Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

'We wrote last week about some of the upcoming issues on the FCC’s agenda for the very short term related to the TV incentive auction to clear part of the TV spectrum for use by wireless companies, and the subsequent “repacking” of the TV stations who do not sell their licenses in the auction into the new smaller TV band. On Thursday, the FCC took a step to make that repacking somewhat more concrete – releasing a Public Notice where the FCC’s Media Bureau seeks comment on a draft TV Broadcaster

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Paralegal Alliance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the paralegal and legal assisting field is expected to grow at a rate of 17% between 2012 and 2022. This is 6% faster than the average industry growth rate. Now, here’s where most of you reading this, say “No Way! I don’t believe that for a second!” […].

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

'As the summer of copyright comes to an end, the music licensing issues which arose causing me to repeatedly write about this extremely contentious season in copyright law are by no means finished (see the most recent of our Summer of Copyright articles here ). In fact, on the first full day of autumn, we received a very interesting decision out of a US District Court in California on the lawsuit brought by Flo and Eddie against Sirius XM , finding that the music service improperly failed to pa

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

'In a case that has been watched by many AM licensees and debated at a number of broadcast conferences in the last few years, the FCC on Friday denied the “ Tell City waiver ,” by which the licensee of an AM station in Indiana sought to buy an FM translator in Colorado and move it to Indiana, on a non-adjacent channel, and use it to rebroadcast their AM station.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

'While many broadcasters have been watching Capitol Hill as Congress debates the issues surrounding the extension of satellite TV’s copyright permission to retransmit over-the-air television signals, and the attempts to add other provisions to the bill that could affect television stations, there are a number of issues teed up at the FCC that could also affect the industry.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

'With the lowest unit charge window for the November elections kicking into effect tomorrow (September 5), we thought that it was a good idea to review the basics FCC rules and policies affecting those charges. With each election seemingly breaking spending records from prior cycles, your station needs to be ready to comply with all of the FCC’s political advertising rules.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

'Get ready for more challenges to issue ads that you may be receiving this election season. The FCC’s Media Bureau today released a brief decision on the Sunlight Foundation’s complaint petition against two TV stations concerning the proper sponsorship identification for ads by Political Action Committees. We wrote about those complaints when they were filed back in July, here.

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Paralegal Alliance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

According to the American Bar Association (“ABA”), roughly 13% of malpractice claim errors are related to improper calendaring (See The Most Common Legal Malpractice Claims by Types of Alleged Error). If you’ve worked as a paralegal for very long you have almost certainly missed a deadline and your boss has probably missed a hearing or […].

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

'The FCC’s planned incentive auction, by which the Commission hopes to pay broadcasters to surrender some of their TV licenses so that these stations’ spectrum can be repurposed for wireless broadband uses, is almost impossible to define in a simple blog post. The FCC issued its Order on the Incentive Auction process several months ago and, despite that order being over 300 pages long, many issues remain unresolved.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

'Every election season there is the same refrain from candidates who are attacked in political ads run on broadcast stations – that ad is unfair and the broadcaster who is running it should take it off the air. Sometime, that request is sent by a lawyer with threats to bring legal actions if the broadcaster does not stop airing the ad. What is a broadcaster to do when it gets one of these requests to pull a political ad from the air?

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