Public Broadcasting Report

JEFFREY BROWN: Also this weekend, and again today, the Bush administration asserted it was not looking to provoke a war with Iran.

And for more on all of this, we get two views. Flynt Leverett covered Middle East terrorism and political issues at the CIA, State Department, and on the National Security Council staff from 1992 to 2003. He's now a senior fellow at the New America Foundation...

Mr. Leverett, what is your overall reaction to yesterday's briefing?FLYNT… more

SUZANNE PRATT: In one of the first major votes of the new session of Congress, the House today approved a rule requiring new tax cuts be paid with tax hikes or reduced spending. House Democrats say it`s a first step toward putting the people`s fiscal house in order. And as Stephanie Dhue reports, experts say that was the easy part.STEPHANIE DHUE, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: With the Federal debt nearing $9 trillion, House majority leader Steny Hoyer says… more

Distributed transmission system (DTS) broadcasting's prospects are helped by the Metropolitan TV Alliance's request to test the technology in N.Y.C., said Merrill Weiss, a consultant who has works with DTS. "Certainly, that adds credibility to what we've been doing elsewhere," Weiss said. DTS allows TV broadcasters to use multiple, smaller towers transmitting, in a cell-like grid, identical signals to provide over-the-air TV coverage to receivers underserved by a traditional high-power tall broadcast tower. N.Y. broadcasters lost their perch atop the… more