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Broadcast Law Blog
FCC Regulatory Fees Due September 24 – Plus FCC Proposes Changes in Future Broadcaster Fee Computations
The FCC announced yesterday 2015 regulatory fees are due by 11:59 pm (Eastern Daylight Time) on September 24, 2015. The FCC also announced that the FCC’s automated filing and payment…
Capital Thinking
FCC Proposes to Update Common Carrier Rules
Legislative Activity House Members Introduce Rural Call Completion Joint Resolution On April 29, Reps. Bob Latta (R-OH) and Peter Welch (D-VT) introduced H. Res. 234, a bipartisan resolution outlining the…
Media Law Prof Blog
CNN To Begin Broadcasting Again In Russia
From the Hollywood Reporter: CNN has obtained a new license to broadcast in Russia. The network had stopped broadcasting in January because of new legislation that banned commercials on pay…
Broadcast Law Blog
FCC Asks for Comment on Radio Broadcasters Proposal for Moving Online Some Sponsorship Identifications
A group of radio broadcasters have asked the FCC to agree to waive some provisions of the current sponsorship identification rules of the FCC to permit stations that have sponsored…
Media Law Prof Blog
Amendments To Australian Broadcast Law May Not Have Effect Intended
Broadcasters say that amendments to the Australian Broadcasting Services Act could result in unintended consequences. The federal government wants more Australian content on television, but what might actually happen is…
Inside Global Tech
FCC Tentatively Concludes that Certain Online Video Distributors are MPVDs
On December 19, the FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) relating to the designation of certain online video programming distributors as “multichannel video programming distributors” (MVPDs) under the…
Global Media and Communications Watch
The challenges of the new telecommunications and broadcasting law in Mexico
The new President of Mexico Peña Nieto started work on 1 December 2012. The following day, the three main political parties executed the so-called “Pact for Mexico”, which contained several…
CommLawBlog
FCC Rethinks Wireless Microphones
By FHH Law
Many of the alternative bands would require developing technologies not currently used by wireless microphones. In the meantime, the FCC is hoping to make maximum use of unlicensed operation.
Broadcast Law Blog
FCC Action on TV Issues Coming Soon – Sports Blackout Rule, White Spaces, Post-Auction Treatment of LPTV and TV Translators, and OET-69 Revisions
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…
Media Law Prof Blog
Ofcom Investigates the (UK) Gold Channel Over Live Monty Python Show
Ofcom, the UK broadcasting agency, is investigating complaints on two fronts about the recent live Monty Python show, which aired on the Gold Channel. Some viewers objected to the swearing…