As we are all waiting fro the two major items of the day to unfold. I did find one interesting item about the forthcoming Supreme Court decision on Obamacare.
Niall Stanag, a reporter for The Hill, writes that the Supreme Court decision is about the constitutionality of Obamacare, but more importantly is about Obama's leadership.
An interesting read can be found here.
The news cycle will be fully engaged in the two major stories of the month, but there are some other interesting news items.
Last fall the NLRB tried to stop Boeing from utilizing its multi-million dollar plant in South Carolina. South Carolina is a right-to-eok state and Boeing did not plan to hire union only workers. Eventually, the NLRB was forced to back down and the Boeing plant is working well to create Boeing's latest jetliner the 787.
Boeing may soon have some unwanted and additional competition in the SOuth. A
Airbus Industries has announced it will build a plant to produce the Airbus 320 in Alabama. Th Airbus 320 is the aircraft of choice for Delta and US Airways. Both airlines are currently headquartered in the south and a plant in Alabama will make delivery of new jets and part for maintenance readily available.
Airbus currently has a plant in Mobile that designs and installs interior items for Airbus' larger planes. It is not currently known if Airbus will expand its current facility or build a entirely new plant for the Airbus 320's. According to anonymous state sources, and announcement could come as soon as Monday.
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One of the disturbing trends in local broadcast news is the elimination or consolidation of news organizations with a market. Small and large operations have reorganized for economic and competitive issues.
The latest news staff to be eliminated is the news operation at KSAX in Alexandria, MN. This move will layoff 17 staffers at the small station in Central Minnesota.
KSAX is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting which owns stations with very large news organizations in the Minneapolis market.
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In the Charlotte NC market, WBTV has been producing a 10pm newscast on independent stations for more than a decade. In this case, however, it was not the closing of a newsroom that led the Raycom owned CBS affiliate to make the move. It was merely competition.
The impetus for the expansion by WBTV to an independent was the beginning of news on the local Fox affiliate. WBTV uses its powerful weeknight news team to staff the 10pm newscast currently on WMYT, the MyTv station in the Charlotte market.
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A new study by Beta Research is showing that more viewers are interested in watching their favorite tv shows ans networks on mobile or tablet devices.
The study showed that 50% of the 18 to 34 age group are interested in viewing tv on mobile devices. This is up from 39% a year ago.
This could be bad news for the major networks as networks receiving the highest marks were National Geographic Channel, ID Investigation Discovery, Nat Geo Wild,
Cooking Channel and Science.
Other networks that were considered emerging in the survey included Fox Movie Channel, CI, Crime & Investigation Network, Weatherscan, Military
History and BBC World News
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We now return you to today's two ring circus.
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