This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters:  March 19, 2022 to March 25, 2022

By |2022-03-27T09:03:42-05:00March 27th, 2022|Legal News|

Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the last week, and two important deadlines in the week ahead, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FCC Enforcement Bureau this week announced its latest round of random... Continue Reading…

Political Broadcasting Issues that Radio and TV Stations Should Be Thinking About Now As We Approach a Very Active Election Season

By |2015-12-03T11:05:42-06:00December 3rd, 2015|Legal News|

With the broadcast and cable news (and the monologs of TV talk show hosts) already dominated by discussions of the 2016 elections, broadcasters thoughts may be turning to that election and the expected flood of money that may come into the political process.  We are, after all, only two months away from the first ballots in… Continue Reading

Questions about the Truth of Political Ads, What’s a Broadcaster to Do When a Candidate Complains About an Attack Ad? – The No Censorship Rule for Candidate Ads

By |2014-09-23T10:48:32-05:00September 23rd, 2014|Legal News|

Every election season there is the same refrain from candidates who are attacked in political ads run on broadcast stations – that ad is unfair and the broadcaster who is running it should take it off the air.  Sometime, that request is sent by a lawyer with threats to bring legal actions if the broadcaster … Continue Reading

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