Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 24, 2012

Does a broadcast station need to book a political ad buy for an agency purporting to be representing a candidate, but refusing to reveal who that candidate is? We’ve recently received this question from a number of broadcast stations in a number of states, as agencies seemingly are jockeying to tie up valuable commercial time in advance of what is likely to be a hotly contested election in November.

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The Paralegal Resource

MAY 17, 2012

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 10, 2012

The over-the-air reception of television stations has taken on heightened awareness in recent years. In the regulatory world, this prominence comes from the FCC's consideration of taking back some of the broadcast spectrum for use by wireless broadband based at least partially on the Commission's belief that broadcasters are not using that spectrum efficiently as many viewers,over the last few decades, receive their TV programming from satellite and cable providers.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 10, 2012

FCC fines for violations of the FCC rules dealing with contests have been common in the last few years. Because of these fines, we recently conducted a webinar for the Kansas Association of Broadcasters , discussing the requirements of FCC rule Section 73.1216 which regulates the conduct of station-sponsored contests. We also discussed what should be addressed in contest rules, issues with contests that advertisers themselves sponsor, and considerations that stations should undertake to avoid ci

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 29, 2012

Since the start of the FCC's examination of its multiple ownership rules in anticipation of its Quadrennial Review of these rules, the question of TV shared services agreements has been one raised by public interest groups , suggesting that combinations of local TV stations for news or sales purposes are not in the public interest, as such combinations reduce competition in the local markets.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 20, 2012

The FCC last week proposed to fine a broadcaster for calling someone with their tape recorder running, with the intent to broadcast the taped conversation on the air. According to the Notice of Apparent Liability issued by the FCC , the recording was stopped after the radio station announcers identified who they were, and the person who was called said that he did not want to be recorded.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 15, 2012

In recent days we have seen political action committiees (PACs) claiming they are "prohibited" from running political ads in primary states due to "new rules" regarding "electioneering communications." As explained below, these claims are incorrect. What they are really doing is trying to avoid the need to reveal the identity of their contributors, following a US District Court decision in March.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 15, 2012

The Radio Music Licensing Committee has announced a settlement with BMI over music royalties for the public performance of musical compositions for the period from 2010-2016. Terms have not been announced, so we can't provide the details, yet. But as we wrote recently when the RMLC announced the terms of its agreement with ASCAP , we would assume that the terms would be somewhat similar to the ASCAP deal.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 14, 2012

In perhaps the most severe set of penalties that we have seen for public inspection file violations , the FCC released two sets of fines to stations that had self-reported, in their license renewal applications, that they did not have Quarterly Issues Programs lists in their public file for the entire 8 year license term. As we recently wrote , $10,000 fines for missing Quarterly Issues Programs lists have become the new standard where a substantial number of the lists are missing.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 8, 2012

At this year's NAB Convention , digital issues were much talked about. In fact, the NAB held, for the first time, a day and a half session focusing on radio stations and their digital efforts, called the Digital Strategies Exchange. I was on a panel called the Consultant's Corner, and discussed legal issues that broadcasters may face as they move more and more into the digital world.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 6, 2012

The FCC just released its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to establish the regulatory fees to be paid by each of the entities that it regulates. Each year, before the FCC collects its annual regulatory fees from broadcasters and other entities subject to its oversight, it asks for comments on the amount of those fees. This year, as has been the case in most of the past few years, there are few changes proposed in this Notice, thought the Commission does promise to issue additional rulemakings late

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 1, 2012

The FCC has released the text of its Report and Order adopted last week, authorizing full power and Class A TV stations to share spectrum as part of the band clearing process for future wireless broadband spectrum auctions. This action was authorized by Congress in the Spectrum Act, which became law in February as part of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 9, 2012

The Senate on Monday approved, after months of delay, the nominations as new FCC Commissioners of Democrat Jessica Rosenworcel and Republican Ajit Pai. Once they are sworn in and assume their new jobs in the next few days, this will bring the FCC up to full strength with 5 seated Commissioners for the first time in a year. Rosenworcel comes from having worked for the Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees FCC regulation.

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