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The big news in the music world this week is that Apple finally is able to sell digital downloads of the Beatles catalog in its iTunes music store. For years, the copyright holders who control the Beatles master recordings have withheld permission to use feature the Beatles recordings on iTunes and other digital download and on-demand streaming services, seemingly afraid of diluting the value of their copyrights.
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The FCC today started an examination of the future of the spectrum currently used by broadcast television, beginning the formal process of implementing the ideas raised in its Broadband Plan of repurposing some of that spectrum for use by wireless broadband technologies. Specifically, the FCC adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, seeking comment on a number of issues.
The FCC today announced that it will be holding a series of three hearings to assess the environmental impact of its Antenna Structure Registration (ASR) program. The FCC is required by the National Environmental Policy Act ("NEPA") to determine if its programs have any adverse environmental impact. In a Court decision in 2008, the US Court of Appeals determined that the FCC had not adequately assessed its obligations under NEPA with respect to the impact of communications towers on bi
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Operating a communications tower can always lead to issues, but two recent FCC decisions give tower owners some degree of relief. In one decision , the Commission’s Audio Services Division rejected a petition filed against the construction of new facilities for an AM station in Wasilla, Alaska – rejecting claims that the FCC’s RF radiation standards were not strict enough to protect local residents.
In another of a series of recent decisions, a regional field office of the FCC issued a Notice of Apparent Liability , proposing to fine a licensee $10,000 for missing seven Quarterly Programs Issues lists in its public file. As there have been so many recent cases raising the same issue, why mention this case? We highlight it here because of the excuse used by the licensee to try to get out of the fine - the licensee claimed that it was fault of a former employee who was responsible for the fil
In the "what were they thinking" category, the Society of Broadcast Engineers reports that there is a commercial for the new Skyline movie that contains an EAS tone - that can actually set off EAS receivers. If a station is operating without an attendant, with the EAS on automatic, a receiving station could be automatically start retransmitting its primary station if it hears the tone in the ad - causing the receiving stations to start running the commercial thinking that it is an EAS
In yet another example of the importance that the FCC places on emergency communications and safety issues, an FCC Enforcement Bureau District Field Office issued a Notice of Apparent Liability , proposing to fine a radio station $25,000 for violations including an EAS system that was not operational , as well as a tower that needed repainting and with lights that were not functioning properly.
Many station owners think they can adopt any name, positioning statement or slogan for their station so long as no one else in the market is using the exact same name or slogan. That thinking is often incorrect, and can be very costly if a name is adopted and has to be changed later because it infringes on someone else's intellectual property rights.
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An FCC Enforcement Bureau District Office today issued a Notice of Apparent Liability , proposing to fine an AM licensee $25,000 for not having a meaningful staff presence at the station's main studio, and for not being able to produce a public inspection file when the FCC inspectors visited the station. The station was being operated by another party pursuant to a Local Marketing Agreement ("LMA") and, when the FCC inspector showed up, none of the employees at the main studio identifi
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So does the mid-term election have any impact on broadcast regulation? While no one knows for sure what the political winds of Washington will have in store, in reading the analysis of the Tuesday election results, I was struck by the conclusions contained in one Op-Ed article in the Washington Post on the message of last week's Mid-Term elections, and the contrast of that perceived message to an article that had run in the same pages just a week before.
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