http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Vivvo CMS 4.0 2008-05-16T00:34:38-04:00 http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5843.html 2008-03-05T21:50:00-05:00 2008-03-05T21:50:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Some might argue that there is no further cutting of costs possible, if increasing revenues is the goal (although that obviously is not stopping Farid Suleman at Citadel). And there don't seem to be too many buyers of any kind out there right now http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5844.html 2008-03-05T21:51:00-05:00 2008-03-05T21:51:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Traditionally, the FCC Chair gets out of the way and allows the new president to put his own choice in the position. But http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5847.html 2008-03-06T15:53:00-05:00 2008-03-06T15:53:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Everybody seems to agree that the FCC's action on cross-ownership was arbitrary and capricious. Some also believe its lack of action on other broadcast ownership http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5812.html 2008-03-05T09:48:00-05:00 2008-03-05T09:48:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Can't see this case going anywhere, unless it turns out that the malfunction was caused by interference from one of those experimental unlicensed white space devices. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5805.html 2008-03-05T21:40:00-05:00 2008-03-05T21:40:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Wondering how John McCain (R-AZ) handled this the first time Dorgan used the tactic? Answer: Agreed with Dorgan philosophically but opposed the tactic. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5808.html 2008-03-05T21:45:00-05:00 2008-03-05T21:45:00-05:00 Dave Seyler It is not a constitutional right to see any games, or to set the price to see them, or to demand that programmers show them at all. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5806.html 2008-03-05T15:43:00-05:00 2008-03-05T15:43:00-05:00 Dave Seyler A number of measures directed at increasing the number of "eligible entities" in the ranks of broadcast owners are officially out on the street after http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5873.html 2008-03-09T15:27:00-04:00 2008-03-09T15:27:00-04:00 Dave Seyler This is where a lot of the last-minute political buys will be coming from, especially if you're in a district that wasn't on anybody's map but suddenly proves competitive. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5766.html 2008-03-04T15:33:00-05:00 2008-03-04T15:33:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The witnesses are lined up for the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet hearing tomorrow entitled “Competition in the Sports Programming Marketplace.” (And you thought http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5767.html 2008-03-04T15:34:00-05:00 2008-03-04T15:34:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The ongoing road show presented by the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation will pull into the Tampa Convention Center next week, 3/13/08. It’s actually http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5731.html 2008-03-03T09:54:00-05:00 2008-03-03T09:54:00-05:00 Dave Seyler RBR/TVBR observation: If we were ABC, we would be arguing that this alone constitutes 1,339,000 reasons to throw the fine out on grounds of selective enforcement. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5738.html 2008-03-03T15:57:00-05:00 2008-03-03T15:57:00-05:00 Dave Seyler Informed on 2/20/07 of a hole in the fence around the tower for KRAE-AM Cheyenne WY, owned by Brahmin Broadcasting Corporation, the staff felt pretty http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5717.html 2008-03-02T12:07:00-05:00 2008-03-02T12:07:00-05:00 Dave Seyler FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate (R) has gone where no woman has gone before: To the list of honorees recognized as the annual recipient of http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5719.html 2008-03-02T12:09:00-05:00 2008-03-02T12:09:00-05:00 Dave Seyler And the way it happened has rivals pondering possible complaints to regulatory authorities. ABC KEZI-TV 9 in Eugene OR is the on-air home of newsman http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/5718.html 2008-03-02T12:08:00-05:00 2008-03-02T12:08:00-05:00 Dave Seyler The NTIA is charged with running the digital-to-analog converter box coupon program portion of the DTV transition, but it is undergoing a good bit of