http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-05-16T01:11:48-04:00 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. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/senate_battlegrounds_handicapped.html 2008-04-10T11:14:00-04:00 2008-04-10T11:14:00-04:00 RBR/TVBR The good news for Republicans is that at this point, about seven months out before Election Day, only one of ten competitive Senate seats is http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6852.html 2008-04-10T15:39:00-04:00 2008-04-10T15:39:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Even though FCC Chairman Kevin Martin's agency has been hitting members of the Consumer Electronics Association with fines and consent decrees, the organization is generally http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6848.html 2008-04-10T05:36:00-04:00 2008-04-10T05:36:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Today's FCC's April Open Meeting didn't include anything of direct interest to broadcasters, but its postponement may have put off news of adverse finding for America's electronics manufacturers and retailers. But no such luck -- the FCC went ahead and levied over 6M worth of penalties anyway. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6847.html 2008-04-10T10:35:00-04:00 2008-04-10T10:35:00-04:00 Dave Seyler The good news for Republicans is that at this point, about seven months out before Election Day, only one of ten competitive Senate seats is starting to look like a lost cause. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6824.html 2008-04-09T15:43:00-04:00 2008-04-09T15:43:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is famously against allowing the electronic media to invade the sanctity of his place of business. And he is famously http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6801.html 2008-04-08T15:42:00-04:00 2008-04-08T15:42:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Senators routinely urged FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and outgoing NTIA head Meredith Atwell Baker to table all other concerns for the duration of the run-up http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6794.html 2008-04-08T15:34:00-04:00 2008-04-08T15:34:00-04:00 Dave Seyler House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) would much prefer the title Speaker of the House, but at the moment a sizable deficit in sitting Republicans http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6796.html 2008-04-08T10:39:00-04:00 2008-04-08T10:39:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Would be wireless innovators have run into a little problem: Their headlong assault on television spectrum keeps tripping over its own testing. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6760.html 2008-04-07T14:59:00-04:00 2008-04-07T14:59:00-04:00 Dave Seyler If Barack Obama (D-IL) is elected president this November, that will open up a seat in the US Senate for some lucky Illinois Democrat who http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6756.html 2008-04-07T14:56:00-04:00 2008-04-07T14:56:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Candidates for Congress have outdone themselves when it comes to off-year fundraising for the 2008 elections. The totals amount collected during the set-up year of http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6748.html 2008-04-04T15:34:00-04:00 2008-04-04T15:34:00-04:00 Dave Seyler And it will also be teeing up FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and Meredith Attwell Baker, the Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Communications and Information, NTIA, http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6742.html 2008-04-04T15:30:00-04:00 2008-04-04T15:30:00-04:00 Dave Seyler The indecency case against Fox regarding its 2003 broadcast of "Married by America," and its creative usage of whipped cream, has led the network to http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6741.html 2008-04-06T19:29:00-04:00 2008-04-06T19:29:00-04:00 Dave Seyler The five FCC commissioners will convene the April Open Meeting next Thursday, 4/10/08, and the Sunshine Notice agenda is remarkably free of issues directly concerning the holders of television or radio licenses.