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FCC Proposes Annual Regulatory Fees – For Broadcasters, Fees Proposed to Increase, and FCC Proposes Future Change in UHF/VHF Fee Schedule
While I was away for the last few weeks, there have been a number of actions important to broadcasters and other media companies that we’ll be covering in the next few…
CommLawBlog
Aereo in the Second Circuit: Wha’ Happened?
By Harry Cole
If you were to buy into Fox's over-the-top reaction to the Second Circuit's recent decision in the Aereo proceeding, you might get the impression that that decision marks some major,…
Past the Press Box
Backwards we go: cable subscription required for non-CBS games on NCAA Tournament app
For a while there, it felt like the future. All it took was one incredibly-reasonable payment and you could have access to every single NCAA Tournament game, and you could watch…
CommLawBlog
Some TV Broadcasters Relieved of Obligation to Upload Some (But Not All) Issues/Programs Lists to Online Public Inspection File
By Harry Cole
The Media Bureau has announced that some TV stations may opt not to post to the FCC's online public file system their quarterly issues/programs lists covering earlier renewal cycle(s). Before…
CommLawBlog
Form 323 – Kissing the SUFRN Good-bye?
By Harry Cole
An FCC proposal would abandon "special use FRNs" in Ownership Reports and require social security number-based FRNs instead . . . for noncommercial licensees, too!
Global Media and Communications Watch
Truth or Dare: Encouraging Truthful Bidding in the US Incentive Auction
By Trey Hanbury
By: Coleman Bazelon & Giulia McHenry, The Brattle Group; Trey Hanbury, Hogan Lovells The Federal Communications Commission recently proposed a voluntary “incentive auction” of most of the nation’s over-the-air television frequencies. The…
CommLawBlog
Political Advertising 2012 – A Refresher Course for the Final Month
By FHH Law
With Campaign 2012 heading for the finish line, here's a quick recap of some of the rules with which broadcasters should be familiar as last-minute political buys start to flood…
CommLawBlog
New Broadcast-Related Top Level Domains Proposed to ICANN
By FHH Law
More information about some of the 1,930 applications for new generic top level domains currently being reviewed by ICANN.
CommLawBlog
Online TV Public File Demonstration Yields New Information; Not-Yet-Effective Rule Already Waived
By FHH Law
With the August 2 effective date of the online TV public file rule just a couple of days away, more information about the FCC's system is bubbling to the surface.…
CommLawBlog
TV Public File Update: The NAB Replies
By FHH Law
The NAB has replied to the FCC's opposition to the NAB's request that the effective date of the TV online public file rule be stayed.