Comment 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 ArticleEffective Date of FCC Prohibition on Joint Negotiation of TV Retransmission...
In today’s Federal Register, the FCC is published its new rule on prohibiting the joint negotiation of retransmission consent agreements by stations that are not commonly owned. According to the...
View ArticleFCC Fines Cable System $2.25 Million for Retransmitting TV Stations Without...
The FCC yesterday issued an order imposing a $2.25 Million fine on a set of companies that operated a system that retransmitted TV signals to households in large housing units in the Houston area. The...
View ArticleNot Dead Yet – Aereo Tries To Reinvent Itself By Arguing that it is a Cable...
The Supreme Court decision in the Aereo case seemed to be the end of the line for the service that was retransmitting television stations signals without consent, as it found that the broadcasters were...
View ArticleWill FCC Extend MVPD Rules to Online Video Providers – Including...
Could a change in the FCC treatment of Internet delivered video services be in the works – and how would that affect services like Aereo? There were a number of published articles last week that...
View ArticleFCC Policy by Blog Post – Over-the-Top Internet-Delivered Television...
The FCC announced two significant policy initiatives by Blog post in the last week – perhaps recognizing that the Internet provides a better way of packaging a message about policy directions than an...
View ArticleCongress Passes STELAR – Renewing Authorization of Satellite Carriers...
Last week, the Senate approved a reauthorization of STELA, the new bill called STELAR (the “STELA Reauthorization Act of 2014”), adopting the version that had been approved by the House of...
View ArticleFCC Asks for Comments on Petition for Rulemaking that Would Tie TV License...
The FCC issued a public notice seeking comment on a Petition for Rulemaking filed by cable operator Mediacom asking for the FCC to require TV stations, in their license renewal applications, to certify...
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 ArticleDates Set for Comments on Good Faith Negotiation of Retransmission Consent...
A month ago, the FCC released its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking looking to reassess the requirement that broadcasters and MVPDs (cable and satellite television) engage in “good faith” negotiations over...
View ArticleNovember Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters – Incentive Auction and Biennial...
November is another of those months with no regular filing obligations – no EEO public file and Mid-Term reports, no noncommercial ownership reports, and no quarterly issues programs lists or...
View ArticleSinclair Pays $9.4 Million to FCC to Settle Claims of Improper Joint...
Last week, the FCC announced a consent decree with Sinclair Broadcast Group where Sinclair agreed to pay $9.495 million to the FCC to settle claims that it negotiated retransmission consent agreements...
View ArticleDates Set for Comments on Good Faith Negotiation of Retransmission Consent...
A month ago, the FCC released its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking looking to reassess the requirement that broadcasters and MVPDs (cable and satellite television) engage in “good faith” negotiations over...
View ArticleNovember Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters – Incentive Auction and Biennial...
November is another of those months with no regular filing obligations – no EEO public file and Mid-Term reports, no noncommercial ownership reports, and no quarterly issues programs lists or...
View ArticleSinclair Pays $9.4 Million to FCC to Settle Claims of Improper Joint...
Last week, the FCC announced a consent decree with Sinclair Broadcast Group where Sinclair agreed to pay $9.495 million to the FCC to settle claims that it negotiated retransmission consent agreements...
View ArticleFCC Reminder to TV Stations – July 31 Deadline for Adding to Their Public...
Broadcast TV stations have until July 31, 2020 to upload to their public file a phone number and email address to be used for receiving signal carriage notices and questions. This information must be...
View ArticleThis Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: September 26, 2020 to October 2, 2020
Here are some of the regulatory developments and legal actions of the last week of significance to broadcasters, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may...
View ArticleThis Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: November 14, 2020 to November 20,...
Here are some of the regulatory developments of the last week of significance to broadcasters, 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: March 13, 2021 to March 19, 2021
Here are some of the regulatory developments of the last week of significance to broadcasters, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your...
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