This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters:  September 8, 2025 to September 12, 2025

By |2025-09-13T21:22:01-05:00September 13th, 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 highlighted the FCC Public Notices and Fact Sheets detailing the procedures for paying broadcasters’... Continue Reading…

No Wholesale Pricing Disclosures to be Required in Drug Advertising – Appeals Court Upholds Lower Court Rejection of HHS Requirement

By |2020-06-18T10:57:36-05:00June 18th, 2020|Legal News|

It appears that there will be no requirement imposed on television and cable ads to include disclosures revealing the wholesale prices of prescription drugs in any advertising for those drugs.  We wrote about the decision from the US Department of Health and Human Service to impose such a requirement on television ads here, and we... Continue Reading…

Court Overturns Requirement that Prescription Drug Advertisers Include Price Information in TV Ads

By |2019-07-16T16:08:11-05:00July 16th, 2019|Legal News|

Last week, a federal District Court ruled that the US Department of Health and Human Services did not have the authority to require that drug manufacturers include pricing information on their television commercials.  We wrote about that requirement, here – a requirement that was supposed to go into effect this summer.  However, the District Court...… Continue Reading

What Do New Drug Ad Price Disclosures Mean for TV?

By |2019-05-15T10:26:24-05:00May 15th, 2019|Legal News|

Last week, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) adopted a new rule mandating, at some point later this year after Paperwork Reduction Act approval, that prescription drug advertising on TV contain certain price information. Specifically, HHS will require TV ads for prescription drugs covered by Medicare or Medicaid to include the list...… Continue Reading

Go to Top