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/2115.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:21:00 -0500 FCC Democrats Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein are treating the upcoming court-ordered review of media ownership rules with extreme skepticism. Republican Deborah Taylor Tate, on http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2114.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:21:00 -0500 NAB's Marcellus Alexander pointed out at yesterday's FCC Localism Forum that broadcasters cater to their local audience or they go out of business. Eleven other http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2088.html WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:54:00 -0600 A wide range of testifiers have been tapped for the 6th and final public forum on media ownership, running from 4PM-11PM Pacific time in Seattle http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2082.html WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:43:00 -0600 Democrats are looking at their slate of candidates with their minds, while Republicans are using their hearts to make a determination among their options. So http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2081.html WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:43:00 -0600 John Lavine, Dean, Medill School at Northwestern University, was the only witness at yesterday's Commerce Committee hearing who offered anything resembling a life preserver for http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2080.html WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:43:00 -0600 If anyone had any doubt about who is driving the anti-consolidation bus in the US Senate, Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-HI) pretty much put http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2057.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:52:00 -0600 The FTC has entered into settlements with six companies over violations of the National Do Not Call Registry resulting in a whopping 7.7M in civil http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2045.html WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:15:00 -0600 "Industry, Non-Profits, and Academia to Testify at Media Ownership Hearing." That's the headline from the Senate Commerce Committee advertising today's session on "Localism, Diversity and http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2024.html WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:41:00 -0600 Jairo Diaz is getting hit with a pair of FCC fines for buccaneer behavior on the low end of the FM dial. Diaz was operating http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2014.html WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:13:00 -0600 Free Press representatives testified at the Washington DC localism forum, dropping what Commissioner Michael Copps called a bombshell - saying that the FCC's own research http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2013.html WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:13:00 -0600 Byron Dorgan's (D-ND) "Media Ownership Act of 2007" is officially on paper, and it's taken on three more co-sponsors. The first thing the bill would http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1990.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:19:00 -0600 There has been some speculation that Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) would call it quits when his fourth term expires next year, but it can now http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1982.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:56:00 -0600 If anybody out there thinks FCC Chairman Kevin Martin got it exactly right with his proposal for a limited rollback of cross-ownership restrictions, they don't http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1954.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:41:00 -0600 "The Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has put forward what I'm sure he regards as a reasonable compromise on the issue of media http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1953.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:41:00 -0600 Democratic Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein aren't buying it. They say that the top 20 markets contain 43% of the US population, exposing that http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1952.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:41:00 -0600 Watchdogs have been howling at the moon for about a month now, in preparation for the nefarious plans of FCC Chairman Kevin (R) to gift-wrap http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1950.html WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:41:00 -0600 Music talents Lyle Lovett and Alice Peacock held forth before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the topic of performance royalties, better known to broadcasters as http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1930.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:25:00 -0600 The Senate Judiciary Committee is looking into the issue of performance fees for music receiving airplay, which would overturn a mutually-beneficial relationship enjoyed by the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1928.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:22:00 -0600 There is a provision in the Cable Act of 1984 that opens the door to reregulating the cable industry when it becomes available to 70% http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1871.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:27:00 -0600 House Energy & Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell addressed his concerns about "an apparent breakdown" of procedure at the FCC with a five-question quiz for http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1866.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:22:00 -0600 Without a solid definition of the type of companies which would stand to benefit from regulatory measure to increase diversity, MMTC has asked the FCC http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1865.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:21:00 -0600 Numerous elements of the 2006 Quadrennial Regulatory Review and other dockets, scrubbed from the FCC's November Open Meeting, are back on the agenda for the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1857.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:52:00 -0500 A few legislators here and there have brought the idea of reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, but no real effort has been made to do so. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1848.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:32:00 -0500 The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is kicking off its 500-day countdown to the DTV transition, and gearing up for its digital-to-analog converter box distribution http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1842.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:26:00 -0500 The National Association of Broadcasters concurs with the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council that efforts should be made to boost the number of female and