Putting aside the Sarnoffs and all the other great names of broadcasting, Paley stood – stands – head and shoulders above everyone else.
Its one of the final bastions of broadcasting i can actually stand, the LAST thing it needs is to be infected by political correctness".
There are some people, he acknowledges, who might worry that broadcasting "The Day the Earth Stood Still" could be inimical to our interests.
C-Span has gotten into the act, broadcasting an annual evening of stand-up comedy from Washington, in which reporters like Walter Shapiro of USA Today and lawmakers like Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut perform their 10 minutes of shtick.
Ed Richards, chief executive of broadcasting regulator Ofcom, is to stand down at the end of the year.
Nothing stands still in the broadcasting industry, but 2010 is shaping up to be a year of more movement than usual.
Among other freedoms offered by orbital broadcasting, you might hear what RTFM really stands for.
This is a new 30-second commercial, called "Stand," which the New York State Democratic Party began broadcasting Tuesday night.
"Their show is stupid, redundant, and most people definitely can't stand them," said Heide Alaia, a broadcasting student at New York University.
Job: founder, Virgin; largest shareholder, Virgin Media Age: 56 Industry: broadcasting, telecommunications Worth: £3.1bn 2006 ranking: 29 Few competitors stand toe-to-toe with Sky and live to tell the tale.
Two years on from the start of the so-called Arab uprising, and with the eyes of the world still on the conflict in Syria, BBC News is broadcasting a week of reports on where the region stands now.
