http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-09-05T08:13:38-05:00 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1511.html 2007-11-10T20:20:00-06:00 2007-11-10T20:20:00-06:00 RBR/TVBR The echoes from the last speaker at the FCC forum on localism in Washington had just barely died away, and already the Senate Commerce Committee http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1453.html 2007-08-14T07:07:06-05:00 2007-08-14T07:07:06-05:00 SmartMediaToday Fred Thompson hasn't entered the Republican presidential primary sweepstakes yet, but there was a Thompson in the mix. That is no longer the case after http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1442.html 2007-08-14T06:57:34-05:00 2007-08-14T06:57:34-05:00 SmartMediaToday Broadcast television is about a year and a half away from becoming a digital only service. At the same time, the FCC is being pressured http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1437.html 2007-08-14T06:51:23-05:00 2007-08-14T06:51:23-05:00 SmartMediaToday Republican candidates were balking at following their Democratic counterparts into a debate format in which CNN asked questions submitted by citizens via YouTube. The 9/17/07 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1436.html 2007-08-14T06:50:29-05:00 2007-08-14T06:50:29-05:00 SmartMediaToday Food manufacturers and media outlets have been under pressure to watch the waistlines of the preteen set all year. Kellogg's announced its intention to limit http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1411.html 2007-08-14T06:24:00-05:00 2007-08-14T06:24:00-05:00 SmartMediaToday The FCC says a number of interested parties think there should be a limit to how many CPs one entity tries for in the upcoming http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1419.html 2007-08-13T06:32:59-05:00 2007-08-13T06:32:59-05:00 SmartMediaToday The Republican Party has moved its presidential primary up to 1/19/08, a move which puts it at odds with New Hampshire state law and may http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1417.html 2007-08-13T06:30:11-05:00 2007-08-13T06:30:11-05:00 SmartMediaToday As a direct result of a 7/31/07 FTC action known as "Resolution Directing Use of Compulsory Process to Collect Information for Use in Preparing a http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1358.html 2007-08-09T14:18:01-05:00 2007-08-09T14:18:01-05:00 SmartMediaToday How do you fill a 3,600 hour programming hole? NBC may be looking at just that situation, as well as scrambling to make up associated http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1325.html 2007-08-08T12:44:44-05:00 2007-08-08T12:44:44-05:00 SmartMediaToday Netroots bloggers met with Democratic presidential candidates in Chicago over the weekend at the YearlyKos Convention, and one of the things that came up was http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1303.html 2007-08-07T12:17:04-05:00 2007-08-07T12:17:04-05:00 SmartMediaToday The presidential campaign season seems to have expanded to fill all of the time between Election Day completed and Election Day on the horizon. Prospective http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1276.html 2007-08-06T15:07:30-05:00 2007-08-06T15:07:30-05:00 SmartMediaToday 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 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1264.html 2007-08-03T12:59:13-05:00 2007-08-03T12:59:13-05:00 SmartMediaToday 32 states and the District of Columbia have laws on the books which protect the right of a reporter to in turn protect the identity http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1220.html 2007-08-02T13:14:00-05:00 2007-08-02T13:14:00-05:00 SmartMediaToday That didn't take long. Ten FCC ownership studies had barely seen the light of day before Commissioners Michael Copps (D) and Jonathan Adelstein (D) began http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1213.html 2007-08-01T13:05:00-05:00 2007-08-01T13:05:00-05:00 SmartMediaToday Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Stevens (R-AK) is enduring another chapter in the ongoing investigation of his dealings with certain constituents back in Alaska. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1205.html 2007-08-01T12:52:00-05:00 2007-08-01T12:52:00-05:00 SmartMediaToday At the behest of powerful legislators John Dingell (D-MI) and Ed Markey (D-MA), the FCC is looking into how stakeholders can get out the word http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1171.html 2007-07-31T12:56:20-05:00 2007-07-31T12:56:20-05:00 SmartMediaToday The NAB calls royalties for airplay a performance tax. Howard Berman's (D-CA) Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property is taking up the topic http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1170.html 2007-07-31T12:55:23-05:00 2007-07-31T12:55:23-05:00 SmartMediaToday Mark Pryor (D-AR) has an item on Thursday's Senate Commerce Committee executive session which instructs the FCC to begin a rulemaking on blocking technologies. S. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1145.html 2007-07-30T10:35:20-05:00 2007-07-30T10:35:20-05:00 SmartMediaToday The Townhall.com Presidential Straw Poll will be held 8/31/07 at the Fort Worth Convention Center. It's a collaboration of the Republican Party of Texas, Townhall.com http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1144.html 2007-07-30T10:34:40-05:00 2007-07-30T10:34:40-05:00 SmartMediaToday CNN and YouTube recently hosted a ground-breaking South Carolina debate featuring all eight Democratic presidential candidates taking questions directly from potential voters. A similar format http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1143.html 2007-07-30T10:34:10-05:00 2007-07-30T10:34:10-05:00 SmartMediaToday Mike Pence (R-IN) successfully managed to get a provision through the House of Representatives that would prevent the Department of Justice from pursuing criminal enforcement http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1102.html 2007-07-26T10:33:49-05:00 2007-07-26T10:33:49-05:00 SmartMediaToday The five FCC Commissioners, who just visited the House side of Capitol Hill yesterday, will get a break from the Senate at today's DTV hearing, http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1033.html 2007-07-25T13:22:39-05:00 2007-07-25T13:22:39-05:00 SmartMediaToday The broadcast community received a little bit of attention in yesterday's House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet session with the five FCC commissioners. The http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1067.html 2007-07-24T09:44:16-05:00 2007-07-24T09:44:16-05:00 SmartMediaToday As expected, everybody on the guest list for the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet will have something in common: an office on the 8th http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1091.html 2007-07-23T10:22:47-05:00 2007-07-23T10:22:47-05:00 SmartMediaToday The Supreme Court ruled last month that corporations and unions have wide discretion in the funding and airing of issue-oriented advertising. "Where the First Amendment