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Cable Television Program as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Host this week on the communicators, our guest is Shirley Bloomfield from ntca, the Rural Broadband association. She is the ceo of it. Pauluest reporter is kirby. Shirley bloomfield, who do you represent at ntca . Shirley i represent around 850 communitybased Rural Broadband providers. They are the companies that traditionally were the local phone companies that had to evolve and evolve quickly. Br...

They have been serving about 35 of our landmass across the country. Could you name some of those companies to help us get familiar . Absolutely. We could go all the way to western south dakota, not rushmore. We could go to citizens on the mississippi river, up to wisconsin where i have telephone cooperatives. And even here in my state of virginia. We have scott county in the very tip of the state, serving the tristate area. But i have 850 of them. When you talk about landmass, you are talking ab...

Listen with their free cspan radio app. Cspan, your unfiltered view of politics. Next, a visit to the Smithsonians National portrait gallery. A historian gives American History tba guided tour of an exhibit marking the centennial of the 19th amendment. Using images of early suffrage leaders, she shows how the movement intersected with the abolitionist and temperance movements. This is the first of a twopart series. Kate welcome to the National Portrait gallery at the smithsonian institution. Im ...

Host and this week on the communicators, our guest is Shirley Bloomfield of ntca, the Rural Broadband association. Shes the ceo there. Our guest reporter from Telecommunications Reports is paul kirby. Huly bloomfield Shirley Bloomfield, who do you represent . Guest about 850 communitybased broadband providers across the country, theyre in 46 states, so theyre the companies that traditionally were the local phone companies that had to evolve and evolved very quickly to become a broadband provider...

Neutrality condition. On that happy note, let me merry christmas, happy hon abbinga. He National Association of broadcasters is neutral on net neutrality, we have members who it. For and members against it. Members. Represent the we debated it and took a pass on taking a position on that. And with all the other controversies swirl of course, we are glad that the heat is not its a difficult issue. I remember wrestling with it issue, there are credible arguments on both sides. Television stations ...

We debated it. Took a path on taking a position on that with all the other controversy swirling were glad the heat was not on us. It is a difficult issue. I remember wrestling with that issue in the senate. There are credible arguments on both sides. Cspan television stations that is almost a quaint term anymore to call something a television station when local channels are online and theyre just as much online as they are on tv anymore. They are. Most of my television members, they do have inte...

So the technology was used to make a cigarette that was easier to inhale and contain substances that were more dangerous. Whether they contain more substances or more dangerous or they allowed a smoker to inhale them more deeply than they previously were inclined to do because of the cigarettes were harsher. Again what were viewing, what were seeing in terms of the numbers is very large increases in the risk of lung cancer. Larger in women than in men. But very large at least the way cigarettes ...

Ok. So well start over you. This is neils last time for oing, this guys. When we announced todays agenda a month ago, i recall somebody on twitter saying that the may Commission Meeting was going to be epic. Understatement. Today, the commission took big steps forward on two of the most significant issues before the agency prerktsing and promoting the open internet and making available spectrum to assure a vibrant and competitive wireless marketplace. On the open internet, obviously, ve seen an ...

Economic assistance and impose sanctions on russia. Also on the agenda in the senate this week, a bill to extend Unemployment Insurance and a measure to repeal the current formula for medicare payments to doctors. The house returns at noon eastern with legislative business at 2 00. Nine suspension bills are on the agenda, one includes a measure to allow individuals to make taxdeductible donations for 2013 through april 15th of year. Votes are not expected in the house until 6 30 p. M. Eastern. Y...