http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-07-09T00:36:46-05:00 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 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4116.html 2007-09-25T19:19:00-05:00 2007-09-25T19:19:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie One hearing on DTV won't cut it for John Dingell (D-MI), chairman of the influential House Committee on Energy and Commerce. On 10/17/07, he's hauling http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4106.html 2007-09-25T07:19:00-05:00 2007-09-25T07:19:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie While the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) takes over Charlotte NC this week, the National Association of Black-Owned Broadcasters (NABOB) will have Washington DC to http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4043.html 2007-08-08T13:45:00-05:00 2007-08-08T13:45:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie The United Church of Christ is an experienced hand when it comes to dealing with media matters in general and the FCC in particular. It http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4034.html 2007-09-21T13:35:00-05:00 2007-09-21T13:35:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie Washington is exhibiting signs of heightened anxiety over the upcoming DTV transition almost every day lately. With any luck, the FCC will be able to http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4025.html 2007-09-21T13:35:00-05:00 2007-09-21T13:35:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill permitting the Food and Drug Administration to collect cash from users seeking drug approval and increases the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/4003.html 2007-08-07T12:58:00-05:00 2007-08-07T12:58:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie Today. After holding meetings the past few months at just about the last possible minute, Chairman Kevin Martin is getting the monthly chore out of http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3987.html 2007-08-06T12:22:00-05:00 2007-08-06T12:22:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie No, the Senate Commerce Committee is not looking for snack food to take with it on its August recess. Mark Pryor (D-AR) believes that there