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Dennis Haarsager

Hillsboro, Virginia

Executive Director & President, Public Television Major Market Group; retired exec at NPR & R-TV stations.

Interests: Genealogy (see http://www.stadsbygd.org and http://stadsbygd.relatedfamilies.com), photography (currently shooting with Canon EOS 5D Mark II & Leica D-Lux 4 & Sony NEX-5), ham radio (N7DH since 1975 and WAØKKR 1965-1975).

Recent Activity

The The Long Reach of TV Spectrum | #pubmedia

Communications attorney, Michael D. Berg, has a very good article accessible to non-lawyers and non-engineers on the implications for television stations of spectrum repacking on TVNewsCheck. For station CEOs, COOs and board members, this is a good use of your... Continue reading

Posted Apr 5, 2013 at Technology360

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New America Foundation paper: #PubMedia Policy, Spectrum Policy and Rethinking Public Interest Obligations

The New America Foundation has released a paper tying spectrum policy with sustaining public media. No, it’s not yet another proposal to create an endowment for public media from spectrum auction proceeds. Here is the executive summary: Executive Summary In... Continue reading

Posted Jun 24, 2012 at Technology360

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Using crowd funding for #pubmedia projects

It was interesting to see that Pebble blew past its $100,000 goal for crowd funding development of its innovative watches from Kickstarter, raising over $10 million. In checking out Kickstarter and a competitor called Indiegogo, it struck me that these... Continue reading

Posted May 24, 2012 at Technology360

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FCC TV incentive spectrum auctions (updated) – What does it mean for broadcasters? #pubmedia

Attorney David Oxenford of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP has a good overview of what procedures broadcasters might expect from the FCC in the matter of repacking and auctioning of television broadcast spectrum. Link: Broadcast Law Blog. Trackback (posted 20 Feb.... Continue reading

Posted Feb 21, 2012 at Technology360

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Be More “PBS”–Be More Local, a strategic framework for #pubmedia

The following essay of mine was published in the public media newspaper, Current, on Jan. 30, 2012. It’s not yet online so I’m reproducing it here with a small update to call out the role of education. I currently do... Continue reading

Posted Feb 3, 2012 at Technology360

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TV spectrum auctions likely to fail if GOP bill accepted

... says Blair Levin, former FCC staffer who's described as the chief architect of the Commission's 2010 National Broadband Plan. The GOP version of this legislation: ... contains provisions designed to protect broadcasters who hang on to their spectrum. And... Continue reading

Posted Jan 5, 2012 at Technology360

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#Opera browser provides huge improvement on high-latency #WildBlue ISP!

Loudoun Co., where I live in northern Virginia, has or had the highest median income of any of the 3,000+ U.S. counties. But that doesn’t give my wife and I access to terrestrial broadband, and neither of the WISPs that... Continue reading

Posted Jan 4, 2012 at Technology360

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What Fair Use Is–And How It works #pubmedia

The title says it all about this helpful overview of DCMA fair use provisions by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan in MediaPost’s Online Video Insider blog. Thanks to Patricia Torres-Burd of Houston PBS for the tip. Link: MediaPost. Update 2 January 2012: And,... Continue reading

Posted Jan 1, 2012 at Technology360

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The Next Decade of Bandwidth, Parts I-V

John Shepler does a five-part look forward on the competition for bandwidth ahead. I’m not necessarily endorsing everything he says and some of my fellow television broadcasters may want to take their amlodipine before reading, but it’s worth your time... Continue reading

Posted Dec 30, 2011 at Technology360

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Eric Schmidt’s MacTaggart lecture: The internet is fundamental to the future of TV | #pubmedia

The prestigious James MacTaggart lecture is a fixture at the annual MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival. I’ve never attended one, but they’re always interesting and I look forward to catching up when they’re posted. This year’s lecture was given by... Continue reading

Posted Sep 3, 2011 at Technology360

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Spectrum auctions not in debt ceiling agreement–but look for them to return

Thirty-six years ago, our attention was focused on a toothy great white shark which was terrorizing Amity Island, thanks to the artistry of Steven Spielberg and Peter Benchley. This summer, the dysfunctional family of 535 elected representatives to Congress are... Continue reading

Posted Aug 2, 2011 at Technology360

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Jon McTaggart speech to #Pubmedia Marketing and Development Conference

Jon McTaggart, who has succeeded Bill Kling as CEO of the American Public Radio Group (American Public Media, Minnesota Public Radio, KPCC, et al.), gave a terrific speech this morning at the Public Media Marketing and Development Conference – a... Continue reading

