The Ohio Association of Broadcasters is the only organization dedicated to protecting every Ohio radio and television station's ability to operate its business and serve its community. With approximately 90% of Ohio TV stations and 80% of Ohio radio stations as members, the OAB represents the Ohio broadcast industry in Washington and at the state and local levels.

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OAB News

Updated February 2, 2010

• No-cost training webinars for OAB members. During 2010, the OAB is offering its members a number of webinars on different subjects, including sales, news, and promotion topics. To see the list of webinars, go here.
   
• The OAB, through its Ohio Broadcasters Foundation, annually awards scholarships to college students interested in pursuing a career in broadcasting and one child of a full-time employee of an OAB member station. For more information and applications, go to www.oab.org/scholarships.
   
• New CABLEtrac reports for the Toledo and Youngstown DMAs are now available. Previously released reports other DMAs are also available. To download the reports, or for more information on this free service for OAB members, go here.
   
• Presentations from the 7th Annual Ohio Broadcast Engineering Conference are now available at www.oab.org/2009engineeringconference.
   
• The NAB's recent webinar on the FCC's Disaster Information Reporting Service (“DIRS”) has been archived on their site here. The webinar explains the benefits for broadcasters that participate in DIRS. Broadcasters who wish to register with the FCC for DIRS should go here.
   
• Archived audio files from the OAB's recent audio conference Hiring, Discipline, and Discharge During Tough Economic Times are now available here. Other OAB online training resources are also available; to access all of these online training resources, please go to www.oab.org/onlinetraining.
   
• Ohio broadcasters can now register on the OAB website to receive AMBER Alert, Endangered Missing Child Alert, and Missing Adult Alert information. To learn more about these alerts and to register, please go to www.oab.org/alerts.
   
• The winners of the 2009 OAB Broadcasting Scholarships and the OAB Kids Scholarship have been announced. For more information, go here.
   
• The OAB is pleased to offer A Primer on Webcasting for Terrestrial Radio Stations. This online guide provides a detailed overview of the various licenses radio stations need, and requirements they must satisfy, before stations can begin streaming music on the Internet. To access the primer, go here.