This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters:  November 24, 2025 to November 28, 2025

By |2025-11-30T10:27:48-06:00November 30th, 2025|Legal News|

Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. On our Broadcast Law Blog, we posted our monthly look ahead at the regulatory dates and deadlines for broadcasters falling... Continue Reading…

FCC Enforcement Monitor July 2025

By |2025-07-31T13:27:46-05:00July 31st, 2025|Legal News|

Pillsbury’s communications lawyers have published the FCC Enforcement Monitor monthly since 1999 to inform our clients of notable FCC enforcement actions against FCC license holders and others.  This month’s issue includes: TV Group Owner Enters $222,500 Consent Decree Over Pornographic Broadcast Hack Kentucky Radio Station License Revoked Over Unpaid Regulatory Fees FCC Threatens Chinese Telecom […]

$222,500 Penalty for TV Indecency – Reminder to Secure Access to Broadcast Product

By |2025-07-11T11:55:30-05:00July 11th, 2025|Legal News|

The FCC this week announced a Consent Decree with a TEGNA subsidiary to settle an indecency complaint against a Spokane television station.  The FCC received a complaint about a “pornographic video” which the station admitted had run on a TV screen behind the station’s weathercaster that was visible to the home viewer for approximately 13... Continue Reading…

$222,500 Penalty for TV Indecency – Reminder to Secure Access to Broadcast Product

By |2025-07-11T11:55:30-05:00July 11th, 2025|Legal News|

The FCC this week announced a Consent Decree with a TEGNA subsidiary to settle an indecency complaint against a Spokane television station.  The FCC received a complaint about a “pornographic video” which the station admitted had run on a TV screen behind the station’s weathercaster that was visible to the home viewer for approximately 13... Continue Reading…

The Last Three Weeks in Regulation for Broadcasters: December 18, 2023 to January 5, 2024

By |2024-01-07T10:36:02-06:00January 7th, 2024|Legal News|

Expecting quiet weeks, we took the holidays off from providing our weekly summary of regulatory actions of interest to broadcasters.  But, during that period, there actually were many regulatory developments.  Here are some of those developments, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your... Continue Reading…

The Past Two Weeks in Broadcast Regulation: December 18, 2021 to December 31, 2021

By |2022-01-02T10:09:03-06:00January 2nd, 2022|Legal News|

Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the last two weeks, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FCC released the results of the August 11 Nationwide EAS Test, finding that, compared to the 2019 test... Continue Reading…

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