This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters:  February 10, 2025 to February 14, 2025

By |2025-02-16T08:31:41-06:00February 16th, 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 discussed the FCC Enforcement Advisory released last week warning of payola concerns in coercing... 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…

This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: September 11-September 15, 2023

By |2023-09-17T07:51:44-05:00September 17th, 2023|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. This coming week, Annual Regulatory Fees must be paid by commercial broadcast stations through the FCC’s CORES database by 11:59... Continue Reading…

This Week in Broadcast Regulation – October 31, 2020 to November 6, 2020

By |2020-11-07T23:33:57-06:00November 7th, 2020|Legal News|

While last Tuesday’s elections may well affect broadcast regulation in the future, there were several regulatory developments in the last week of immediate significance to broadcasters.  Here is a summary of some of those developments, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.... Continue Reading…

Buyers of Broadcast Stations Through Stock Transfer Beware – Liability for Fines of Prior Owner Can Still be Imposed After the Transfer

By |2015-12-02T10:49:53-06:00December 2nd, 2015|Legal News|

In a recent decision, the FCC made clear that when there is a transfer of control of a station through the sale of the stock of the licensee company, the new owners are not absolved of any FCC violations that may have taken place when the old owners controlled the company. In this case, the… Continue Reading

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