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OAB News

Updated November 14, 2008

• Presentations from the 6th Annual Ohio Broadcast Engineering Conference, held November 14 in Columbus, are now available. To download the presentations, go here.
  
  
• Dan O'Day added to lineup of free online sales trainings offered to OAB members. LocalBroadcastSales.com—the online training module OAB is providing free of charge to OAB members through the end of the year—has added two new trainers: Dan O’Day and Healthcare Sales expert Andrea Eliscu. They join Paul Weyland, John Tkac, Ron Steiner, and many more in this unique sales training program designed for both radio & television stations. However, the deadline to take advantage of this free training program is December 31, 2008. For more information about the program content, or to register for LocalBroadcastSales.com, please go here.
  
  
• The revised edition of The FCC’s Equal Employment Opportunity Rules: A Primer for Ohio Broadcast Stations was mailed to all OAB member stations on October 7th. A limited number of these booklets are still available; member stations desiring additional copies should contact the OAB.
  
  
• OAB Files Comments with Ohio Supreme Court on Proposed Court Record Access Rules. The OAB joined the Ohio Newspaper Association and a number of other news organizations in comments filed with the Ohio Supreme Court regarding proposed rules governing media and citizen access to court records. The joint comments opposed parts of the new Rules of Superintendence because they would deny public access to a wide variety of court records based solely on the content of those records. Content that could be removed from court records includes “personal identifiers” such as social security numbers and the names of children. To download a copy of the joint comments, go here.