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Tom Meek

Born	1956
Occupation	Author and Columnist
Nationality	American
Subjects	Computers Internet Issues
Literary movement	High-Tech

Tom Meek (b. Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty The United States of America —commonly referred to as the This is a list of modern literary movements: that is movements after the Renaissance. 1956) is a columnist and author of "Another Day In Cyberville" published weekly in The Gainesville Voice, a New York Times regional newspaper, beginning in October, 2000 in The Gainesville Sun. A columnist is a Journalist who writes material on a regular basis for publication in a series The Gainesville Sun ( is a Newspaper published daily in Gainesville, Florida, United States, covering the North-Central "Cyberville" deals with issues related to high-tech, computers, New Media and Internet issues. Meek also writes musical and other occasional features on persons such as trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and American composer Joseph Byrd for publication in print and online, and is the author of online blogs dealing with media and music. Joseph Byrd (almost no one except Columbia Records ever called him "Joe" (born December 19 1937 in Louisville Kentucky, raised Tucson Arizona A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of Meek has also served as a media consultant for interests worldwide including the Fox Broadcasting Network, Swedish Televerket and numerous Fortune 500 companies, and is an expert witness certified by the United States Supreme Court on media and copyright issues related to cable television and broadcast television. Please do not add the complete list of fortune 500 companies The list is copyrighted by Fortune which makes money by selling the content An expert witness is a Witness, who by virtue of Education, Training, Skill, or Experience, is believed to have Knowledge The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. Terrestrial television is a term which refers to modes of television broadcasting which do not involve satellite transmission

Meek originally began involvement in media by doing volunteer music programming at WIOT-FM at age 12. WIOT is a FM Radio station in Toledo Ohio. Owned by Clear Channel Communications, the station broadcasts at 104 He then extended his involvement in music by serving as a DJ and sound and light engineer at the Catacombs Coffee House in Sylvania, Ohio from 1969-72. Sylvania is a city in Lucas County, Ohio, United States. The population was 18670 at the 2000 census. Meek began his television career while still in high school as a producer for WSPD-TV in Toledo, Ohio in 1973. For the former co-owned Newark New Jersey television station that used the WTVG calls see WFUT-TV. This article is about the city in Ohio, USA. For Toledo Spain, see that article He also served as an Ohio county-level student coordinator in the 1972 presidential campaign of Senator George McGovern. George Stanley McGovern He moved to Columbus, Ohio in 1976, where he worked as a music buyer for the Peaches Records chain. Columbus is the Capital and the largest city of the US state of Ohio. After spending a year in Boston, Massachusetts at Grahm Junior College in 1978-79, Meek moved to Gainesville, Florida and graduated from the University of Florida in 1982 with a degree in Communications while working at WUFT-TV and other media positions at the university from 1980-82. Grahm Junior College, a now-defunct institution formerly located in Boston Massachusetts, was once one of Boston's busiest 2-year colleges Gainesville is the largest City in and County seat of Alachua County, Florida, United States. The University of Florida ( Florida or UF) is a public land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant major Research In his final semester Meek helped launch a new graduate level communications degree program, serving as director and co-producer of a drama "Ernie Pyle, Here Is My War", winner of the 1982 Alpha Epsilon Rho Grand Prize for Drama. Ernest Taylor Pyle ( August 3 1900 &ndash April 18 1945) was an American Journalist who wrote as a roving correspondent

Although he initially planned to pursue a journalism master's degree in Gainesville, Meek immediately began working as a producer and researcher at WFTV-TV, Orlando when offered a job in May, 1982. For the defunct television station in Duluth Minnesota, see WFTV (Duluth. After two years producing a morning news and information program, he was hired at WOFL-TV in April, 1984, initially as Community Affairs Director, then as Station Operations Manager beginning in 1986. While at WOFL-TV, Meek wrote, produced and edited a number of documentaries, including a program on Louis Comfort Tiffany and the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, Florida which was credited with helping keep the Morse collections intact for an eventual larger museum, and a program on the introduction of Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) into Central Florida, which won a medal at the New York International Film & Television Festival [1] in 1984. Louis Comfort Tiffany ( February 18, 1848 &ndash January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art houses the most comprehensive collection of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany found anywhere a major collection of American Winter Park is a city in Orange County, Florida, United States. "HMO" redirects here For other uses see HMO (disambiguation. Meek's television producing experience exceeds 500 programs including documentaries, information, telethons, talk and public service, several thousand program segments, and serving as Executive Producer for thousands more news and public service programs.

