NAB spent $9 million in lobbying in 2007

Ace Purple · Post by **Ace Purple** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:01 am

The National Association of Broadcasters spent nearly $9 million in 2007 to lobby on digital TV, cable and satellite radio matters.

http://www.startribune.com/science/17369074.html

genlock · Post by **genlock** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:09 am

I didn't get a dime of it.
Not even a free beer.

Dave Allen · Post by **Dave Allen** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 10:15 am

I took their free beer and reluctantlly accepted a lap dance from Chris Lawrence.

Big Media · Post by **Big Media** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 10:49 am

I, and damn near everyone else in the business, was given an open invitation to fly into DC to lobby congress for digital must-carry or something (I don't remember). NAB was going to pick up the tab on the airline ticket, hotel room, ground transportation, and even catered lunch. However, no lap dances were offered.

nuggie99 · Post by **nuggie99** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 1:31 pm

daveinthemorning wrote:I took their free beer and reluctantlly accepted a lap dance from Chris Lawrence.

The lovely aroma of Copenhagen and doe scent only adds to the experience, no doubt.

genlock · Post by **genlock** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:35 pm

TOKYO (Reuters) - Robots could fill the jobs of 3.5 million people in graying Japan by 2025, a thinktank says, helping to avert worker shortages as the country's population shrinks.

Japan faces a 16 percent slide in the size of its workforce by 2030 while the number of elderly will mushroom, the government estimates, raising worries about who will do the work in a country unused to, and unwilling to contemplate, large-scale immigration.

The thinktank, the Machine Industry Memorial Foundation, says robots could help fill the gaps, ranging from microsized capsules that detect lesions to high-tech vacuum cleaners.

Rather than each robot replacing one person, the foundation said in a report that robots could make time for people to focus on more important things.