Auctioning off unused airwaves could provide the federal government with as much as $30 billion in budget-balancing revenue while widening the information superhighway that telecommunications companies rely on to satisfy rapidly-growing consumer demand for wireless technology. But television and radio broadcasters, who control much of the airwaves now, are raising objections.
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"TV spoilers are becoming unavoidable; More opportunities than ever for devotees to give away the plot" by Beth Teitell | Globe Staff, November 20, 2012
Americans ages 15 and over spend more time with on-screen characters than they do socializing with friends, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, racking up 2.8 hours a day of TV time in 2011, compared with 45 minutes a day of real-people time....
The problem has been building for years, but the obsession with immediately sharing everything we know on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites means that what happens on TV doesn’t stay on TV.
“The spoiler alert situation is out of control,” TV critic David Bianculli observed....
In 1989, when Jerry Seinfeld recorded the Mets game to watch later in the pilot episode of “Seinfeld,” he had only the ringing phone to fear. “If you know what happened in the Mets game don’t tell me,” he implores the caller. “I taped it.”
I now realize the agenda-pushing aspect of the show. It was to sell us on Jewishness as normal, all-encompassing, prominent, it was a calculated effort to normalize and implant in brains.
Today’s spoilers don’t just come through the phone — or by neighbor, as they did for Seinfeld, when Kramer spilled the beans. They waft in through the air itself, via Twitter or Facebook, Gmail or text. To be behind in a popular series even by 10 minutes is to live in a booby-trapped world....
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