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Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-08-29T21:01:50-05:00 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3353.html 2007-09-07T22:41:00-05:00 2007-09-07T22:41:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie One of the ramifications of the Democratic takeover of Congress was renewed activity on the oversight front, a fact of life to which the commissioners http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3333.html 2007-09-06T10:41:00-05:00 2007-09-06T10:41:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie The full FCC has backed up the Media Bureau in denying Comcast a waiver of the rule requiring cable companies to incorporate CableCARD functionality, separating http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3329.html 2007-09-06T22:41:00-05:00 2007-09-06T22:41:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie At next week's 9/11/07 open meeting of the FCC, the commissioners will consider items on mandatory carriage of digital broadcast television signals after the DTV http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3319.html 2007-09-06T22:41:00-05:00 2007-09-06T22:41:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie Blogs such as The DailyKos, just like a broadcast station, newspaper, network or cable channel, are allowed to sell advertising AND promote various candidates for http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3313.html 2007-09-06T22:41:00-05:00 2007-09-06T22:41:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie Citizens objecting to the airing of allegedly indecent material have filed to deny license renewals for stations owned by Clear Channel and Emmis. In Clear http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3311.html 2007-09-06T22:41:00-05:00 2007-09-06T22:41:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie Former FCC Chairman Mark Fowler took to the pages of the New York Sun to suggest that the FCC and DOJ should step back and http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3288.html 2007-09-05T16:41:00-05:00 2007-09-05T16:41:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie The full FCC road show on media ownership plans to be in Chicago on 9/20/97, and now we know where. The forum will be held http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3282.html 2007-09-05T22:41:00-05:00 2007-09-05T22:41:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie Chris Shays (R-CT) and Marty Meehan (ex-D-MA) lost their challenge of a Federal Election Commission decision on 527 organizations in a decision related to the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3253.html 2007-08-15T13:59:00-05:00 2007-08-15T13:59:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie Among the many problems exposed by Hurricane Katrina was a problem getting emergency warnings and post-emergency information to non-English speakers. A conference was held by http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3252.html 2007-08-15T13:58:00-05:00 2007-08-15T13:58:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie Who says Washington politics can't be fun? The folks at the student-founded Consumer Coalition for Competition in Satellite Radio (C3SR) have taken to YouTube with http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3239.html 2007-08-15T13:51:00-05:00 2007-08-15T13:51:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie Making sure that minority advertising businesses get their fair share of government contract work has long been a pet project of John Kerry (D-MA). Now http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3229.html 2007-09-04T01:31:00-05:00 2007-09-04T01:31:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie Yet another TV station is facing a fine from the FCC for exceeding commercial time limits in children's programming. Tribune Company's KHCW-TV (Ch. 39, CW) http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3228.html 2007-09-04T01:31:00-05:00 2007-09-04T01:31:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie Israel G. Ybanez, a sole proprietor, failed to file a license renewal for KYMI-FM Los Ybanez, TX and continued to operate the station for a http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3213.html 2007-10-22T09:57:00-05:00 2007-10-22T09:57:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie The communications/electronics industry is ranked 7th out of 13 business sectors in terms of donating cash into the 2008 political races. It's responsible for over http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3199.html 2007-10-22T09:42:00-05:00 2007-10-22T09:42:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie Is mooter a word? If not, can we coin it, as in it doesn't get much mooter than this? Anyway, the parade of out-to-lunch license http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3190.html 2007-10-22T21:33:00-05:00 2007-10-22T21:33:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie Did the folks in the Clear Channel mailroom in San Antonio realize they were handling merchandise worth over two million bucks when a letter to http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3188.html 2007-10-22T09:31:00-05:00 2007-10-22T09:31:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie The watchdog community was ready, and the aiming seemed already to have been done, when FCC Chairman Kevin Martin announced his intention to try for http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3179.html 2007-10-23T20:50:00-05:00 2007-10-23T20:50:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie For Tribune's 8.2B privatization to go forward, it needs to have newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership restrictions either waived temporarily or lifted altogether. Los Angeles Times is reporting http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3158.html 2007-10-23T08:50:00-05:00 2007-10-23T08:50:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie For Tribune's 8.2B privatization to go forward, it needs to have newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership restrictions either waived temporarily or lifted altogether. Los Angeles Times is reporting http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3142.html 2007-10-19T08:55:00-05:00 2007-10-19T08:55:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie Howard C. Toole was the winning Auction No. 70 bidder for a new FM CP in Plainview GA, in the vicinity of Rome GA, but http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3140.html 2007-10-23T08:50:00-05:00 2007-10-23T08:50:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie The campaigns for federal office have already spend over 368M this cycle, even though the first vote is still months away, we aren't even in http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3138.html 2007-10-23T08:50:00-05:00 2007-10-23T08:50:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie More particularly, Barack Obama (D-IL), one of the leading candidates for the Democratic party's presidential nomination, wants issues on minority ownership and localism addressed before http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3133.html 2007-10-19T20:48:00-05:00 2007-10-19T20:48:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) is said to be pulling the plug on his presidential campaign, with an announcement expected today. He has not fared well http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3130.html 2007-10-19T08:45:00-05:00 2007-10-19T08:45:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is looking to tie up whatever loose ends he thinks are dangling on the FCC review and redo of the 2003 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3118.html 2007-10-24T18:16:00-05:00 2007-10-24T18:16:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie It is becoming clearer by the minute that Democrats with an opinion about media ownership rules do not want the FCC making any, probably up