Beacon Award Nominations Due March 18

The Association of Cable Communicators has set a March 18, 2016, deadline for its Beacon Awards, which recognize excellence in communications and public affairs.

The awards will be handed out June 21 during ACC's annual Forum, this year in New York City.

Entries may be e-mailed, but ACC asks that project summaries be limited to one page, though it will not roundfile two-pagers.

ACA is also encouraging early submissions, offering a $50 discount for submissions received by March 4.

The awards are for campaigns or programs executive, and results achieved, between April 1, 2015 and March 31. 2016.

For more information, go here: https://www.cablecommunicators.org/awards_beacon.php.

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.