• Tax legislation affecting media industry; provisions in economic stimulus tax legislation affecting tax treatment of the film industry; possible revenue-raising tax proposals affecting U.S. and foreign operations of U.S.-based multinational media company; possible legislative proposals regarding the tax treatment of film development costs
• Media policy and possible legislation affecting the cable, broadcast, and satellite industries

Duration: November 1, 2007 to September 30, 2013

General Issues: Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV

Spending: about $180,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2007: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, House of Representatives,U.S. Senate,, House of Representatives,Senate,, Y Y Internal Revenue Service, Treasury Department