News – Page 337 – Tennessee Association of Broadcasters

Why is a US Radio Station Getting a Notice about Webcasting Royalties in Canada? – Why Webcasters Geo-Block Their Streams to Avoid International Music Royalties

By David Oxenford|2014-10-08T10:12:41-05:00October 8th, 2014|Legal News|

An Alabama radio station recently received a notice about the new royalty rates that are payable to ReSound, the Canadian equivalent of SoundExchange, a collective set up to receive from webcasters royalties for the public performance of sound recordings and to distribute those royalties to the copyright holders (usually the labels) and the artists who … Continue Reading

What’s a Broadcaster to Do When a Candidate Complains About the Truth of an Attack Ad? – Dealing with Ads from Non-Candidate, Third-Party Organizations

By David Oxenford|2014-10-07T10:35:07-05:00October 7th, 2014|Legal News|

As we move into the final weeks of the election season, and races heat up, there are always issues about attack ads and what a station needs to do when they receive a “take-down” notice from a candidate who is being attacked. We recently wrote about candidate ads, and the “no censorship” provision of Section … Continue Reading

Laura Stefani Joins FHH

By FHH Law|2014-10-06T15:27:25-05:00October 6th, 2014|Legal News|

Wilkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome! Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth is pleased to announce that Laura Stefani has joined us as Of Counsel. She’ll be focusing on emerging technologies, wireless, broadband, and RF equipment issues. Laura is no stran...

Will FCC Extend MVPD Rules to Online Video Providers – Including Retransmission Consent Fees and Program Access Rules?

By David Oxenford|2014-10-06T10:00:23-05:00October 6th, 2014|Legal News|

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 suggested that the FCC was considering extending the definition of a Multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD) to over-the-top video providers … Continue Reading

Medical Body Area Networks Expand to Untether More Patients

By Peter Tannenwald|2014-10-05T17:22:13-05:00October 5th, 2014|Legal News|

FCC tweaks two-year-old MBAN rules. Two years ago the Commission authorized Medical Body Area Network (MBAN) devices to operate in the 2360-2400 MHz region, immediately below the heavily-used unlicensed band that houses Bluetooth, and most Wi-Fi, along...

Marriott Whacked for $600,000 for War on Rogue Wi-Fi Hotspots

By Tony Lee|2014-10-05T12:31:20-05:00October 5th, 2014|Legal News|

Enforcement Bureau stretches meaning of “cause interference to” in order to reach the right result. The Enforcement Bureau has struck a blow for those who prefer to use smartphones to set up their own personal mobile hotspots when they&rsqu...

Hotels Jamming Wi-Fi Signals?

By CommLawCenter|2014-10-03T15:02:38-05:00October 3rd, 2014|Legal News|

By Scott R. Flick In the U.S., jamming communications signals is illegal. Over the years, I've written a number of posts about the FCC's persistent efforts to prevent jamming. Among these were fines and other actions taken against an Internet marke...

October Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters – Quarterly Issues Programs Lists and Children’s Television Reports, New Form for TV CP Applications, Comments on Captioning of Video Clips and Incentive Auction Reimbursement Form and More!

By David Oxenford|2014-10-03T09:41:53-05:00October 3rd, 2014|Legal News|

With regulatory fees behind us, October brings a number of the routine quarterly regulatory filing dates. October 10 for all broadcast stations, commercial and noncommercial, is the date by which your Quarterly Issues Programs lists, setting out the most important issues that faced your community in the last quarter and the programs that you broadcast … Continue Reading

TV Incentive Auction Moves Forward – FCC Estimates the Value of TV Stations and Clarifies the Interference Standard for Stations Who Remain After the Auction

By David Oxenford|2014-10-02T11:14:14-05:00October 2nd, 2014|Legal News|

There are more and more signs that the FCC is moving forward aggressively with its “incentive auction” to purchase TV stations so that their licenses can be cancelled and their spectrum sold to and reused by wireless companies for wireless broadband purposes. In two significant actions this week, the FCC gave broadcasters a first peek … Continue Reading