Broadcast Law Blog
AUGUST 24, 2012
Radio broadcasters have been receiving invoices from the Radio Music License Committee (“RMLC”), and many are asking whether the invoice is “real.” Some stations seem concerned that they are being asked to pay some fee that they really don’t owe. The truth is that this is one bill that most commercial stations in fact do owe, and it is a bill that they should actually be happy to pay.
The Paralegal Resource
AUGUST 16, 2012
Paralegals face an incredible challenge when they conduct witness interviews.
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Broadcast Law Blog
AUGUST 14, 2012
The Online Public File for television stations is now a reality. While appeals of the imposition of the rules remain pending, both the FCC and the US Court of Appeals denied stays of the August 2 effective date for the new requirements, so full-power and Class A television stations should now be complying with the new obligations to maintain their public files online.
Broadcast Law Blog
AUGUST 3, 2012
As we have previously advised , all full power and Class A TV stations are now required to upload their public inspection files to a dedicated FCC database created for this purpose. Although all new public file documents must be uploaded contemporaneously, stations will have six months or until February 2, 2013 to upload pre-existing public file documents (with the exception of the political file, as explained in our previous posting ).
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Broadcast Law Blog
AUGUST 28, 2012
With Hurricane Issac soon to make landfall on the Gulf Coast, the FCC is issuing its usual reminders to broadcasters and other communications facilities in areas that are likely to be affected by the storm. It has today issued two public notices. The first Public Notice reminds video providers - particularly television stations, but other video providers as well - that they need to present visually emergency information that they may be conveying verbally on the air so that those that are hearin
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Broadcast Law Blog
AUGUST 26, 2012
Radio stations are once again hearing about the Mission Abstract Data patents, as a firm representing them has been seeking a royalty for the use of the patent for certain digital music storage and retrieval systems. We’ve written about that patent before. When we last wrote on the subject , the patent was subject to review by the Patent Office, which had raised issues appearing to question the underlying validity of that patent.
Broadcast Law Blog
AUGUST 23, 2012
Two big fines for the broadcast of telephone conversations without first getting consent of the person at the other end of the phone were released by the FCC today, and each raises a number of interesting issues. Section 73.1206 of the FCC’s rules prohibits the broadcast, or recording for purposes of broadcast, of telephone calls without first getting the consent of the person on the other end of the phone.
Broadcast Law Blog
AUGUST 22, 2012
Having broadcast all of the material rules of a station’s contest was not enough to avoid a $10,000 fine for having misleading rules – when there were errors in the contest deadlines posted on a station’s website and in emails sent to contest participants. In an FCC Notice of Apparent Liability proposing a fine for a North Carolina FM station, the Commission also upped the fine from the usual $4000 base fine for a contest violation to $10,000, because the corporate parent of th
The Paralegal Resource
AUGUST 14, 2012
The discovery stage frequently predicts the outcome of a case.
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The Paralegal Resource
AUGUST 14, 2012
Daubert motions are typically presented before or during a trial.
Broadcast Law Blog
AUGUST 13, 2012
About 6 years ago, I started the Broadcast Law Blog, with a colleague now at the FCC, while at the law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. I want to thank that firm for the support that they gave to me and the Blog, which has allowed its readership to grow to heights that I hardly could have imagined when it was started. Recently, I made a change in law firms, moving to Wilkinson Barker Knauer LLP.
Broadcast Law Blog
AUGUST 13, 2012
FCC Annual Regulatory Fees are due to be submitted to the FCC by 11:59 PM on September 13, 2012, according to a series of public notices issued by the FCC. The FCC’s Public Notice providing the instructions for broadcaster’s fees is available here. As set forth in that notice, the Commission will no longer be mailing a reminder to broadcasters about these fees, so stations need to remember their obligations on their own.
The Paralegal Resource
AUGUST 7, 2012
According to the Federal Justice Center, Federal courts are established under the United States Constitution by Congress to decide disputes associated with the Constitution and laws passed by Congress.
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