http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-07-09T04:20:33-05:00 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4975.html 2008-01-29T09:35:00-06:00 2008-01-29T09:35:00-06:00 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 2008-01-29T09:32:00-06:00 2008-01-29T09:32:00-06:00 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 2008-01-28T09:28:00-06:00 2008-01-28T09:28:00-06:00 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 2008-01-25T10:23:00-06:00 2008-01-25T10:23:00-06:00 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 2008-01-25T10:22:00-06:00 2008-01-25T10:22:00-06:00 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 2008-01-23T14:44:00-06:00 2008-01-23T14:44:00-06:00 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 2008-01-23T14:42:00-06:00 2008-01-23T14:42:00-06:00 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 2008-01-22T09:19:00-06:00 2008-01-22T09:19:00-06:00 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 2008-01-22T09:18:00-06:00 2008-01-22T09:18:00-06:00 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 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4790.html 2008-01-21T09:34:00-06:00 2008-01-21T09:34:00-06:00 Dave Seyler That's as in white space, the spectrum in the television zone between licensed broadcast channels, which is being targeted big time by high-tech companies that http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4788.html 2008-01-21T09:33:00-06:00 2008-01-21T09:33:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Nicolas Paula is a member of the spectrum buccaneer community, New York market division. His unlicensed station was caught operating on 94.5 MHz in the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4784.html 2008-01-21T09:28:00-06:00 2008-01-21T09:28:00-06:00 Dave Seyler The John Dingell (D-MI)/Ed Markey (D-MA) Show is not reliant on Hollywood writers, and it is ready to go on national TV (C-SPAN, most likely) http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4749.html 2008-01-18T12:18:00-06:00 2008-01-18T12:18:00-06:00 Dave Seyler A film called "Hillary: The Movie" is ready to enter the fray of the 2008 campaign, and its backers/creators want to make it available on http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4722.html 2008-01-17T08:08:00-06:00 2008-01-17T08:08:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Broadcast issues of interest to the non-profit sector are on the schedule for discussion in the upcoming weeks, one from the private sector and one http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4706.html 2008-01-16T09:53:00-06:00 2008-01-16T09:53:00-06:00 Dave Seyler The retirement of Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) due to illness may open up the top slot at the House Foreign Affairs Committee for Howard L.