http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-05-16T01:06:04-04:00 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5463.html 2008-02-18T15:23:00-05:00 2008-02-18T15:23:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The FCC's NPRM on enhancing broadcast localism has officially made it into the Federal Register under MB Docket No. 04-233. The official publication date was http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5448.html 2008-02-16T17:26:00-05:00 2008-02-16T17:26:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Among the biggest political donors in the broadcast world for the 2008 election cycle is Clear Channel. Some will be surprised at where the radio/outdoor http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5452.html 2008-02-16T17:29:00-05:00 2008-02-16T17:29:00-05:00 Dave Seyler In last week's story of National Association of Broadcaster campaign contributions, we noted that among the beneficiaries of the NAB's generosity were prominent members of http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5385.html 2008-02-13T16:03:00-05:00 2008-02-13T16:03:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Senate Commerce Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-HI) and House Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-MA) aren't messing around. They would like an interagency task force put http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5386.html 2008-02-13T16:04:00-05:00 2008-02-13T16:04:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The Senate Commerce Committee has called off today's hearing on the DTV transition, which would have come just 24 hours after a similar session in http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5332.html 2008-02-12T15:22:00-05:00 2008-02-12T15:22:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The Commerce Committees have lined up their DTV witnesses, and the two key government representatives will be doing double duty. The hearing today at the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5299.html 2008-02-11T15:15:00-05:00 2008-02-11T15:15:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The National Association of Broadcasters traditionally hands out cash to members of both political parties -- a key factor isn't necessarily which side of the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5284.html 2008-02-11T09:28:00-05:00 2008-02-11T09:28:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Both Commerce Committees have the DTV transition on the agenda this week. The House takes it up on Wednesday and the Senate follows suit on http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5257.html 2008-02-08T12:32:00-05:00 2008-02-08T12:32:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Yet another license renewal challenge has worked its way through FCC channels. This time, Greenwich Broadcasting Corp.'s WGCH-AM Greenwich CT incited the wrath of several http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5259.html 2008-02-08T12:33:00-05:00 2008-02-08T12:33:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Ken Ferree is President of the Progress & Freedom Foundation, but he was a key exec at the FCC under Michael Powell as Chief of http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5219.html 2008-02-07T09:14:00-05:00 2008-02-07T09:14:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The House Energy and Commerce Committee held an event demonstrating a number of digital-to-analog converter boxes to members of Congress and their staffs, in hopes http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5195.html 2008-02-06T10:37:00-05:00 2008-02-06T10:37:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The official rules are out on the 12/18/07 FCC move opening the top 20 DMAs to broadcast/newspaper cross-owned combinations. Democratic Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5194.html 2008-02-06T10:36:00-05:00 2008-02-06T10:36:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The FCC is looking to get 338.9M for fiscal 2009, about 26M more than it received for the current year, and President Bush has plugged http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5161.html 2008-02-05T09:57:00-05:00 2008-02-05T09:57:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The battle over allowing LPFMs to shoehorn onto the dial by being able to occupy frequencies in the 3rd-adjacent slot to existing full-power stations has http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5157.html 2008-02-05T09:55:00-05:00 2008-02-05T09:55:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Watchdog Commercial Alert has been trying to get both the FTC and FCC to come up with new rules governing the advertising practice of product