Three-day program in San Francisco will feature FHH’s Harry Cole along with other eminent FCC practitioners providing insight into All Things FCC. Attention, all you Friends of CommLawBlog! If you’re looking for an excuse to travel to San ...
Our regular readers know that the FCC has developed – and obtained OMB approval of – Form 2100, Schedule 381. That’s the form that will have to be completed and filed, at some point in the upcoming months, by (a) all full-power and Cl...
At its Open Meeting scheduled for next Thursday, May 21, 2015, the FCC will consider extending emergency information accessibility rules to “second screen” devices such as computers, tablets, and smartphones. The contemplated Second Report and Order and Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking would expand the class of entities subject to the FCC’s accessibility rules (adopted […]
The FCC has reprised a 2011 Show Cause order, but with a difference Whoa, déjà vu! An Order to Show Cause and Notice of Opportunity for Hearing (Show Cause/HDO)issued last month may look eerily familiar to you. And it should, because it&r...
Almost a year ago we reported that the then-new AWS-3 service rules had become effective except for a handful of sections that couldn’t kick in at that point for various reasons. One of the sections that remained in limbo was Section 2.106, which...
The Swami testifies in D.C. One of the most hotly debated topics at the state and local levels around the country is that of police body cameras. Should they be used? If so, when should they be turned on and when should recording not occur du...
Appeals, reconsiderations, judicial lotteries – there’s never a dull moment when it comes to net neutrality. Just because the FCC finally released its behemoth Report and Order (R&O) in the net neutrality proceeding last month, don&rsqu...
Alien ownership conditions imposed on Internet radio service when it tries to buy small-town radio station This is the story of how Pandora, in an effort to cut its copyright royalty costs, managed to saddle itself with a complex array of ownership rep...
FHH had the pleasure of participating in Thurgood Marshall Academy’s Shadow Day Program, which provides students from the D.C. Charter School the opportunity to meet with local attorneys and get a sense of what being a lawyer is all about. We wer...