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/6894.html WASHINGTON BEAT Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:37:00 -0500 The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression has an award you don't necessarily want to win. The 2008 Jefferson Muzzle awards went http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6889.html WASHINGTON BEAT Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:33:00 -0500 It is no secret that women and minorities are vastly underrepresented in the ranks of broadcast ownership compared to their percentage of the overall population. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/senate_battlegrounds_handicapped.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:14:00 -0500 The good news for Republicans is that at this point, about seven months out before Election Day, only one of ten competitive Senate seats is http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6852.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:39:00 -0500 Even though FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's agency has been hitting members of the Consumer Electronics Association with fines and consent decrees, the organization is generally http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6848.html WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:36:00 -0500 Today's FCC's April Open Meeting didn't include anything of direct interest to broadcasters, but its postponement may have put off news of adverse finding for America's electronics manufacturers and retailers. But no such luck -- the FCC went ahead and levied over 6M worth of penalties anyway. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6847.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:35:00 -0500 The good news for Republicans is that at this point, about seven months out before Election Day, only one of ten competitive Senate seats is starting to look like a lost cause. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6824.html WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:43:00 -0500 Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is famously against allowing the electronic media to invade the sanctity of his place of business. And he is famously http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6801.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:42:00 -0500 Senators routinely urged FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and outgoing NTIA head Meredith Atwell Baker to table all other concerns for the duration of the run-up http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6794.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:34:00 -0500 House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) would much prefer the title Speaker of the House, but at the moment a sizable deficit in sitting Republicans http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6796.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:39:00 -0500 Would be wireless innovators have run into a little problem: Their headlong assault on television spectrum keeps tripping over its own testing. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6760.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:59:00 -0500 If Barack Obama (D-IL) is elected president this November, that will open up a seat in the US Senate for some lucky Illinois Democrat who http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6756.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:56:00 -0500 Candidates for Congress have outdone themselves when it comes to off-year fundraising for the 2008 elections. The totals amount collected during the set-up year of http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6748.html WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:34:00 -0500 And it will also be teeing up FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and Meredith Attwell Baker, the Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Communications and Information, NTIA, http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6742.html WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:30:00 -0500 The indecency case against Fox regarding its 2003 broadcast of "Married by America," and its creative usage of whipped cream, has led the network to http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6741.html WASHINGTON BEAT Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:29:00 -0500 The five FCC commissioners will convene the April Open Meeting next Thursday, 4/10/08, and the Sunshine Notice agenda is remarkably free of issues directly concerning the holders of television or radio licenses. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6714.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:19:00 -0500 Senators have about three extra weeks to consider Byron Dorgan's (D-ND) Resolution of Disapproval, after its original mark-up session was postponed earlier this week. They http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6662.html WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:23:00 -0500 The FCC Enforcement Bureau is said to be in negotiation with wedding partner wannabes XM and Sirius, according to a report in Communications Daily. At http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6659.html WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:22:00 -0500 Yesterday Byron Dorgan (D-ND) was supposed to see which way his colleagues' thumbs would be pointing on his Resolution of Disapproval, which would have prevented http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6637.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:30:00 -0500 Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) actually retired from the Senate once upon a time, but was tapped as a pinch-hitter for a trouble Democrat back in 2002 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6635.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:28:00 -0500 The ink is barely dry on NAB's lawsuit attacking the FCC's new enhanced programming disclosure requirements, but already BroadView Software Inc. has a program to unveil at NAB2008 which it says will largely handle the reports.