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SBCA soon will file formal comments with the FCC on behalf of satellite radio providers Sirius and XM Satellite Radio. This filing will respond to criticism from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) alleging the satellite radio providers violated FCC regulations by delivering local weather and traffic reports to their subscribers. The claim is just plain wrong. Our FCC filing will demonstrate Sirius and XM are providing local weather and traffic reports, and all other service in full compliance with FCC rules and regulations. We believe recent NAB efforts to alter the licenses held by these two carriers are the NAB's response to satellite radio's success in the marketplace. The satellite entertainment industries are making substantial progress on Wall Street, and they are performing well in the marketplace. Ten years ago, cable operators controlled nearly 100 percent of multi-channel video subscribers, and now satellite TV companies provide service to nearly 22 percent of multi-channel households. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in its recently released 2003 study on competition in the multi-channel marketplace, recognized Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) as \"the most significant national competitor to cable.\" Littleton. Colo.- based EchoStar Communications [DISH] announced last week it added approximately 360,000 net new subscribers during the first quarter of this year, and El Segundo, Calif.-based DirecTV chalked up 460,000 net new owned and operated subscribers - an all time record for the largest U.S. satellite TV operator. DirecTV's total of 12.6 million subscribers, combined with EchoStar's 9.7 million subscribers, totals more than 20 million total subscriptions in just 10 years of satellite TV's existence.

Exploring the concept and history of visual and graphic epistemologies, this engrossing collection of essays by artists, curators, and scholars provides keen insights into the many forms of connection between visibility and legibility. With more than 130 color and black-and-white photographs,Visible Writingssheds new light on the visual dimensions of writing as well as writing's interaction with images in ways that affect our experiences of reading and seeing.Multicultural in character and historical in range, essays discuss pre-Colombian Mesoamerican scripts, inscriptions on ancient Greek vases, medieval illuminations, Renaissance prints, Enlightenment concepts of the legible, and the Western \"reading\" of Chinese ideograms. A rich array of modern forms, including comics, poster art, typographic signs, scribblings in writers' manuscripts, anthropomorphic statistical pictograms, the street writings of 9/11, intersections between poetry and painting, the use of color in literary texts, and the use of writing in visual art are also addressed.Visible Writingsreaches outside the traditional venues of literature and art history into topics that consider design, history of writing, philosophy of language, and the emerging area of visual studies. Marija Dalbello, Mary Shaw, and the other contributors offer both scholars and those with a more casual interest in literature and art the opportunity, simply stated, to see the writing on the wall.