In 1987, at the request of several television stations, law firms and the Fox Broadcasting Network, Meek began a consulting practice in issues related to cable-broadcast television issues, which expanded to include a wide range of areas related to copyright, TV and radio station startups, disaster and strategic plans, Nielsen ratings, FAA airspace issues, digital television, tower construction and zoning issues, writing for print and television, multimedia production and other media issues. Nielsen Ratings are audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the Audience size and composition of television In 1989 Meek produced and moderated a set of four nationwide seminars for the NATPE Educational Foundation, which were seen as a groundbreaking effort to bring leaders of the broadcasting and cable industries directly together in a day-long event for the first time. NATPE the National Association of Television Program Executives, is an organization dedicated to providing information marketing and meeting opportunities in television programming In 1998 Meek expanded his consulting practice again to include computers, networks and Web design, with an additional added emphasis on skills training and Intranet/Internet Web-based collaboration.

Meek was repeatedly cited in the 1997 United States Supreme Court decision Turner Broadcasting vs. The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. FCC, which established the must-carry rules regarding cable carriage of broadcast television stations in the United States, where Meek represented the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), United States Department of Justice, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), the Association of Local Television Stations (ALTV), and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), among others. In Cable television, governments apply a must-carry regulation stating that locally-licensed television stations must be carried on a cable provider's system For animal rights group see Justice Department (JD The United States Department of Justice ( DOJ) is a Cabinet department National Association of Broadcasters (NAB is a trade association representing the interests of for-profit over-the-air radio and television broadcasters in the United States The Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS) is a Non-profit Public broadcasting Television service with 354 member TV stations in the Meek also produced research used by the U.S. Congress in passing the Satellite Home Viewer Act of 1988 governing the carriage of local television stations by Direct broadcast satellite providers. The United States Congress is the bicameral Legislature of the federal government of the United States of America, consisting of two houses Direct broadcast satellite (DBS is a term used to refer to Satellite television broadcasts intended for home reception also referred to more broadly as direct-to-home Meek has also been heavily involved in the rules governing syndicated program exclusivity ("Syndex") for broadcast television and "superstations" such as WGN-TV and WTBS-TV, submitting research in the United Video case which ruled in favor of Syndex . Syndication exclusivity (also known as syndex) is a Federal law in the United States designed to protect a local Television station 's rights WGN-TV, channel 9 is a Television station in Chicago Illinois. Meek maintains a Web page at the TVCCS site used by students and college classes in the U. S. concerning the history of must-carry and the Turner decision.

Meek is also a frequent guest on the WUFT-FM (Gainesville, FL) program "Conner Calling", hosted by Hank Conner, and has offered personal, online and satellite presentations to technical groups, professional and trade organizations, private business, museum docents, civic groups and secondary and college audiences nationwide on the use of the Internet, communications, computers, mobile television, public service rules for broadcast television, Louis Comfort Tiffany, television ratings, journalism and the history of must-carry and the Turner case for the past twenty years. WUFT-FM 891 is an NPR member radio station owned by the University of Florida in Gainesville Florida, broadcasting Classical music and

Meek also authors two blogs on media issues, "Reflections On Media" featuring information and reviews of recent media and music subjects, and "The Video Audio Overdose Galore" highlighting music and entertainment videos from online video and audio services. He is also the founder and moderator of CateraOwners, the world's largest owners group dedicated to the Cadillac Catera automobile, with more than 2000 members worldwide. The Cadillac Catera was a Mid-sized automobile that was largely a rebadged version of the Opel Omega MV6 made in Rüsselsheim

In 2007 Meek began authoring a weekly music events blog, "About & Out", for the Los-Angeles based music Web site LAJazz. com.

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