http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-07-04T22:46:34-05:00 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5844.html 2008-03-05T21:51:00-06:00 2008-03-05T21:51:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Traditionally, the FCC Chair gets out of the way and allows the new president to put his own choice in the position. But http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5847.html 2008-03-06T15:53:00-06:00 2008-03-06T15:53:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Everybody seems to agree that the FCC's action on cross-ownership was arbitrary and capricious. Some also believe its lack of action on other broadcast ownership http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5812.html 2008-03-05T09:48:00-06:00 2008-03-05T09:48:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Can't see this case going anywhere, unless it turns out that the malfunction was caused by interference from one of those experimental unlicensed white space devices. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5805.html 2008-03-05T21:40:00-06:00 2008-03-05T21:40:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Wondering how John McCain (R-AZ) handled this the first time Dorgan used the tactic? Answer: Agreed with Dorgan philosophically but opposed the tactic. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5808.html 2008-03-05T21:45:00-06:00 2008-03-05T21:45:00-06:00 Dave Seyler It is not a constitutional right to see any games, or to set the price to see them, or to demand that programmers show them at all. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5806.html 2008-03-05T15:43:00-06:00 2008-03-05T15:43:00-06:00 Dave Seyler A number of measures directed at increasing the number of "eligible entities" in the ranks of broadcast owners are officially out on the street after http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5873.html 2008-03-09T15:27:00-05:00 2008-03-09T15:27:00-05:00 Dave Seyler This is where a lot of the last-minute political buys will be coming from, especially if you're in a district that wasn't on anybody's map but suddenly proves competitive. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5766.html 2008-03-04T15:33:00-06:00 2008-03-04T15:33:00-06:00 Dave Seyler The witnesses are lined up for the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet hearing tomorrow entitled “Competition in the Sports Programming Marketplace.” (And you thought http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5767.html 2008-03-04T15:34:00-06:00 2008-03-04T15:34:00-06:00 Dave Seyler The ongoing road show presented by the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation will pull into the Tampa Convention Center next week, 3/13/08. It’s actually http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5731.html 2008-03-03T09:54:00-06:00 2008-03-03T09:54:00-06:00 Dave Seyler RBR/TVBR observation: If we were ABC, we would be arguing that this alone constitutes 1,339,000 reasons to throw the fine out on grounds of selective enforcement. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5738.html 2008-03-03T15:57:00-06:00 2008-03-03T15:57:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Informed on 2/20/07 of a hole in the fence around the tower for KRAE-AM Cheyenne WY, owned by Brahmin Broadcasting Corporation, the staff felt pretty http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5717.html 2008-03-02T12:07:00-06:00 2008-03-02T12:07:00-06:00 Dave Seyler FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate (R) has gone where no woman has gone before: To the list of honorees recognized as the annual recipient of http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5719.html 2008-03-02T12:09:00-06:00 2008-03-02T12:09:00-06:00 Dave Seyler And the way it happened has rivals pondering possible complaints to regulatory authorities. ABC KEZI-TV 9 in Eugene OR is the on-air home of newsman http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5718.html 2008-03-02T12:08:00-06:00 2008-03-02T12:08:00-06:00 Dave Seyler The NTIA is charged with running the digital-to-analog converter box coupon program portion of the DTV transition, but it is undergoing a good bit of http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5659.html 2008-02-28T09:27:00-06:00 2008-02-28T09:27:00-06:00 Dave Seyler As the term of George W. Bush winds through its final year, we may see variations of this story in all sectors of his administration.