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Broadcasters, lawmakers and other VIPs in the nation’s capital turned out Monday evening (May 24) to view the first mobile devices capable of picking up over-the-air digital broadcasts. Sponsored by the broadcaster-supported Open Mobile Video Coalition, the event held at the Newseum was an opportunity for the TV industry to show regulators and legislators how mobile digital TV was as much a part of the future of media as broadband.

Within view of the Capitol, broadcasters took the opportunity to defend their spectrum at a time when the Federal Communications Commission would like some of it back in an effort to speed broadband distribution.

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