Don’t Forget September 15 Deadline For Broadcasters to Assure That Buyers of Program Time Are Not Foreign Governments or Their Agents

By |2022-09-13T10:40:44-05:00September 13th, 2022|Legal News|

With so much focus on the upcoming regulatory fee deadline, broadcasters may well overlook another more imminent deadline – Thursday, September 15 is the deadline for broadcasters to have assured themselves that no buyer of program time on their stations is a foreign government or an agent of a foreign government.  As we wrote here,... Continue Reading…

New Rules on the Identification of Foreign Government-Provided Programs Affects All Broadcasters – Now in Effect  

By |2022-03-18T11:17:12-05:00March 18th, 2022|Legal News|

The FCC this week announced that broadcasters must now comply with new rules designed to identify when programming is run on U.S. stations that was provided by a foreign governmental entity pursuant to a lease of airtime.  While this seems like a narrow purpose, the new rules will impose a burden on broadcasters.  Because of... Continue Reading…

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