to try to reverse this. The first meeting is planned for Weds. eve. Dec. 27.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Save_progressive_radio_boston.

In Boston, there are already a host of primarily Spanish radio stations. We are aware that this is an important minority, but most of us don’t see a conflict, especially given that there are two stations involved, and they are apparently planning to increase the power of one in six months, and maybe drop the Rumba programming on the other.

LIBERTY BUYS DIRECTV

Multichannel News reports: Liberty Media cut a deal Friday with News Corp. that will see the former acquire the latter’s majority stake in DirecTV Group in exchange for Liberty’s 16.3% stake in News Corp., $550 million in cash and three regional sports networks: FSN, Northwest,