Tix are available for T Howard Foundation’s annual NYC fundraising dinner Wed honoring John Sie. They’ll also present the 1st "Taylor Howard Lifetime Achievement Award," to BET co-founder and philanthropist Sheila Johnson. T Howard aims is to bring people of color and women into DBS and cable. For tix: Sheila Robinson, 703-739-8368 or srobinson@sbca.org. — Last Wed Comcast celebrated the opening of the Comcast Technology Labs in the Honickman Learning Center, a high-tech edifice with 16 wired classrooms where members of the depressed St Elizabeth/Diamond St section of N. Philly (57% drop out rate) can receive job training and education. Brian and Aileen Roberts and the Comcast Foundation partnered in developing The Center.

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Groups Get Their Media Ownership Takes In

This week’s news of Nexstar and TEGNA agreeing to merge certainly poured gasoline on the fire, which was a fitting precursor to Friday’s deadline to submit reply comments in the FCC’s review of the national TV ownership rules.

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