Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2009

The Radio Music Licensing Committee ("RMLC") has announced that it has entered into agreements with both ASCAP and BMI for interim royalties to be paid by commercial radio stations until final royalties are set. These royalties will be set either through negotiation or through litigation in Federal Courts which act as a "rate court" to determine what reasonable rates will be under the antitrust decrees that govern these organizations.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2009

This afternoon the FCC announced that it would postpone the opportunity to apply for new digital low power television stations until July 26, 2010. The Commission had begun accepting applications for new digital LPTV stations in so-called rural areas beginning in late August, and had previously announced that it intended to expand the first-come, first-served filing opportunity to the rest of the country starting January 25, 2010.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2009

On December 1, 2009, FTC revised Guidelines went into effect updating policies dealing with the use in advertising using testimonials and endorsements , specifically affecting celebrity endorsements and sponsorship disclosure. These revised guidelines directly impact the established practices of broadcasters and new media companies. These revised endorsement and testimonial guidelines effectively ban the old standard “results not typical” disclaimer so commonly in use in connection w

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Only a day after asking over-the-air television broadcasters to justify their existence and why some or all of their spectrum should not be reclaimed by the FCC to be used for wireless broadband (and giving interested parties only until December 21 to not only justify their existence, but also to come up with technical means by which the spectrum could be more efficiently used , business plans for their future use of the spectrum, and a survey of the competing needs for that spectrum - see more

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2009

The new FCC Form 323 Ownership Report is expected to be available in the FCC's CDBS electronic filing database by Wednesday, December 9, according to a Public Notice released by the FCC yesterday - so that commercial broadcasters should have a month to prepare the form in time for the January 11 filing deadline. As we've written before , the form and filing deadline have been much delayed as the Commission struggled to work out kinks in its electronic filing process.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2009

The FCC today issued an Order suspending the upcoming January 11 deadline for the filing of new Form 323 Ownership Reports by all licensees of commercial broadcast stations. As we have written before, the approval of this form has been a tortured process, and left open many questions about the practicalities of completing the form, as well as in connection with certain policy issues raised by the form.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2009

The Commission has announced the next in its series of media ownership workshops , this one to address financial issues facing the media industry. The workshop, part of the Commission's 2010 quadrennial review of its ownership rules, will be held on January 12, 2010 at the FCC, and will address, in the FCC's words: "the current financial and economic conditions and marketplace factors affecting the media industry and how the FCC should take these into account as it conducts its review proce

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2009

The new FCC Form 323 Ownership Report is now available in the FCC's electronic filing system. Thus, after many delays, licensees can prepare and file the form that is due from licensees of commercial broadcast stations by January 11. The Commission also reminded broadcasters that it will be conducting a Tutorial on the new Form on Wednesday, December 9 at 2 PM Eastern Time which can be accessed through the FCC's website.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2009

The FCC has wasted no time in pressing ahead with the discussion of whether the spectrum currently used by local broadcast television stations is being put to the greatest use and whether it should be "re-purposed" for the so-called broadband effort. This afternoon, the FCC issued a Public Notice soliciting comments by December 21st regarding the demand for spectrum, the factors the FCC should consider when considering the re-purposing of TV spectrum, and potential approaches to increa

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2009

The 2010 political broadcasting season is off to a fast start, with a controversy already erupting in connection with the Illinois Senate race to fill the seat once held by President Obama. Illinois has one of the first primaries in the nation for the 2010 election, to be held on February 2, 2010. In that race, Andy Martin, one of the Republican candidates for the open Senate seat that will be vacated by Senator Burris, is reportedly running ads on radio in Illinois stating that the front-runner

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