Last month we reported that most of the rules adopted back in August to make text-to-911 service generally available took effect in October. As often happens, though, a small number of the new rules couldn’t kick in until the Office of Management...
Even though the election is over, political broadcasting issues have not stopped. Yesterday, the same groups (the Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, and the Sunlight Foundation) that had previously objected to the sponsorship identification of issue ads funded by PACs with a limited donor base have struck again. This time, they have filed a complaint with … Continue Reading
Sirius XM loses another ruling in California litigation about digital performance of pre-1972 recordings. As I reported in September, Sirius XM (and, by extension, just about any other provider of streamed digital music) suffered a setback in a Federal...
A recent notice about DTV construction permit applications got us thinking about our old friend, the PRA. Has the FCC changed the process for applying for DTV construction permits? Probably not, but a recent notice in the Federal Register seemed to sug...
Noncommercial webcasters are often forgotten in the discussion of the current proceeding to set Internet radio sound recording royalties. But, along with the royalties for commercial webcasters (we wrote about the proposed commercial rates here), the current Copyright Royalty Board proceeding will also set the rates for noncommercial webcasters. Various proposals for noncommercial royalties have … Continue Reading
The 25th Annual FCBA Charity Auction (a joint production of the FCBA’s Young Lawyers Committee and the FCBA Foundation) is happening on Thursday, November 7, 2014, from 6:30-10:00 p.m. in the Sphinx Ballroom at the Almas Temple, 1615 K Street, N....
Wireless Bureau invites comments on possible ways to encourage “more intensive” use of Part 22 spectrum. Late on a Friday afternoon in mid-October, the Wireless Bureau issued a curious public notice reminding licensees in the Paging and Ra...
Wilkommen, Bienvenu, Welcome! Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth is pleased to announce that Bob Winteringham has joined us as Of Counsel. A former Deputy General Counsel at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Bob will focus on assisting clients in th...
Last week we reported on the establishment of opposition and reply deadlines with respect to a couple dozen or so petitions seeking reconsideration of the Commission’s spectrum auction Report and Order. According to a follow-up notice in the Fede...