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/2221.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:41:00 -0600 Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein (D) has agreed to meet with Urban radio professionals at the I Rock the Mic Conference and Awards session held in Miami http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2217.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:41:00 -0600 Numerous commentators have addressed the need for beefed up FCC regulation to assure that disabled and non-English-speaking individuals receive adequate notice of emergency situations via http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2209.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:22:00 -0600 Spurred by Senate anti-consolidation point man Byron Dorgan (D-ND), the Senate Commerce Committee is planning a session of media ownership and localism this Thursday, 11/8/07. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2208.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:22:00 -0600 Watchdog groups are incensed that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin intends to hold its final forum on media ownership in Seattle WA with only a week's http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2187.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:00:00 -0600 The two-party presidential campaign of Comedy Central personality Stephen Colbert has been derailed. His plan was to run in one primary state, his native South http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2179.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:45:00 -0600 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/2178.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:45:00 -0600 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 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2177.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:45:00 -0600 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/2142.html WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:06:00 -0500 The FCC has no business levying fines on Comcast news service CN8 for running video news releases on its cable network, says the Radio-Television News http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2140.html WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:06:00 -0500 An impressively bipartisan House Concurrent Resolution 244 has been introduced into the record by a pair of Texans representing both major parties, Gene Green (D-TX) http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2123.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:33:00 -0500 When the FCFC established "rules and guidance" to prohibit local franchise authorities "from unreasonably refusing to award competitive franchises for the provision of cable services," http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/2115.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:21:00 -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 01:21:00 -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 09:54:00 -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 09:43:00 -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 09:43:00 -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 09:43:00 -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 08:52:00 -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 20:15:00 -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 07:41:00 -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