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Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-09-07T06:52:37-05:00 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1752.html 2007-10-02T14:55:00-05:00 2007-10-02T14:55:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie The plans of noncommercial CSN International to construct CP WWTS-FM in Logansport IN fell apart when less than a month before the construction deadline, it http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1745.html 2007-10-02T14:37:00-05:00 2007-10-02T14:37:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie The FCC did its ten-study data dump on media ownership 7/31/07 and immediately asked for public comment by 10/1/07, with reply comments due two weeks http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1722.html 2007-12-11T20:00:00-06:00 2007-12-11T20:00:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Internet search guide Google says it has devices which can operate in the margins between television stations without interfering with licensed spectrum users, and says http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1702.html 2007-12-10T03:01:00-06:00 2007-12-10T03:01:00-06:00 Dave Seyler FCC Chairman Kevin Martin already has pending legislation in the Senate which would slow down his plans to ease restrictions on cross-ownership of print and http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1698.html 2007-12-10T03:01:00-06:00 2007-12-10T03:01:00-06:00 Dave Seyler The big event in Washington last week was the visit paid by all five FCC Commissioners to Ed Markey's Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1656.html 2007-12-07T08:37:00-06:00 2007-12-07T08:37:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Engineer Robert E. Lee has replied to MSTV opposition to a proposal to reallocate spectrum currently used for television Channel 6 and use it instead http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1654.html 2007-12-07T08:35:00-06:00 2007-12-07T08:35:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Stevens (R-AK) is trying to get  an anti-indecency measure passed out of committee over the summer down to the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1652.html 2007-12-07T08:29:00-06:00 2007-12-07T08:29:00-06:00 Dave Seyler FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and the two other Republicans outvoted two Democratic commissioners, granting Tribune Company cross-ownership waivers of two years extendible to six months http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1639.html 2007-10-01T12:51:00-05:00 2007-10-01T12:51:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie Sinclair's Fox WZTV-TV 17 Nashville TN and Nexstar's Fox WTVW-TV Evansville IN have both been hit with hefty fines for going over the commercial limit http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1631.html 2007-10-01T05:59:00-05:00 2007-10-01T05:59:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie FCC Commissioner Michael Copps (D) says there are five steps that must me taken before serious the FCC can consider further loosening ownership rules. Among http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1630.html 2007-09-30T23:58:00-05:00 2007-09-30T23:58:00-05:00 Cathy Carnegie Clear Channel Communications and Citadel Broadcasting have conducted seminars with the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC) and NAB Education Foundation to ensure that minority http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1593.html 2007-12-06T08:29:00-06:00 2007-12-06T08:29:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Clear Channel EVP/Chief Legal Officer Andrew Levin told the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet that the decision to loosen local radio ownership caps http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1591.html 2007-12-06T08:28:00-06:00 2007-12-06T08:28:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Here's a selection of items of interest that came up under Congressional questioning of the five FCC Commissioners.* Martin said that drawing the cross-ownership line http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1590.html 2007-12-06T08:26:00-06:00 2007-12-06T08:26:00-06:00 Dave Seyler FCC Chairman Kevin Martin (R) remains convinced that his plan to eliminate cross-ownership restrictions in the top 20 markets, with no further deregulatory proposals is http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1589.html 2007-12-06T08:25:00-06:00 2007-12-06T08:25:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Anybody expecting major fireworks from yesterday's FCC oversight hearing at the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet was in for a disappointment. However, differences http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1585.html 2007-12-06T08:22:00-06:00 2007-12-06T08:22:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Mullaney Engineering and others have proposed taking advantage of the DTV transition and the repurposing of a swathe of television spectrum to relieve pressure on http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1581.html 2007-12-06T08:19:00-06:00 2007-12-06T08:19:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Winter is slowly starting to take hold in Washington DC, but for FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, it's the heat, not the cold, that is intensifying. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1580.html 2007-12-06T08:18:00-06:00 2007-12-06T08:18:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Time is winding down for Congress in 2007, but Dan Inouye (D-HI) has promised to try to get the Byron Dorgan (D-ND)/Trent Lott (R-MS) Media http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1551.html 2007-12-04T08:35:00-06:00 2007-12-04T08:35:00-06:00 Dave Seyler The White House has decided to put Jonathan Adelstein's name back before the Senate for another go-around at the FCC. A former staffer of former http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1549.html 2007-12-04T08:34:00-06:00 2007-12-04T08:34:00-06:00 Dave Seyler As expected, all five FCC Commissioners have an invite to the oversight hearing pegged for the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet this Wednesday morning. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1543.html 2007-12-03T09:32:00-06:00 2007-12-03T09:32:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Advertisers are increasingly trying to weave their products into the sets and storylines of broadcast entertainment, to combat ad skipping via channel surfing and DVR-enabled http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1537.html 2007-12-03T09:24:00-06:00 2007-12-03T09:24:00-06:00 Dave Seyler Were you stranded on a tropical island last week? Lucky dog -- we should be so lucky. But no, we were here staying on top http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1517.html 2007-11-10T14:26:00-06:00 2007-11-10T14:26:00-06:00 RBR/TVBR Ad money is flowing in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, and with most states bunched up toward the front of the primary line, http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1513.html 2007-11-11T02:22:00-06:00 2007-11-11T02:22:00-06:00 RBR/TVBR We don't know if the Supreme Court will agree to hear an FCC appeal of the Second Circuit court ruling in favor of Fox Broadcasting http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1512.html 2007-11-10T14:21:00-06:00 2007-11-10T14:21:00-06:00 RBR/TVBR The FCC announced late Friday that a hearing on localism would be conducted just one week hence in Seattle, as Chairman Kevin Martin (R) tries