http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-05-15T23:20:57-04:00 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6490.html 2008-03-24T15:38:00-04:00 2008-03-24T15:38:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Citizens United must continue its battle to advertise "Hillary: The Movie" in lower courts, say the Supremes. That lets stand a unanimous prior decision that http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6491.html 2008-03-24T15:39:00-04:00 2008-03-24T15:39:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Conventional wisdom has it that the continued hostilities between to remaining Democratic presidential candidates is doing Republican presumptive nominee John McCain (R-AZ) a world of http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6460.html 2008-03-23T10:28:00-04:00 2008-03-23T10:28:00-04:00 Jack Messmer Two station owners in New Mexico have been fined for operating studio-transmitter-links (STL) from unauthorized locations. In both cases, the fines resulted from failing to http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6456.html 2008-03-23T10:23:00-04:00 2008-03-23T10:23:00-04:00 Jack Messmer Dwayne Simon of Lancaster, CA admits that he was operating an unlicensed radio station out of his home in 2006 and 2007 when FCC field http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6432.html 2008-03-20T11:26:00-04:00 2008-03-20T11:26:00-04:00 Jack Messmer Was the public/private spectrum auction sabotaged by the first responders who were supposed to benefit from it? The Washington Post reports that nine consumer organizations http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6398.html 2008-03-19T16:11:00-04:00 2008-03-19T16:11:00-04:00 Jack Messmer FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is crowing that the Commission’s auction of spectrum in the 700 MHz band being vacated by analog television raised 19.592 billion http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6326.html 2008-03-16T16:41:00-04:00 2008-03-16T16:41:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Leon A. Williams of Philadelphia is the kind of person who appends "Esq." after his name, and you probably know what that means. And there's http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6315.html 2008-03-16T11:32:00-04:00 2008-03-16T11:32:00-04:00 Dave Seyler "Consolidation already has brought us to the point where two companies control 70% of market revenue in an average radio market" http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6317.html 2008-03-16T01:37:00-04:00 2008-03-16T01:37:00-04:00 Dave Seyler The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has identified 13 more spending zones, all areas in which they think freshman-wannabe challengers stand a chance of unhorsing a Republican incumbent. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5958.html 2008-03-12T23:34:00-04:00 2008-03-12T23:34:00-04:00 Dave Seyler The plan to get more women and minorities into broadcast ownership is a multi-faceted thing. In order to slip it past the courts, it approaches the issue as a small business problem. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6304.html 2008-03-14T20:51:00-04:00 2008-03-14T20:51:00-04:00 RBR/TVBR The Government Accountability Office says the FCC complaint handling process is busted -- the Commission may very well process 95% of the complaints received, but http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6302.html 2008-03-14T20:50:00-04:00 2008-03-14T20:50:00-04:00 RBR/TVBR Did you think it might have something to do with DTV? Then, as Don Rickles might say, you win a cookie! Otherwise, even though Washington http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6292.html 2008-03-14T20:40:00-04:00 2008-03-14T20:40:00-04:00 RBR/TVBR The FCC isn't the only government agency getting regular grillings on Capitol Hill. The Federal Trade Commission, which occasionally gets into broadcast issues, particularly when http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/6303.html 2008-03-14T15:50:00-04:00 2008-03-14T15:50:00-04:00 RBR/TVBR We have watched Chairman Martin take extraordinary steps to provide transparency over the past year or two. That's not to say there isn't room for improvement. Do special interests have too much access to the Commission? http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5961.html 2008-03-12T14:36:00-04:00 2008-03-12T14:36:00-04:00 Dave Seyler Both the FCC and Congress think that the time is ripe to open up third-adjacent FM channels to the new low power FM service. The