From the Top
Maybe Now We Can Get Real
by Deborah D. McAdams 11.25.2008
There is a pervasive notion in the culture that simply thinking something will make it so. More...
It Could Be Worse
by Deborah D. McAdams 11.24.2008
Pardon me. I am distracted from TV right now, and I don’t mean that ironically. It has been brought to my attention that I am coming into the ownership of several banks.This is the best news I’ve had for a More...
Change, Please
by Deborah D. McAdams 9.27.2008
It’s no picnic being in the land of the lost. That would be the place where dinosaurs roam. Traditional media, for example. People in broadcasting and print have about as much cachet these days as a greatbigasaurus brunching at More...
Free TV Eludes Others, Too...
by Deborah D. McAdams 9.5.2008
McAdams is not the only one with a spanking new TV hooked up to rabbit ears. People across the country are searching for something--anything--to pull in DTV signals, including maritime antennas... More...
Free TV Eludes Me
by Deborah D. McAdams, JULY TVB 8.5.2008
McAdams is caught between the latest in television displays and the earliest in television reception. Thus begins the search for the rabbit ears of tomorrow... More...
Let's Talk Taboo
by Deborah D. McAdams 7.11.2008
McAdams carefully analyzes the logic behind unlicensed devices in this episode of From the Top... More...
To Buy or Not to Buy a TV
by Deborah D. McAdams 6.4.2008
McAdams is in the market for a new television set ... a 3-D one. More...
Everybody Knows What No One Knows
by Deborah D. McAdams 4.11.2008
McAdams rants about not feeling special anymore because everyone knows that no one knows about the digital transition. More...
What TV is Made Of
by Deborah D. McAdams 3.20.2008
Take that old gear out of the mothballs. Television Broadcast Editor-in-Chief Deborah D. McAdams knows of a grade school broadcast training program in New Jersey that needs it. More...
What Offends Me
by Deborah D. McAdams 2.19.2008
An FCC citation for indecency calls into question why images of women are considered actionable while similar images of men are not. More...
Information Underload
by Deborah D. McAdams 1.25.2008
The money follows the eyeballs more than ever before, so if broadcasters are forced to do more revenue-free programming, what comes of it? More...
Deborah McAdams Weighs In
by Deborah D. McAdams 1.16.2008
From one contrarian to another, I believe part of what drives FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is a proclivity for doing what others are not. More...
Full Disclosure
by Deborah D. McAdams 11.29.2007
I am an idealist. I believe inexorably that free speech is imperative to democracy, and I believe free television to be one of the major tenets of free speech.
I am not a starry-eyed idealist. I am familiar with the dreck that More...
Jumping On The Bandwagon
by Peter Caranicas 7.5.2007
Turn to pages 10 and 11 of the print version of the June issue of Television Broadcast and you’ll find our newest section, a map of the U.S. pinpointing markets where stations have begun broadcasting local news in HD.
By our More...