http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-07-25T12:34:43-05:00 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5941.html 2008-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 2008-03-11T16:00:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Saturday Night Live veteran Al Franken has had a major hurdle cleared en route to his attempt to challenge Norm Coleman (R-MN) for the Minnesota http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5939.html 2008-03-11T15:58:00-05:00 2008-03-11T15:58:00-05:00 Dave Seyler H.R. 4882, the "Broadcast Licensing in the Public Interest Act," is in the hopper, introduced by Anna Eshoo (D-CA), with four co-sponsors. If enacted into http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5943.html 2008-03-11T16:02:00-05:00 2008-03-11T16:02:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The NAB Show in Las Vegas is on the calendars of FCC Commissioners Jonathan Adelstein (D) and Deborah Tate Taylor (R). They'll be the featured http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5942.html 2008-03-11T11:01:00-05:00 2008-03-11T11:01:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Many join together in challenging the rate schedule imposed by the National Copyright Board on internet music streaming. Lawsuit will be filed in the DC Circuit. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5903.html 2008-03-10T15:59:00-05:00 2008-03-10T15:59:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Just like the pirate Jean Lafitte, a pirate with possible connections to Napoleon Bonaparte and Andrew Jackson, this privateer of the electromagnetic spectrum in the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5908.html 2008-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 2008-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 Dave Seyler When Byron Dorgan (D-ND) announced he was reviving his Resolution of Disapproval tactic to block execution of the FCC's new acceptance of broadcast/print cross-owned groups http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5905.html 2008-03-10T15:59:00-05:00 2008-03-10T15:59:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Discussing XM/Sirius, former Attorney General Dick Thornburgh wrote, "To say that this proposed merger is problematic is an understatement." Using the OpEd space in the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5874.html 2008-03-07T16:28:00-06:00 2008-03-07T16:28:00-06:00 Dave Seyler The FCC celebrated the beginning of its mandate that all consumer video electronics devices, most notably television sets, include DTV tuners. After the quick issuance http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5901.html 2008-03-10T00:57:00-05:00 2008-03-10T00:57:00-05:00 Dave Seyler All kinds of investors have had a role in financing broadcasting companies. The fear some have with private equity is that it views ownership as a temporary matter -- it either swoops in to liquidate an acquisition, or it looks to quickly build value and sell. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5877.html 2008-03-07T11:30:00-06:00 2008-03-07T11:30:00-06:00 Dave Seyler A coalition of 47 state broadcaster associations was responsible for winning an extension of the comment and reply period on the FCC's NPRM on encouraging http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5876.html 2008-03-07T16:29:00-06:00 2008-03-07T16:29:00-06:00 Dave Seyler An indication that nobody is going to sit around twiddling their thumbs when a DTV issue comes up is the swiftness of the action to http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5841.html 2008-03-06T15:48:00-06:00 2008-03-06T15:48:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Paying attention to the local audience is a key part of the business plan of most successful broadcasters. But the one-size-fits-all approach to encouraging localism, http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5843.html 2008-03-05T21:50:00-06:00 2008-03-05T21:50:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Some might argue that there is no further cutting of costs possible, if increasing revenues is the goal (although that obviously is not stopping Farid Suleman at Citadel). And there don't seem to be too many buyers of any kind out there right now 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