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CommLawBlog
Update: Effective Date Set for New Experimental Radio Rules
By FHH Law
The effective date for many of the new experimental radio rules adopted by the FCC last January has been announced.
Broadcast Law Blog
$3000 Fine Against Noncommercial Station for Underwriting Violations – With Discussion of PSAs as Public Interest Programming and Cigarette Ads in Classic Radio Program
In a decision granting the license renewal of a noncommercial radio station, the FCC’s Media Bureau addressed a number of interesting issues – including the requirements for noncommercial underwriting announcements, whether PSAs meet a…
Broadcast Law Blog
Another $4000 FCC Fine for Radio Station that Fails to Disclose All Material Rules of a Broadcast Contest the First Time the Contest was Announced
The FCC has upheld a fine issued to a radio station licensee for what it determined was a failure to disclose all the rules of a broadcast contest. The giveaway was…
Global Media and Communications Watch
Communications Authority Publishes Responses to Public Consultation on Proposed Amendments to the Codes of Practice on Television and Radio Programme and Advertising Standards
In September 2012 the Communications Authority issued a consultation paper to invite views from the public on the proposed amendments to the Codes of Practice governing television and radio programmes…
CommLawBlog
Update: Mission Abstract Opponents Make Their Case for Keeping Stay in Place
By FHH Law
It's Mission Abstract Update Time! In the lawsuit brought by Mission Abstract Data against a bunch of Big Broadcasters, those Big Broadcasters have recently filed a pleading that radio broadcasters…
Broadcast Law Blog
$2000 FCC Fine for Recording Telephone Conversation – Even Though the Conversation was Never Broadcast
The FCC last week proposed to fine a broadcaster for calling someone with their tape recorder running, with the intent to broadcast the taped conversation on the air. According to the Notice…
Broadcast Law Blog
FCC Clarifies Rules for LPFM – Part 2 – Interference to Full Power FM Stations
In part one of our report on the FCC’s recent actions on LPFM issues, we wrote about the FCC decisions about what to do with pending FM translator applications that may have an…
Broadcast Law Blog
FCC Letter Questions Multi-Hop Move of FM Translator – Limits on Availability of Translators for AM Stations?
An FCC letter to the licensee of an FM translator owner asking very specific information about a series of applications to move that translator to a larger market raises question as to whether…
Broadcast Law Blog
Strong Interest in FCC Auction for New FM Construction Permits
The FCC today released its further Public Notice in connection with FCC Auction No. 93, which offers for sale 119 construction permits for new FM radio stations in various communities across the country. …
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Best in Law Blogs : LexBlog Network : September 22, 2010
The total for posts on the LexBlog Network today comes to 125. In those 125 we have David Oxenford discussing the approaching auction of new FM stations while Steve Lombardi…