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Broadcasters Should Evaluate Attack Ads for Liability Concerns in the Final Weeks Before the November Election

By |2024-10-10T10:32:50-05:00October 10th, 2024|Legal News|

With less than a month to go before the November election, we can expect more and more attack ads, some of which may lead to cease and desist letters from the candidate being attacked.  These letters can raise the risk of defamation claims against broadcasters and cable companies when the ads are not bought by... Continue Reading…

Broadcasters Should Evaluate Attack Ads for Liability Concerns in the Final Weeks Before the November Election

By |2024-10-10T10:32:50-05:00October 10th, 2024|Legal News|

With less than a month to go before the November election, we can expect more and more attack ads, some of which may lead to cease and desist letters from the candidate being attacked.  These letters can raise the risk of defamation claims against broadcasters and cable companies when the ads are not bought by... Continue Reading…

FCC Applies Rural Radio Policy to Block Move of Silent AM Station to New City of License – Do We Still Need a Rural Radio Policy? 

By |2024-09-19T11:12:15-05:00September 19th, 2024|Legal News|

Our recent posts have been obsessed with the FCC’s regulatory fees and the issues with the CORES fee filing system miscomputing the fees for many radio stations (an issue that seemingly has now been resolved so that payments can be made by the September 26 deadline).  In doing so, we have minimized our coverage of... Continue Reading…

FCC Announces Filing of Radio Regulatory Fees is Back On – Due Date Still September 26

By |2024-09-18T07:52:47-05:00September 18th, 2024|Legal News|

The FCC yesterday released a Public Notice announcing that its CORES system, through which regulatory fees are submitted, has been updated and the incorrect regulatory fee amounts for radio stations have been corrected.  As we wrote last week, the FCC asked that radio broadcasters suspend their fee filings when it became apparent that many radio... Continue Reading…

FCC Recognizes Issues with Regulatory Fee Amounts in CORES Filing System: Asks Broadcasters to Wait to Pay Fees While Problems are Addressed

By |2024-09-13T16:41:51-05:00September 13th, 2024|Legal News|

As we noted on our Blog earlier this week, there were reported problems with the system for filing annual regulatory fees.  Fee amounts in the FCC’s CORES system, where the fee payments are made, were not corresponding in some cases to the FCC’s look-up system for checking what a station’s regulatory fees were supposed to... Continue Reading…

FEC to Consider AI in Political Ads at Their September 19 Meeting – A New Compromise Proposal is Advanced

By |2024-09-13T11:01:18-05:00September 13th, 2024|Legal News|

After postponing consideration of a proposal (which we wrote about here) from the Republican Commissioners at the Federal Election Commission to reject calls for a rulemaking to look at whether to require that there be labeling of political ads generated by artificial intelligence that falsely depicts a candidate, the AI item is back on the... Continue Reading…

FCC Regulatory Fees Due September 26  – FCC CORES Database Available for Payment, Some Filing Glitches Reported

By |2024-09-12T10:33:32-05:00September 12th, 2024|Legal News|

As we noted this past weekend in our weekly update of regulatory actions, the FCC last Friday released its Order setting the regulatory fees due from broadcasters and other FCC regulated entities – fees that the FCC is required to collect each year the start of the federal government’s new fiscal year which begins in... Continue Reading…

Window for Lowest Unit Rates for Candidate Advertising for the November Election Opens Today, September 6 – Are You Ready? 

By |2024-09-06T11:18:04-05:00September 6th, 2024|Legal News|

The lowest unit rate window for the November 5 general election opens today, September 6.  With that date in mind, we thought that it was a good idea to review the basic FCC rules and policies affecting those charges. In this election, with the Presidency and control in both houses of Congress at stake as... Continue Reading…

Using Artificial Intelligence in Developing Broadcast Programming – Watch for Legal Issues

By |2024-09-05T11:55:28-05:00September 5th, 2024|Legal News|

It seems like virtually every panel at every broadcast and media convention, at some point, ends up involving a discussion of Artificial Intelligence. Sessions on AI are filled to capacity, and sessions unrelated to the topic seem to have to mention AI to appear relevant.  Whenever there is a topic that so thoroughly takes over... Continue Reading…

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