Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 26, 2012

The FCC has once again proposed a $10,000 fine against a college radio station missing quarterly issues/program lists in the public inpsection file. This time, the culprit is Rollins College , a small liberal arts college in Florida with 1700 students. We know that $10,000 is the "base forfeiture" for failure to maintain a complete public inspection file, and this is not the first time the FCC has proposed this fine for a college radio station.

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The Paralegal Resource

JULY 16, 2012

Traditionally, the task of legal writing has been assumed by the attorney. Increasingly now, however, paralegals are being asked by their supervising attorneys to prepare a variety of legal documents.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 29, 2012

On Friday, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit followed the FCC's lead in denying the NAB's request for stay of the requirement for TV stations to post their public inspection files online. Accordingly, that rule goes into effect on Thursday, August 2, 2012. Effective that date, TV stations should post all new public file documents online in the FCC database created for this purpose.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 12, 2012

As we noted a few days ago, TV stations must begin posting their public inspection files online at an FCC hosted database beginning August 2, 2012. To facilitate this process, the FCC has announced that it will host a public demonstration of the database created for this purpose at 10:00 am Eastern time on Tuesday, July 17th. For those who cannot attend in person, the FCC's demonstration of the public file database will be streamed online at www.fcc.gov/live.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 21, 2012

The FCC has released its Report and Order showing the annual regulatory fees due for the 2012 fiscal year. Although the due date has not yet been announced, it will likely be in September. The fees are intended to recover the Commission's cost of operations, reported to be nearly $340 million. Fees must be paid by all commercial FCC licensees and permittees as of October 1, 2011 (the first day of the 2012 fiscal year).

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The Paralegal Resource

JULY 26, 2012

Many people are familiar with a scenario where a person has died and left his or her estate to a family member or loved one.

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