Posted Jul 15, 2011 at Technology360

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Building web usage for #pubmedia – challenge for TV and music radio

A couple of weeks ago, I had a good conversation with an old friend and colleague who is an executive at a combined radio and television operation about the dilemma such stations have in knowing which of the new set... Continue reading

Posted Jul 11, 2011 at Technology360

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#Pubmedia web ranks vs. inbound links

Updated 12 July 2011: See also Building web usage for pubmedia - challenge for TV and music radio. --------- Available web statistics tend to overstate the broadcast equivalent of cume and understate the broadcast equivalent of average usage (and therefore... Continue reading

Posted Jul 7, 2011 at Technology360

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#Pubmedia orgs launch web apps for Chrome browser

Kudos to @KQED, @PBS and @NPR for pioneering implementations of web apps for the Google Chrome browser. First, congratulations to @KQED, and particularly to one of our top innovators, @TimOlsonSF and his team, on the launch of the very cool... Continue reading

Posted Jul 6, 2011 at Technology360

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Study: Online video viewing shifting to primetime | #pubmedia

Erick Schonfeld reports on a new Yahoo study that shows the disappearance of a gap in online viewing caused by live TV that was present in 2009. He writes: ... Only two years ago, prime time showed the biggest dip... Continue reading

Posted Jun 30, 2011 at Technology360

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Stadsbygd genealogy database has moved

My online genealogy database is centered on the traditional Stadsbygd parish (prestegjeld), which includes persons and expatriates from Stadsbygd, Rissa, Hasselvika, Ingdalen and Lensvik, as well as neighboring parishes such as Leksvik, Stjørna and Ørland -- plus many from there... Continue reading

Posted Jun 19, 2011 at Stadsbygd og staværinger

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Norwegian public TV does 134-hour live broadcast from Hurtigruten

The broadcast is available on the web at http://www.nrk.no/hurtigruten/ with text available in both Norwegian and English. And it's also available on regular television in Norway. As this is written, it is in the middle of the night in Norway... Continue reading

Posted Jun 19, 2011 at Stadsbygd og staværinger

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Over-the-air TV households: the real numbers from TVB | #pubmedia

On four different occasions since early 2004, I’ve used information from the Television Bureau of Advertising web site (click “Cable & ADS” on the right navigation) to determine the number of households that use over-the-air reception (OTA) exclusively (that is,... Continue reading

Posted Jun 14, 2011 at Technology360

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FCC has released its new state of the media report | #pubmedia

The FCC's new state of the media report called, Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age, is out today and can be accessed here: http://www.fcc.gov/info-needs-communities The report's principal author is Steven Waldman, former editor-in-chief of... Continue reading

Posted Jun 9, 2011 at Technology360

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Radio station values beginning to eclipse TV’s in #pubmedia; TV spectrum implications

When I was managing public radio and television stations in the Pacific Northwest, I used as a decision-making tool what might be the effect on the imaginary equity value of our organization of this or that significant decision. It tended... Continue reading

Posted Jun 8, 2011 at Technology360

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Good news for Orlando PBS viewers | #pubmedia

Elizabeth Jensen reports: … on Thursday, the University of Central Florida in Orlando said it reached a partnership deal with WBCC, at Brevard Community College in nearby Cocoa. U.C.F. will invest up to $1 million in the college station, which... Continue reading

Posted May 31, 2011 at Technology360

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Challenges and Opportunities for In-Car Streaming Radio | #pubmedia

Andrew Phelps, writing for Nieman Journalism Lab, writes that “Internet radio might keep FM company, not kill it”: A study released yesterday by research firm knowDigital — based on interviews with about 30 heavy streamers in the Raleigh-Durham area who... Continue reading

Posted Apr 27, 2011 at Technology360

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The note to staff any media CEO would like to write

I’ve never quoted an entire blog post without permission before, but in this case, I’m asking forgiveness rather than permission because you really should read this without another click. John Paton is CEO of the Journal Register Company and by... Continue reading

Posted Apr 21, 2011 at Technology360

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Misunderstanding public broadcasting in the U.S. | #pubmedia

One of the difficulties that public media face as they struggle to maintain tax-based and viewer/listener-sensitive income is that the recommendations of so many people betray a misunderstanding of the very structure that exists in the U.S. This even includes... Continue reading

Posted Apr 20, 2011 at Technology360

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