http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-05-15T23:21:37-04:00 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5087.html 2008-02-03T02:09:00-05:00 2008-02-03T02:09:00-05:00 RBR/TVBR The Federal Communications Commission has issued the full text of its Report on Broadcast Localism, combined with a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in which it contemplates significant re-regulation in a number of areas. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5082.html 2008-02-01T09:51:00-05:00 2008-02-01T09:51:00-05:00 Dave Seyler FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein (D) contributed his two cents in the wake of reports from NAB and the Consumers Union on the state of public http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5049.html 2008-01-31T19:51:00-05:00 2008-01-31T19:51:00-05:00 RBR/TVBR One of the many actions taken at the FCC's exceptional 12/18/07 Open Meeting was the ratification of a new questionnaire which will require television operators http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5042.html 2008-01-31T12:12:00-05:00 2008-01-31T12:12:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Both the Consumers Union and the National Association of Broadcasters fired off studies measuring the state of consumer awareness concerning the upcoming DTV transition (see http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5012.html 2008-01-30T15:19:00-05:00 2008-01-30T15:19:00-05:00 RBR/TVBR The topic is broadcast indecency. Attorney Peter Gutmann of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC has taken a look at the FCC's 1.43M fine aimed http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5010.html 2008-01-30T10:11:00-05:00 2008-01-30T10:11:00-05:00 Dave Seyler H.R. 2102 has been passed by the House of Representatives back in October, and now the NAB wants the Senate to perform the same service http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4975.html 2008-01-29T09:35:00-05:00 2008-01-29T09:35:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet has announced the lineup of witnesses for its hearing on "Public, Educational and Government (PEG) Services in the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4973.html 2008-01-29T09:32:00-05:00 2008-01-29T09:32:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Staff at the Federal Election Commission has issued an advisory opinion based on requests from SpeechNow.org and FreeCause Inc. The SpeechNow question asked for opinion http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4935.html 2008-01-28T09:28:00-05:00 2008-01-28T09:28:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet is going to chew up the DTV Transition topic 2/13/08, almost a full year before analog broadcasts http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4915.html 2008-01-25T10:23:00-05:00 2008-01-25T10:23:00-05:00 Dave Seyler It seems like the frequency of license renewal challenges is picking up. The novelty of some them certainly is, like the informal objection filed by http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4914.html 2008-01-25T10:22:00-05:00 2008-01-25T10:22:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The average amount of time allocated to public service announcements on video distribution entities is 17 seconds per hour, according to a new Kaiser Family http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4856.html 2008-01-23T14:44:00-05:00 2008-01-23T14:44:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The FCC did not receive necessary paperwork for 14 singleton AM Auction 84 applications by the 9/26/07 deadline, and therefore has summarily dismissed them. In http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4852.html 2008-01-23T14:42:00-05:00 2008-01-23T14:42:00-05:00 Dave Seyler As predicted, the FCC cited the First Amendment as one reason for it to stay out of the dispute between Democratic long-shot presidential candidate Dennis http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4816.html 2008-01-22T09:19:00-05:00 2008-01-22T09:19:00-05:00 Dave Seyler CNN says participants in a South Carolina Democratic debate need to meet two criteria: A third-place of better finish in a contest sanctioned by the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4815.html 2008-01-22T09:18:00-05:00 2008-01-22T09:18:00-05:00 Dave Seyler That's the Byron Dorgan (D-ND) bill that would set up extra hoops for the FCC any time it wishes to change a rule impacting media