The country’s digital TV transition now history, Congress Tuesday gets its first view of what else President Obama could have coming from the Federal Communications Commission.

The Senate Commerce Committee is slated to hold a confirmation hearing on the president’s nomination of his close friend and campaign adviser Julius Genachowski as the new FCC chairman, as well as Robert McDowell, a Republican, to another term on the FCC.

It only seems logical, really.

President Obama, a longtime Chicago White Sox fan who sometimes would show up on the campaign trail wearing a Sox hat, is returning the tradition of the president throwing out the first ball at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

Major League Baseball said Tuesday that Obama would throw out the first ball July 14 in St. Louis.

It’s a White House visit for Ben Silverman, co-chair of NBC Entertainment and Universal Studios.

In Washington for Wednesday night’s premiere of “The Philanthropist” that was co-sponsored by the Creative Coalition and Microsoft’s Bing search engine,  Silverman was due Thursday to join the star of the program, James Purefoy, and others involved in the show in a tour of White House, an NBC spokeswoman said yesterday.

OK, your ads helped do the seemingly impossible in electing Barack Obama as President of the United States.

Then on top of it you find out that in a pretty usual forum for examining political ads -- the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival -- you win the top prize for ads worldwide last year by any marketer, the Cannes Lion Titanium and the Integrated Campaign Awards.