http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-07-06T18:03:09-05:00 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4261.html 2007-08-24T07:48:00-05:00 2007-08-24T07:48:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie The Republican-controlled Michigan Senate has approved 1/15/08 as the date for some sort of primary event in that state, jumping it a week ahead of http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4245.html 2008-01-03T12:35:00-06:00 2008-01-03T12:35:00-06:00 Dave Seyler The deadline for the digital television conversion is just over a year away, and the FCC is helping to move the ball forward with a http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4242.html 2008-01-03T00:33:00-06:00 2008-01-03T00:33:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Both the Republicans and Democrats maintain three national election committees -- one each attached to the Senate (DSCC & NRSC), one each to the House http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4210.html 2007-09-28T07:19:00-05:00 2007-09-28T07:19:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie License renewal challenges continue to roll in to the FCC. This time the subject is noncommercial KUYI-FM Hotevilla AZ, licensed to The Hopi Foundation, which http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4209.html 2007-09-28T07:19:00-05:00 2007-09-28T07:19:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie Byron Dorgan (D-ND) has noted that membership on the Do Not Call registry is scheduled to expire 9/30/08, an automatic expiration date built into the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4197.html 2007-09-28T07:19:00-05:00 2007-09-28T07:19:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie License renewal challenges continue to roll in to the FCC. This time the subject is noncommercial KUYI-FM Hotevilla AZ, licensed to The Hopi Foundation, which http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4188.html 2007-09-28T07:19:00-05:00 2007-09-28T07:19:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie As radio broadcasters gathered in Charlotte were exhorted to fiercely oppose efforts to introduce a new performance tax on radio to benefit record companies, Rep. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4187.html 2007-09-28T07:19:00-05:00 2007-09-28T07:19:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie Byron Dorgan (D-ND) has noted that membership on the Do Not Call registry is scheduled to expire 9/30/08, an automatic expiration date built into the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4185.html 2007-09-28T07:19:00-05:00 2007-09-28T07:19:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie The Second Circuit Court in New York shot down the FCC's attempt to reverse its own long-standing policy and penalize broadcasters for allowing fleeting expletives http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4184.html 2007-09-28T07:19:00-05:00 2007-09-28T07:19:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein (D) and Watchdogs Center for Media and Democracy and Free Press are having their wishes fulfilled by the FCC. They were http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4180.html 2007-09-28T13:19:00-05:00 2007-09-28T13:19:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie Only half-joking, NAB Radio Board Chairman Russ Withers asked FCC Chairman Kevin Martin whether it is necessary to get a Congressman to ask the FCC http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4154.html 2007-09-27T07:19:00-05:00 2007-09-27T07:19:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie The FCC's designated VNR specialist Jonathan Adelstein (D) has expressed his satisfaction with the 4K fine levied against Comcast for broadcast of an unidentified VNR http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4133.html 2007-09-26T19:19:00-05:00 2007-09-26T19:19:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie WNYC Radio and Public Radio International (PRI) today announced that Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist John Hockenberry will host a new drive-time morning news program http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4132.html 2007-09-26T19:19:00-05:00 2007-09-26T19:19:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie Hilda Solis (D-CA) fired off a letter to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and his 8th Floor FCC colleagues requesting formation of "an independent task force http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4128.html 2007-09-26T19:19:00-05:00 2007-09-26T19:19:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie Although Don Imus was in the title of a Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection session, he was otherwise nowhere to be found in