Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2013

'It has been almost a year since the FCC adopted rules for an online public inspection file for television stations. This week, the Commission released a Public Notice requesting comments on how the rules are performing – specifically focusing on the online political file. While the Commission''s rules currently require only that the affiliates of the top four networks, in the Top 50 markets, maintain their political files online , the Commission plans to expand that requirement to all tel

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The Paralegal Resource

JUNE 10, 2013

In simple terms, a contract is a legally binding agreement between two parties. Contracts are an essential part of all business relationships. However, despite their importance and ubiquity, there is a fair amount of confusion concerning contract law and what exactly constitutes a contract. So, it is important to understand the basics of a contract law because it is vital for any business.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 26, 2013

'In at least 7 decisions released last week, the FCC fined TV stations between $3000 and $18,000 for failure to timely file Form 398 Children’s Television Reports – reporting on the programming broadcast by the stations to address the educational and informational needs of children. In these cases, the fines were not for failing to file the reports at all, but instead for the failure to timely file the reports.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2013

'Sometimes, even though you have FCC authority for your operations, you can still run into issues that can cause you to have that authority pulled out from under your operations. In three cases decided this week, the FCC’s Audio Division interpreted a number of its procedural rules – in two cases leading to the cancellation of FM translator licenses and the silencing of operating translator stations.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 18, 2013

'Low Power FM potential applicants , start your engines. The FCC has announced the long-awaited window for the filing of applications for new LPFM stations. The window will last from October 15-October 29. During this period, nonprofit organizations and governmental organizations will have the opportunity to file for new stations on any FM channel anywhere in the country – as long as they don’t interfere with existing FM or FM translator stations (or channel 6 TV stations which opera

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The Paralegal Resource

JUNE 10, 2013

Technology has advanced in leaps and bounds in the past few decades, and one of the best outcomes of this is the free sharing of information. Before the age of the internet, obtaining personal data involved weeks of digging through legal documents and bills in order to glean the slightest information. Nowadays, paralegals can quickly obtain the information they need by doing a simple web search.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 10, 2013

'The Register of Copyrights, Maria Pallente, has made a series of speeches about the need to modernize Copyright , including offering testimony before Congress on the matter. Her comments are but one sign that modernizing the Copyright Act has become the new catch-phrase in Washington. As the Courts have over the last few months wrestled with a host of copyright issues principally arising from digital media, boundaries that had carefully been set up by established copyright principles have been

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Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2013

'The deadline for comments on the FCC’s indecency rules was extended until June 19, confirmed in a notice published in the Federal Register this past week. Given this extension, it is worth reviewing what the FCC proposed to do in this proceeding, as there is a significant amount of misinformation circulating in certain publications and in rumors floating around the Internet about the scope of the proceeding and the FCC''s intent in launching its inquiry.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2013

'While I was away for the last few weeks, there have been a number of actions important to broadcasters and other media companies that we’ll be covering in the next few days. For broadcasters, one annual notice that recently was released by the FCC is the proposal for this year''s annual regulatory fees which will be payable in August or September to reimburse the government for the cost of the FCC''s regulation of the industry.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 23, 2013

'In one week this month, Apple announced that it will get into Internet Radio, and Pandora, the biggest player in that space, announced that it will be buying a traditional, over-the-air radio station. What do these two big announcements say about the state of music royalties for digital music services? Apple''s struggles to get its service launched were well chronicled, as it was working to get an agreement for its new service from the record labels.

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