NAB offers members health benefits

The National Association of Broadcasters is offering medical, dental and
vision plans to TV stations with as few as two employees, the association said
Thursday.

For medical care, the NAB is offering stations the American Media Benefits
Plan, which gives them a choice between six separate benefits packages: four
'preferred-provider' options and two 'limited benefit' options.

The NAB also has discounted dental and visual plans available.

Interested NAB members should call Jim Birchfield, director of member
services, at 202-429-5492.

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.