http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-10-07T20:43:35-05:00 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3048.html 2007-10-26T11:23:00-05:00 2007-10-26T11:23:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie The Second Circuit ruled in favor of programmers when it considered FCC fines over the utterance of fleeting expletives, including the f-bomb, on live television. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3047.html 2007-10-26T11:23:00-05:00 2007-10-26T11:23:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie The FCC's October Open Meeting will include the final localism forum in the set begun way back under former Chairman Michael Powell. It will follow http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3037.html 2007-10-29T23:23:00-05:00 2007-10-29T23:23:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie NAB's Dennis Wharton got off a good one in Congressional daily "The Hill," which was reporting on the strange bedfellows joining in opposition to the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3029.html 2007-10-29T23:23:00-05:00 2007-10-29T23:23:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie If your AM station is operating with special pre-sunrise (PSRA) and post-sunset (PSSA) authority, the FCC has fired off a reminder that the new extension http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3024.html 2007-10-29T22:50:00-05:00 2007-10-29T22:50:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie If you thought, as many on Wall Street apparently did, that a federal judge's refusal to block the acquisition of Wild Oats by Whole Foods http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/3022.html 2007-10-29T22:50:00-05:00 2007-10-29T22:50:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie Most of the commentary on FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's plans to bring media ownership rules up for a December vote has been severely negative, not http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2995.html 2007-10-30T22:21:00-05:00 2007-10-30T22:21:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie A heaping healthy portion of the watchdog community is located in Washington DC, just like the FCC, and they are planning to have a presence http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2991.html 2007-10-30T22:21:00-05:00 2007-10-30T22:21:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie The Project for Excellence in Journalism, along with the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and the Pew Research Center for http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2990.html 2007-10-30T22:21:00-05:00 2007-10-30T22:21:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie Presidential candidate John Edwards (D-NC) believes that advertising is one of the reasons the cost of pharmaceuticals is rising so quickly, and is calling for http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2989.html 2007-10-30T22:21:00-05:00 2007-10-30T22:21:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) have reached across the aisle in the past to promote the concept of network neutrality. Concerns about cable http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2984.html 2007-10-31T21:02:00-05:00 2007-10-31T21:02:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie Hearst-Argyle's David Barrett; Dennis Swanson from Fox Television Stations; and Univision CEO Joe Uva will be joining other stakeholders in yet another Congressional oversight hearing http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2966.html 2007-10-31T21:02:00-05:00 2007-10-31T21:02:00-05:00 Jim Carnegie The Senate Commerce Committee yesterday considered S.1675 Local Community Radio Act of 2007 in a mark-up session. We use the term "considered" loosely, since on http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2951.html 2007-11-30T23:51:00-06:00 2007-11-30T23:51:00-06:00 Jim Carnegie FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has the cable industry in his cross-hairs, with items such as imposing a national subscriber cap, limiting the amount of self-produced http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2944.html 2007-11-30T23:51:00-06:00 2007-11-30T23:51:00-06:00 Jim Carnegie A Republican Congress kept Ed Markey (D-MA) and colleagues in the Senate from making headway in making the concept of digital network neutrality a matter http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2932.html 2007-11-29T09:31:00-06:00 2007-11-29T09:31:00-06:00 Jim Carnegie Broadcast television stations will have to begin posting their public file on their website (or possibly on a state broadcasters association site), using a newly-standardized http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2924.html 2007-11-29T09:31:00-06:00 2007-11-29T09:31:00-06:00 Jim Carnegie The five commissioners have a potentially explosive Open Meeting on the calendar for 12/18/07, and a standing invitation to visit the Senate Commerce Committee in http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2917.html 2007-11-29T09:31:00-06:00 2007-11-29T09:31:00-06:00 Jim Carnegie The November Open Meeting of the FCC was a landmark for proponents of community-based LPFM. The Commission adopted rules to immediately boost the service and http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2916.html 2007-11-29T09:31:00-06:00 2007-11-29T09:31:00-06:00 Jim Carnegie FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said he will ask for a vote this Friday which would grant waivers to Tribune to keep its cross-owned properties intact http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2898.html 2007-10-18T08:59:00-05:00 2007-10-18T08:59:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie Another round of fines has been announced, headed for consumer electronics outlets which were caught selling analog-only television gear without the now-requisite consumer alert. A http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2897.html 2007-10-18T08:57:00-05:00 2007-10-18T08:57:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie It wasn't even close. The Federal Press Shield Law was passed by the House of Representatives by a 398-21 margin, getting an even higher percentage http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2890.html 2007-11-28T23:00:00-06:00 2007-11-28T23:00:00-06:00 Jim Carnegie The Senate Commerce Committee has just put an item on the calendar for all five FCC Commissioners. It has scheduled an oversight hearing for 12/13/07 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2887.html 2007-11-28T23:00:00-06:00 2007-11-28T23:00:00-06:00 Jim Carnegie We expected that the big item on the planned discussion of media ownership rules at the FCC would not include discussion of Chairman Kevin Martin's http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2884.html 2007-11-28T23:00:00-06:00 2007-11-28T23:00:00-06:00 Jim Carnegie The Parents Television Council is not at all happy that the FCC ducked the indecency issue and CBS got off with "a slap on the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2881.html 2007-10-18T08:50:00-05:00 2007-10-18T08:50:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie Mike Pence (R-IN) was able to get a bill through Congress earlier keeping reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine off the table for a year, but http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2876.html 2007-11-28T23:00:00-06:00 2007-11-28T23:00:00-06:00 Jim Carnegie A 12/4/07 FCC session to make sure minorities aren't left behind during the DTV transition is coming into shape. The event will consume the morning