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/6714.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:19:00 -0400 Senators have about three extra weeks to consider Byron Dorgan's (D-ND) Resolution of Disapproval, after its original mark-up session was postponed earlier this week. They http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6662.html WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:23:00 -0400 The FCC Enforcement Bureau is said to be in negotiation with wedding partner wannabes XM and Sirius, according to a report in Communications Daily. At http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6659.html WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:22:00 -0400 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:30:00 -0400 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:28:00 -0400 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:38:00 -0400 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:31:00 -0400 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:29:00 -0400 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:27:00 -0400 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:19:00 -0400 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:23:00 -0400 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:46:00 -0400 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:46:00 -0400 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:48:00 -0400 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 WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:23:00 -0400 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 Radio News | Television News | Cable | Broadcasting | FCC | RBR | TVBR |