J.M. Rowe, N5XFW, of Hot Springs, has been appointed as the new ARRL Arkansas Section Manager with a term to begin on December 22, 2008. Rowe is taking over the Section Manager reins from David Norris, K5UZ, who was elected

The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) team is currently celebrating the silver anniversary -- 25 years -- of Amateur Radio operations from space. According to ARISS International Chairman Frank Bauer, KA3HDO, the crew on the International Space

The major ice storm that hit New England December 11 has pretty much gone away, but with forecasters calling for more winter weather in the next few days, hams are still on the job. During the storm, Amateur Radio operators

Published:December 18, 2008Paper Released:September 2008Authors:Alvin J. Silk and Charles King III Executive Summary: How concentrated is the U.S. advertising and marketing services industry? Over the past several decades, the effects of deregulation, globalization, and technological innovation have reshaped the advertising

PHILADELPHIA - Cable TV operators say they'll voluntarily stop moving analog channels to more expensive digital tiers of service between Dec. 31 and March 1, to avoid confusing customers as the nation switches to digital broadcast transmissions in February.In letters

NEW YORK - Ken Paulson, editor of USA Today and a veteran First Amendment advocate, is leaving the nation's top-selling newspaper in February to take the No. Paulson, 55, was named editor in 2004 in the wake of a fraud

NEW YORK - CBS Corp. and Time Warner Inc. executives have discussed joining forces to bid on rights to televise the Olympics in 2014 and 2016, turning that competition into an even greater clash of media titans.TV empires headed by

USA Today Editor Ken Paulson is planning to leave the paper and become president and COO of the Newseum and Freedom Forum, the paper announced this afternoon.

Imagine a company that sells you a product each day _ while at the same time that company produces an enhanced version of the same product and gives it away, hours earlier, for free. That's the newspaper industry's business model

With U.S. and European regulators and watchdogs worried that Internet companies are compromising users' privacy by keeping data about online behavior for long periods, Yahoo Inc. said Wednesday that it would shorten that time from 13 months to 90 days.In

LOS ANGELES - A dozen film industry workers protested outside a town hall meeting of the Screen Actors Guild on Wednesday night, pleading with actors not to authorize a strike that would bring the entertainment business to a halt.The workers

Some say they're the future of journalism.

Dec. 18--The Kevin Martin era at the Federal Communications Commission has ended quietly even before the Obama administration takes over. The Bush appointee and bane of Comcast Corp. canceled today's meeting of the FCC after top Democrats in the House

Sirius XM Radio Inc. shareholders plan to meet Thursday to vote on measures designed to bolster the cash-strapped company's finances, but those steps might not provide the zip the company once hoped for.Sirius said it had about 3.2 billion shares

Walt Disney Co.'s main film financing partner, Kingdom Films, is suing the Burbank studio, accusing it of breaching a 2005 contract guaranteeing it a share of profits from the recent hit "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" and next year's

LOS ANGELES - News Corp.'s 20th Century Fox Television studio has asked producers of shows such as Fox's "24" and "My Name is Earl," produced for NBC, to trim their budgets this season by 2 percent, a spokesman said Wednesday."We

CINCINNATI - A Christmas pageant actor who fell about 25 feet during the show's opening night performance has died, a spokeswoman at a Cincinnati mega-church said.

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea claimed Thursday that it has arrested a South Korean-hired agent it strongly suggested was tasked with assassinating the country's absolute leader, Kim Jong Il.

JERUSALEM - A U.N. report says nearly half of all Gazans are unemployed and is calling Israel's stringent closure of the Palestinian territory a ''profound human dignity crisis.''

BAGHDAD - A spokesman for Iraq's prime minister says the journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush has asked for a pardon.