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/561.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:37:30 -0500 RCN Corporation, which provides bundled CATV, telephone and internet service in several markets, failed to meet its EEO requirements over a two year period. The http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/553.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:23:47 -0500 FCC Chairman Kevin Martin will be a panel of one when the Senate Commerce Committee sits down to discuss "The Impact of Violence on Children" http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/552.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:21:55 -0500 Although the phrase Fairness Doctrine did not come up during the course of a brief exchange between evening talker John Ziegler and Sen. James Inhofe http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/487.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:05:00 -0500 The proposed Sam Zell/ESOP acquisition of Tribune Company is pending, with a major sticking point in the form of five broadcast/newspaper cross-ownership platforms which have http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/542.html WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:08:28 -0500 The issue: The FCC's ruling to grease the wheels of telco expansion into the MVPD business. The new rules, they say, "will severely restrict the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/520.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:43:57 -0500 Keeping the heat on the children's theme this summer, the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, chaired by Ed Markey (D-MA), will be looking at http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/513.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:35:05 -0500 The House Energy & Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Health handed pharmaceutical distributors, and broadcasters, a victory yesterday, striking down a potential three-year ban on direct-to-consumer http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/506.html WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:03:50 -0500 The FCC has doubled up on KITZ Radio Inc., licensee of KGTK-AM Olympia WA and KITZ-AM Silverdale WA. It seems that when an FCC field http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/494.html WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:46:49 -0500 Ed Markey (D-MA), chair of the influential House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, was swift with his praise of Kellogg Company when it announced http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/478.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:55:00 -0500 Tuesday next, 6/26/07 at 10AM, is now on the schedule of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. And the topic is bound to http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/463.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:30:31 -0500 The Kaiser Foundation is hosting a number of luminaries today to discuss its new report, "Parents, Children & The Media: A Kaiser Family Foundation Survey." http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/453.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:21:26 -0500 The Supreme Court's newest justice, Samuel Alito, spoke before the National Italian American Foundation last week, and although he pointedly declined to offer any insight http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/440.html WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:02:55 -0500 Do you remember the Family Choice Act of 2006? Then you'll be reasonably familiar with the Family Choice Act of 2007. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) was http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/439.html WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:01:45 -0500 Actually, the FM bandit was working out of a garage, or rather, he claims his tenants were. The upshot is that an organization identified by http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/430.html WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:53:46 -0500 Do you remember the Family Choice Act of 2006? Then you'll be reasonably familiar with the Family Choice Act of 2007. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) was http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/399.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:24:29 -0500 The Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Health is looking over a multi-pronged bill concerning health in the US. Among the items being considered is http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/383.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:08:37 -0500 Tavis Smiley will be the moderator later this month with the eight announced candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination face off in yet another debate. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/360.html WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:43:45 -0500 The Senate Judiciary Committee will go into session Thursday, 6/14/07, to discuss the ongoing proposal to add a federal reporters shield to the many such http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/326.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:38:00 -0500 Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) felt he was the victim of deceptive advertising during his 2006 campaign to upgrade his Capitol Hill office from the House http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/309.html WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:23:59 -0500 A bill advancing through the House of Representatives would put a three year ban on advertisements for new drugs, and an association of associations (along