http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-11-20T09:24:19-06:00 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/xm_sirius_continues_to_draw_serious_response.html 2008-07-16T08:05:00-05:00 2008-07-16T08:05:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) wants HD capability incorporated into satellite receivers and the current proposed price cap term doubled. And NPR wants HD incorporated and a much larger set-aside for minority/NCE channels http://www.rbr.com/media-news/obama_blasts_past_wsj_estimate.html 2008-07-17T16:21:00-05:00 2008-07-17T16:21:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The campaign of Barack Obama (D-IL) openly ridiculed a recent Wall Street Journal article saying that it figured to bring in just over $30M during http://www.rbr.com/media-news/the_fcc_agenda_notable_for_what_s_not_there.html 2008-07-17T16:18:00-05:00 2008-07-17T16:18:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The proposed agenda for the August Open Meeting at the FCC, scheduled at the get-out-of-town-friendly date of 8/1/08, will include a look at how Comcast http://www.rbr.com/media-news/ad_recession_brings_bitter_enemies_together.html 2008-07-16T17:10:00-05:00 2008-07-16T17:10:00-05:00 Jack Messmer It has gotten to be so hard to make a buck in the newspaper business that even Rupert Murdoch and Mort Zuckerman are on speaking http://www.rbr.com/media-news/les_crane_dead_at_74.html 2008-07-16T17:08:00-05:00 2008-07-16T17:08:00-05:00 Jack Messmer The Los Angeles Times reports the death of Les Crane, the successful KGO-AM San Francisco talk host who was tapped by ABC Television in 1964 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/martin_wants_xm_sirius_vote_on_august_1st.html 2008-07-11T07:24:00-05:00 2008-07-11T07:24:00-05:00 Dave Seyler FCC Chairman Kevin Martin (R), told reporters Friday he wants the merger vote at the next Commission meeting, but that’s still a hope, not a http://www.rbr.com/media-news/journalists_stick_to_same_old_same_old.html 2008-07-15T11:59:00-05:00 2008-07-15T11:59:00-05:00 RBR/TVBR The 2008 campaign, the economy, the Middle East and the price of petroleum products continued to dominate media coverage during the week of 7/7/08-7/13/08, according http://www.rbr.com/media-news/house_democrats_reveal_battle_plans.html 2008-07-15T11:25:00-05:00 2008-07-15T11:25:00-05:00 Dave Seyler There will be no need to speculate on where the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee thinks some major House battleground contests will be waged. The DCCC http://www.rbr.com/media-news/roger_ailes_is_now_a_newspaper_man.html 2008-07-14T16:27:00-05:00 2008-07-14T16:27:00-05:00 Jack Messmer He isn’t quitting his day job as President of Fox News Channel and Chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group, but Roger Ailes and his http://www.rbr.com/media-news/tax_certificate_hearing_in_the_offing.html 2008-07-10T06:27:00-05:00 2008-07-10T06:27:00-05:00 Dave Seyler That’s the word from the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters, which itself is gearing up for its 32nd Annual Fall Broadcast Management Conference running http://www.rbr.com/media-news/xm_sirius_slithers_along.html 2008-07-14T01:50:00-05:00 2008-07-14T01:50:00-05:00 Dave Seyler A number of media outlets are reporting that as expected, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell has opted to go along with FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and approve the merger http://www.rbr.com/media-news/broadcasters_and_politicians_mourn_tony_snow.html 2008-07-12T18:38:00-05:00 2008-07-12T18:38:00-05:00 Jack Messmer Tony Snow’s long battle with cancer came to an end Saturday. He was only 53. His career had taken him in and out of the White House, behind a radio microphone and in front of TV cameras http://www.rbr.com/media-news/campaign_cash_war_shaping_up.html 2008-07-11T17:27:00-05:00 2008-07-11T17:27:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The warchest of John McCain (R-AZ) is expected to show $22M in June income, while Barack Obama (D-IL) is expected to announce income for the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/coen_s_ad_forecast_more_pessimistic.html 2008-07-07T15:02:00-05:00 2008-07-07T15:02:00-05:00 RBR/TVBR Declaring that the US ad market is "even worse" than expected when he issued his initial forecast in December, advertising guru Bob Coen http://www.rbr.com/media-news/tony_snow_dead_at_53.html 2008-07-12T06:36:00-05:00 2008-07-12T06:36:00-05:00 Jack Messmer Former White House press secretary and veteran broadcaster Tony Snow has died at age 53 after a long battle with cancer. CNN had recently announced http://www.rbr.com/media-news/immelt_in_spin_cycle.html 2008-07-10T11:55:00-05:00 2008-07-10T11:55:00-05:00 Jack Messmer General Electric is looking to do a big spin-off. No, it’s not NBC Universal. GE CEO Jeff Immelt yesterday announced that the company may spin-off http://www.rbr.com/media-news/alta_calls_in_the_cavalry.html 2008-07-10T11:34:00-05:00 2008-07-10T11:34:00-05:00 Dave Seyler First Broadcasting Investment Partners, one of the many broadcast holdings of Alta Communications, is merging its spectrum innovation assets with Cavalry Media Services. The merged http://www.rbr.com/media-news/xm_sirius_endgame_rumors_in_hyperdrive.html 2008-07-10T11:31:00-05:00 2008-07-10T11:31:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The rumor mill has it that the FCC has alerted representatives of XM and Sirius to have all hands on deck for the remainder of http://www.rbr.com/media-news/8577.html 2008-07-09T11:47:00-05:00 2008-07-09T11:47:00-05:00 Jack Messmer Jeff Kilrea Co-President, Corporate Finance at CapitalSource Finance LLC is the latest lending expert to check in as RBR/TVBR assesses the credit markets for radio http://www.rbr.com/media-news/another_issue_group_announces_media_plans.html 2008-07-09T17:05:00-05:00 2008-07-09T17:05:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Vets for Freedom says the money has to spend can be measured in the multi-millions of dollars, and it plans to spread that around in