New face to the National Guard NCSA campaign

Recently, Staff Sergeant Carolina Compton was assigned to the position of Marketing NCO (non-commissioned officer) for the New Hampshire Army National Guard, replacing Sergeant First Class Mathew Lovgren.  Among other duties, the Marketing NCO is our main contact in the state for our NH... Read More.

FCC to host webinars on spectrum auction

The NHAB urges you to give serious consideration to participating in important FCC-sponsored webinars to be conducted Wednesday through Friday of this week on the subject of the Broadcast Television Incentive Auction.  The following information was provided by the Commission.

STELA reauthorization moving forward in House

One of the top issues in front of television broadcasters in early 2014 is, essentially, a satellite television issue.  STELA (Satellite Television Expansion and Localism Act) is a bill that allows for satellite television companies to provide distant broadcast signals, which in the late... Read More.

Broadcasters face JSA trouble at FCC

While radio and television broadcasters fend off a performance royalty, drastic changes to retransmission consent negotiations and advertising tax deduction changes in the halls of Congress, the Federal Communications Commission is proving to be equally challenging. The voluntary television spectrum auctions looms in 2015 but... Read More.

Advertising tax deductibility challenge looms in 2014

A new issue has been added to the now standard mix of issues facing New Hampshire’s broadcasters.  The “usual suspects” are still present; retransmission consent, the television spectrum auction  and reallocation (which has been delayed until 2015) and radio’s performance tax. Congressman Dave Camp (R-Mich.)... Read More.