http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-05-15T23:21:53-04:00 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/7069.html 2008-04-22T15:40:00-04:00 2008-04-22T15:40:00-04:00 Dave Seyler FCC Chairman Kevin Martin outlined broad policies which he believe the FCC must keep in mind when considering internet service providers and their customers. The http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/7054.html 2008-04-21T15:30:00-04:00 2008-04-21T15:30:00-04:00 Dave Seyler It is well known that the Bush administration has an antipathy toward information leakers, and is firmly against enactment of a federal shield for reporter http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/7011.html 2008-04-18T14:20:00-04:00 2008-04-18T14:20:00-04:00 Dave Seyler A bipartisan and ideologically diverse quarter of US Reps is urging Senate Majority and Minority leaders, Harry Reid (D-NV) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY), respectively, to http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/7007.html 2008-04-18T04:17:00-04:00 2008-04-18T04:17:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Byron Dorgan (D-ND) will finally begin to put his reprise of the Resolution of Disapproval up for a committee vote on Thursday 4/24/08. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/7008.html 2008-04-18T04:18:00-04:00 2008-04-18T04:18:00-04:00 Dave Seyler The prospect of even more paperwork is apparently in the works at the FCC, and the attorneys at Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC are sounding an alarm. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6995.html 2008-04-17T15:41:00-04:00 2008-04-17T15:41:00-04:00 Dave Seyler JC Watts, who used to go around with (R-OK) after his name as a member of the Oklahoma delegation to the House of Representatives, is http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6992.html 2008-04-17T15:40:00-04:00 2008-04-17T15:40:00-04:00 Dave Seyler The National Association of Broadcasters is not just encouraging stations to super-serve their local communities. It's offering a central location to plan and execute community http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6990.html 2008-04-18T00:38:00-04:00 2008-04-18T00:38:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is all for broadcast localism. She just doesn't believe that the way to achieve this "laudable goal" is to bury broadcasters http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6964.html 2008-04-16T15:45:00-04:00 2008-04-16T15:45:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Both houses of Congress have been doing just about everything but passing a federal shield law that would guarantee the right of reporters to protect http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6960.html 2008-04-16T05:42:00-04:00 2008-04-16T05:42:00-04:00 Dave Seyler The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is wondering why an electronic identifier on a political ad points to its rival National Republican Congressional Committee, and it's http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6942.html 2008-04-15T10:51:00-04:00 2008-04-15T10:51:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Conventional wisdom has presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain (R-AZ) looking for issues where he can put some political daylight between himself and President George http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6934.html 2008-04-15T15:48:00-04:00 2008-04-15T15:48:00-04:00 Dave Seyler The FCC's 12/18/07 proposal to increase reporting requirements and record-keeping at broadcast stations with an eye to improving local service is usually considered inside baseball http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6922.html 2008-04-14T16:06:00-04:00 2008-04-14T16:06:00-04:00 Dave Seyler The House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet is hosting all five FCC Commissioners today (and preventing their appearance at an NAB breakfast). The good http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6894.html 2008-04-13T09:37:00-04:00 2008-04-13T09:37:00-04:00 Dave Seyler The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression has an award you don't necessarily want to win. The 2008 Jefferson Muzzle awards went http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6889.html 2008-04-13T09:33:00-04:00 2008-04-13T09:33:00-04:00 Dave Seyler It is no secret that women and minorities are vastly underrepresented in the ranks of broadcast ownership compared to their percentage of the overall population.