http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-05-15T23:20:09-04:00 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6659.html 2008-04-02T10:22:00-04:00 2008-04-02T10:22:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Yesterday Byron Dorgan (D-ND) was supposed to see which way his colleagues' thumbs would be pointing on his Resolution of Disapproval, which would have prevented http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6637.html 2008-04-01T13:30:00-04:00 2008-04-01T13:30:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) actually retired from the Senate once upon a time, but was tapped as a pinch-hitter for a trouble Democrat back in 2002 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6635.html 2008-04-01T22:28:00-04:00 2008-04-01T22:28:00-04:00 Dave Seyler The ink is barely dry on NAB's lawsuit attacking the FCC's new enhanced programming disclosure requirements, but already BroadView Software Inc. has a program to unveil at NAB2008 which it says will largely handle the reports. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6610.html 2008-03-31T15:38:00-04:00 2008-03-31T15:38:00-04:00 Dave Seyler If it can't be tested successfully, should it nevertheless be unleashed license-free into the wide open market? That's what the NAB is wondering after yet http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6605.html 2008-03-31T15:31:00-04:00 2008-03-31T15:31:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Despite the fact that it just ushered XM/Sirius one step closer to the altar in their 5B attempt to exchange wedding vows, the Department of http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6584.html 2008-03-28T15:29:00-04:00 2008-03-28T15:29:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Generally, when the FCC and a licensee enter into a consent decree, at dispute is a matter that is both serious and often in a http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6580.html 2008-03-28T10:27:00-04:00 2008-03-28T10:27:00-04:00 Dave Seyler If the FCC will not have the force of law to strip such a programmer of its license, what's the point of wasting everybody's time, and the taxpayers' money, collecting a meaningless mountain of data? http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6567.html 2008-03-27T15:19:00-04:00 2008-03-27T15:19:00-04:00 Dave Seyler The Senate Commerce Committee has included "S.J. Res. 28, A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to broadcast http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6571.html 2008-03-27T15:23:00-04:00 2008-03-27T15:23:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Federal Trade Commission Chair Deborah Platt Majoras has confirmed that her previously announced exit will take place as planned, effective 3/30/08. In making that announcement, http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6539.html 2008-03-26T15:46:00-04:00 2008-03-26T15:46:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Entravision Holdings' Brownsville-McAllen TX radio group, which includes KFRQ-FM Harlingen, KNVO-FM Port Isabel, KVLY-FM Edinburg and KKPS-FM Brownsville, has been hit with an admonishment for http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6538.html 2008-03-26T15:46:00-04:00 2008-03-26T15:46:00-04:00 Dave Seyler The American Antitrust Institute is "alarmed" that the Department of Justice lowered its standards to allow the merger of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6543.html 2008-03-26T10:48:00-04:00 2008-03-26T10:48:00-04:00 Dave Seyler WJZD Inc. objected to the license renewals of Clear Channel stations in southern Mississippi; in particular, for WMJY-FM Biloxi, WKNN-FM Pascagoula and WBUV-FM Moss Point. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6513.html 2008-03-25T15:23:00-04:00 2008-03-25T15:23:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Internet firms are still trying to get permission to operate unlicensed devices in the spectrum cracks between broadcast television stations, and the NAB is still http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6511.html 2008-03-25T15:22:00-04:00 2008-03-25T15:22:00-04:00 Dave Seyler The 583M acquisition of three television stations by Raycom from Lincoln Financial Company filed last November was not without complications. The deal, which included WBTV-TV http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6493.html 2008-03-24T15:40:00-04:00 2008-03-24T15:40:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Fox Television/News Corporation is refusing to pay a 91K FCC fine levied for the airing of pixilated nudity on a briefly-aired 2003 reality show called