Vivvo CMS 4.0 http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.rbr.com/files.php?file=rss_logo1_757997737.jpg http://www.rbr.com/ http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5257.html WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:32:00 -0600 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:33:00 -0600 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:14:00 -0600 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:37:00 -0600 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:36:00 -0600 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:57:00 -0600 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:55:00 -0600 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 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5116.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:22:00 -0600 Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) temporarily filled the vacancy left in the Senate by the retirement of Trent Lott (R-MS) with a member of the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5113.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:20:00 -0600 No, the Red party didn't score four touchdowns while surrendering a field goal and a safety to the Blues. And this is not the score http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5087.html WASHINGTON BEAT Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:09:00 -0600 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:51:00 -0600 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:51:00 -0600 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:12:00 -0600 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:19:00 -0600 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:11:00 -0600 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