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More Incentive Auction News – LPTV Webinar Postponed; NAB Study Looks At How Many Stations Per Market Will Need to Surrender Licenses for Successful Auction; More Auction Seminars Scheduled

By David Oxenford|2015-02-19T17:46:59-06:00February 19th, 2015|Legal News|

As we accelerate toward next year’s planned TV incentive auction, it seems like there is news almost every day of interest to television broadcasters who may be affected by the FCC’s efforts to clear TV spectrum so that it can be repurposed for wireless broadband use and sold to wireless companies and the subsequent repacking [&hellip… Continue Reading

FCC to Remote Pickup Licensees: Let’s Get Digital!

By R. J. Quianzon|2015-02-19T11:53:06-06:00February 19th, 2015|Legal News|

Commission proposes technical adjustments to help remote pickup operations enter the digital age. It looks like broadcasters’ Remote Pickup (RPU) operations may finally be getting pushed into the digital 21st Century. In response to separate peti...

STELAR Aftermath: Ban on Joint Retrans Negotiations, Other Rules Revised

By Dan Kirkpatrick|2015-02-18T19:38:15-06:00February 18th, 2015|Legal News|

At Congress’s direction, FCC narrows, considerably, the ability of same-market stations to negotiate retransmission consent deals jointly. Back in November (as we reported), Congress passed the STELA Reauthorization Act of 2014 (a/k/a STELAR). A...

LMS Watch: Form 2100 Gets Four More Schedules

By Anne Goodwin Crump|2015-02-18T17:38:40-06:00February 18th, 2015|Legal News|

Attention LPTV, Class A TV and TV Translator CP and license applicants: Form 2100 is your ONLY option as of February 23. Last September we introduced our readers to the new “Licensing and Management System” (LMS) that the Commission plans t...

Comment Dates Set on FCC Proposal to Extend Online Public File Obligations to Radio, Cable, and Satellite

By David Oxenford|2015-02-17T11:08:42-06:00February 17th, 2015|Legal News|

The FCC has finally had published in the Federal Register its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing to extend the online public file obligations to radio, satellite radio, cable operators and satellite TV providers. This publication starts the countdown to the filing deadline for the comments in the proceeding. Comments are due by March 16, and [&hellip… Continue Reading

Marriott Checks Out of Declaratory Ruling/Rulemaking Proceeding

By Harry Cole|2015-02-16T17:04:40-06:00February 16th, 2015|Legal News|

Prudent network management or Wi-Fi jamming? The question has been taken off the table … for now. Last year we reported on a couple of interactions between the FCC and the well-known hotelier, the Marriott Corporation. The news started inauspici...

Newsgathering Drones: Prepare for Takeoff?

By Kevin Goldberg|2015-02-16T15:05:14-06:00February 16th, 2015|Legal News|

FAA announces NPRM indicating that it will reverse course on commercial use of drones. It’s a time-honored Washington tradition that, when an agency wants to avoid press coverage of a controversial action, it will release notice of that action la...

Form 323: So Long, SUFRNs; Hello, RUFRNs?

By Dan Kirkpatrick|2015-02-16T14:37:14-06:00February 16th, 2015|Legal News|

Another ownership reporting cycle, another acronym: the FCC continues to struggle to devise an ownership reporting mechanism that will give the Commission what it wants. The Commission has once again waded into the muck of how individual interest holde...

Reminder: Sponsorship ID’s Required Even When the Government is the Sponsor

By Harry Cole|2015-02-13T11:57:23-06:00February 13th, 2015|Legal News|

If Uncle Sam is paying for the time, Uncle Sam is the sponsor. Long-time reader, broadcaster, Friend of the Blog, client (and, yes, attorney) Tom Taggart has suggested that a reminder about sponsorship identification might be useful in light of a...