http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-11-20T08:57:00-06:00 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/elections_from_all_over_rule.html 2008-07-01T18:04:00-05:00 2008-07-01T18:04:00-05:00 RBR/TVBR Well, maybe politics wasn't all that was going on, according to the Project for Excellence in Journalism survey for 6/23/08-6/29-08, but it did lead the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/54_win_murrow_awards.html 2008-07-01T05:45:00-05:00 2008-07-01T05:45:00-05:00 Jack Messmer Out of 3,459 entries, the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) has awarded 77 2008 Edward R. Murrow Awards to 54 news organizations. ABC News won a total of six http://www.rbr.com/media-news/cnet_now_part_of_cbs.html 2008-06-30T06:05:00-05:00 2008-06-30T06:05:00-05:00 Jack Messmer CBS Corporation closed on its $1.8 billion acquisition of CNET networks and merged the company into an expanded CBS Interactive. Quincy Smith has moved up to CEO of CBS Interactive from http://www.rbr.com/media-news/vss_acquires_majority_stake_in_brand_connections.html 2008-06-30T14:02:00-05:00 2008-06-30T14:02:00-05:00 Jack Messmer Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS), a private equity firm focused on media, information and education industries, has acquired a majority stake in Brand Connections. The company http://www.rbr.com/media-news/senators_propose_xm_sirius_conditions.html 2008-06-30T09:30:00-05:00 2008-06-30T09:30:00-05:00 Dave Seyler How does providing leased access for 50% of the channel capacity of the merged XM/Sirius entity grab you? Three US senators think that would be an entirely reasonable condition to impose http://www.rbr.com/media-news/8396.html 2008-06-29T07:46:00-05:00 2008-06-29T07:46:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie Big Apple's WCBS, WNET, WFUV, WINS and WOR Also Multiple Award Winners; WGY, WSYR, WHAM, WXXI, WIVB, WBAB, WLNY, WBNG and WRNN Are Pace Setters http://www.rbr.com/media-news/8330.html 2008-06-25T18:27:00-05:00 2008-06-25T18:27:00-05:00 Jack Messmer A survey by Rasmussen Reports finds that 49% of Americans think there should be federal regulation of what’s on the Internet, just like FCC regulation http://www.rbr.com/media-news/univision_ya_es_hora.html 2008-06-25T13:13:00-05:00 2008-06-25T13:13:00-05:00 Carl Marcucci Univision Communications and the “Ya es Hora” (It's Time) national partners, announced the expansion of this award-winning civic engagement campaign through new local efforts in http://www.rbr.com/media-news/8291.html 2008-06-24T18:12:00-05:00 2008-06-24T18:12:00-05:00 Jack Messmer Zenith Electronics reports the death of retired engineer Carl Eilers, who headed the company’s effort to develop the stereo FM standard that the FCC adopted http://www.rbr.com/media-news/8295.html 2008-06-24T06:16:00-05:00 2008-06-24T06:16:00-05:00 Jack Messmer No surprise here. Now that it is public knowledge that Fisher Communications turned down a buyout proposal in April, one of its hedge fund investors is pressing the board of directors http://www.rbr.com/media-news/george_carlin_dead_at_71.html 2008-06-23T18:15:00-05:00 2008-06-23T18:15:00-05:00 Jack Messmer The DJ turned stand-up comedian was always proud that he had a place in broadcasting history, since it was the airing of his “Seven Dirty http://www.rbr.com/media-news/fisher_rejected_550_million_buyout_offer.html 2008-06-23T06:20:00-05:00 2008-06-23T06:20:00-05:00 Jack Messmer Fisher Communications has confirmed that its board rejected an unsolicited takeover bid in April for $43-45 per share. At the high end, that would have valued the TV and radio company at $550 million http://www.rbr.com/media-news/iowa_broadcasters_soaked_in_localism.html 2008-06-23T06:18:00-05:00 2008-06-23T06:18:00-05:00 Jack Messmer If FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wants to find out about broadcast localism, he has an invitation to come to Iowa. Sue Toma, Executive Director of the IBA, has written to Martin to tell him what’s been going on http://www.rbr.com/media-news/surprise_anti-consolidation_measure_surfaces.html 2008-06-18T11:19:00-05:00 2008-06-18T11:19:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Representatives Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Dave Reichert (R-WA) were handling the House version of Byron Dorgan’s Resolution of Disapproval, which would remove the force from http://www.rbr.com/media-news/8252.html 2008-06-22T12:56:00-05:00 2008-06-22T12:56:00-05:00 Jack Messmer The glam-rock band Poison is hardly the first musical act to claim it was cheated by its record label, but it is the latest to http://www.rbr.com/media-news/8241.html 2008-06-22T12:48:00-05:00 2008-06-22T12:48:00-05:00 Jack Messmer After years of battling to keep its federal funding from going to zero, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is finding the Democratic majority in Congress http://www.rbr.com/media-news/winners_at_the_35th_annual_daytime_emmys.html 2008-06-21T03:54:00-05:00 2008-06-21T03:54:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie ABC's new approach to a lagging and dull awards show turned out to be a fun event. The 35th Daytime Emmys added a new twist http://www.rbr.com/media-news/second_source_sees_tate_as_possible_merger_wildcard.html 2008-06-18T03:20:00-05:00 2008-06-18T03:20:00-05:00 Dave Seyler We were the first source – FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate is a Republican and usually seems to prefer as hands-off a stance as is http://www.rbr.com/media-news/cbc_not_interested_in_xm_sirius_crumbs.html 2008-06-17T13:09:00-05:00 2008-06-17T13:09:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Members of the Congressional Black Caucus saw the 4% set-aside for women and minorities mentioned in the XM/Sirius merger package sanctioned by FCC Chairman Kevin http://www.rbr.com/media-news/8212.html 2008-06-19T17:38:00-05:00 2008-06-19T17:38:00-05:00 Jack Messmer Dissident CNET shareholder Jana Partners has officially dropped its proxy battle for control of the company’s board. Rather, it is banking on the pending buyout