Comment Dates Set on Possible Revision to Rules on Significantly Viewed...
This week, the FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Significant Viewing was published in the Federal Register, setting a comment deadline of May 14, with reply comments due by June 15. The NPRM asks...
View ArticleFCC Attributes JSAs, to Examine SSAs and Network Nonduplication and Syndex...
The FCC meeting yesterday proposed to attribute Joint Sales Agreements (making them “count” for multiple ownership purposes – meaning that one broadcaster can’t do a JSA with another station unless it...
View ArticleDetails of the FCC Decision Prohibiting the Joint Negotiation of...
While we are waiting for the full text of the FCC’s decision taken Monday on the multiple ownership rules, rolling one Quadrennial Review into another and prohibiting most Joint Sales Agreements, we...
View ArticleComment Dates Set on FCC’s Proposed Elimination of the Network Nonduplication...
The FCC is now taking comments on the proposal to do away with the syndicated exclusivity and network nonduplication protection rules. The Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, about which we wrote...
View ArticleFCC Extends Comment Deadlines on Proceedings on Multilingual Emergency...
Some quick items to update some of our recent articles. The FCC has granted extensions of time to comment in two rulemaking proceedings, and released its tentative agenda for its next open meeting...
View ArticleWhat Washington Has in Store for Broadcasters in 2015 – Part 1, What’s Up at...
Each year, at about this time, we pull out the crystal ball and make predictions of the issues affecting broadcasters that will likely bubble up to the top of the FCC’s agenda in the coming year....
View ArticleA Compulsory License for Internet TV Platforms to Retransmit Broadcast TV?...
Over-the-top video systems, using the Internet to transmit over-the-air TV signals to consumers, are back in the news. Last week, a US District Court Judge in the Central District of California, in a...
View ArticleFCC Chairman Details Issues Coming Soon for Broadcasters – Review of...
In an article posted on the FCC’s blog yesterday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler listed four actions that would soon be coming out of the FCC to address broadcast issues. For TV, these include looking at...
View ArticleThis Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: September 24, 2022 to September 30,...
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your...
View ArticleThis Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: October 30 to November 3, 2023
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your...
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