Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 4, 2015

'We are in March, which means that the minds of many turn to basketball, specifically March Madness as the NCAA hosts its annual championship tournament to crown college basketball’s national champion. And many broadcasters want to take advantage of the tournament to promote their stations or the products of their sponsors. Because of this inclination, we post this warning each year (see, for instance, here and here ) – just like we do around the Super Bowl or the Olympics – these championship n

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Paralegal Mentor

MARCH 11, 2015

What does the word "office mean to you? Is it just space you're occupying while you wait for something better to come along. or until it's time to retire? Is it just a place to go each day, put in the required hours, do the necessary work, head out at quitting time, and pick up a check on payday? Or is it your home away from home? A very personal space filled with memories, laughter, and co-workers who seem like family?

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 16, 2015

'The Songwriter’s Equity Act has once again been introduced in Congress (see our article about that Act when it was introduced in the last Congress). It proposes to make changes in provisions of the Copyright Act governing the way that songwriters are paid for the use of their musical compositions – with the obvious intent of raising the songwriters’ compensation.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 24, 2015

'The FCC set a new record for a fine for a single violation of its indecency rules – $325,000 for a 3 second visual image of a penis run in a corner of a TV screen a single time on a TV station during its 6 PM news (a full description of the image is in the FCC’s Notice of Apparent Liability but, so as to not trigger too many spam filters, I will omit any more details in this article).

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2015

'The FCC has announced that it plans to hold an auction to award construction permits allowing the winners to build new FM radio stations. 131 total channels on which bids can be placed are included in the list of channels to be auctioned – with most being in the state of Texas. The auction is tentatively scheduled to begin on July 23. Working backward, that would mean that initial applications would likely be due sometime in May, and “upfront” payments equal to or greater than the minimum payme

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2015

'April is one of those months with many routine FCC obligations. Quarterly Issues Programs lists need to be in your public file by the 10 th of the month. This is an obligation for all full-power broadcast stations – commercial or noncommercial. Similarly, all TV stations have an obligation to submit their Children’s Television Reports on FCC Form 398 demonstrating compliance with the obligations to provide educational and informational programming directed to children, and at the same time put

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2015

'The FCC two years ago adopted a rule requiring that television stations that provide emergency information visually (e.g. through open captions or crawls), outside of news programming, convert that emergency information into audio and run that audio on SAP channels (secondary audio programming channels – usually used for Spanish language translations of English-language programs).

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 3, 2015

'In a decision released yesterday , the FCC renewed the licenses of three TV stations held by large broadcast groups, rejecting Petitions to Deny filed by a citizen’s organization arguing that the children’s educational and informational programming run by these stations was not sufficiently educational or informational to meet the requirement that stations run three hours per week of educational and informational programing.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 19, 2015

'A group of radio broadcasters have asked the FCC to agree to waive some provisions of the current sponsorship identification rules of the FCC to permit stations that have sponsored music or sports programming to move some of the required sponsorship identification online (the request is available here ). This is to provide listeners with a more detailed and accessible means of determining the sponsor of certain broadcast programming.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 12, 2015

'The FCC has extended the Reply Comment deadline in its proceeding looking at whether to apply some or all of the regulations applicable to multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs – cable and satellite TV) to over-the-top video providers who provide multiple channels of video programming in a linear fashion (i.e. like a cable system, with the programs all being served up to the audience at the same time, rather than on-demand as would Netflix or YouTube).

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 12, 2015

'The FCC continues to take its show on the road, announcing incentive auction seminars for TV broadcasters in several new cities. At these seminars, FCC officials meet with TV broadcasters in a general meeting to outline the mechanics of the proposed incentive auction to reclaim a portion of the TV band to be resold to wireless users for wireless broadband purposes, and the subsequent “repacking” when remaining TV stations will be assigned channels on which to operate in a smaller TV band.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 2, 2015

'March is one of those rare months on the broadcast calendar when there are few routine regulatory deadlines for broadcasters. As we are winding down in the television license renewal cycle, the month’s only license renewal obligations for TV broadcasters are the pre-filing license renewal announcements on the 1 st and 16 th of the month for stations in Delaware and Pennsylvania, whose renewals are due on April 1, and the post-filing announcements for TV stations in New York and New Jersey.

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Paralegal Mentor

MARCH 10, 2015

Fortune magazine has released its latest list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. Fortune based its rankings on a survey sent to a random sample of employees, as well as a "culture audit" that gathers information about pay, benefits and workplace programs. The five law firms that made this list (and why) are: Baker Donelson (No. 30). Its Fortune description: “Southern law firm has a five-to-10-minute meeting called the Daily Docket every morning to keep everyone on the same page.

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Paralegal Mentor

MARCH 5, 2015

Heidi Stephens is a freelance paralegal who resides in Griffin, Georgia. Her clients include Imerys, eMerchantBroker.com, and various other companies. Heidi has an AS/Paralegal Studies from Liberty University and will receive her BS/Paralegal Studies from Liberty University in 2015. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. What prompted you to choose a paralegal career? I love the research.

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Paralegal Mentor

MARCH 3, 2015

A plea for advice came to me this week from a paralegal I’ll call “Mary.” Here’s the story (note, the names have been changed to protect the innocent!): "Mary" graduated from an ABA approved paralegal program and has worked at Mega Lawyers in Anytown, USA for five years. Her title: paralegal. “Susie” is Mary’s co-worker. Susie graduated from the same ABA approved program as Mary.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 25, 2015

'In a decision of the FCC Media Bureau’s Audio Division that may be of interest to the more technically minded broadcasters, the Commission found that an FM station’s supposedly nondirectional FM antenna should be treated as directional. This decision was in response to a complaint from another broadcaster on the same channel, arguing that the broadcaster in question was exceeding its licensed effective radiated power in the direction of the complaining station (which was also the direction of D

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