Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Last year, the FDA adopted requirements to tag advertisements for vaping and e-cig advertising with a warning that e-cigs contain nicotine and that nicotine is an addictive chemical. These requirements were to go into effect in 2018. In the last week, I have received several questions about these rules and their effective date. According to this FDA document (see the table on Page 5), released in August, the new disclosure obligations are still set to become effective on August 10, 2018.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

You’re Losing Money. Why hire a virtual assistant? Think about how many tasks you did today that lost you money. Did you do your own accounting? Your own retainers? Your own legal research? Any other mundane task that you could have delegated? Then you lost money. Hiring a virtual assistant can eliminate the money burn, and actually put money back into your pocket.

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

By Susan Saper Galamba. Statistics show that alcohol is the number one drug problem in the United States. It also tends to be a big problem in divorces. There has been a significant increase in cases in the last two or three years in which I have seen one spouse claim that the other spouse abused alcohol. Generally, the spouse I meet with claims that his or her spouse is an alcoholic.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

When you’re a new paralegal or even as a paralegal student, it can be hard to find primary authorities during the research phase of a case. Yet, that’s not always easy to do in some areas of law; and even if you find some things that you think might be primary authority, how do you know for sure? Computer-assisted legal research platforms, such as LexisNexis or WestLaw, aren’t cheap.

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OCTOBER 5, 2017

It happens to the best of us. And while I'm not sure when I first became aware of it, I'm fairly certain that once you reach the ripe old age of 40 it starts to peek at you in one form or another. Many of us "seasoned secretaries" (like myself) may have been too busy working hard to actually take note of the first time they realized that some of their attorneys don't just want the job done, they want someone who looks "perfect" doing it.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Yesterday, we previewed the FCC’s likely decision to significantly change its ownership rules for television owners – proposing to take actions including allowing TV duopolies in markets with fewer than 8 independent TV voices after the combination, allowing some combination of the Top 4 TV stations in certain markets, repealing the radio-TV cross-ownership rules, and repealing the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership prohibitions.

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Strictly Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

It’s hard to imagine a startup that does not collect some form of sensitive information in digital form, and the collection, use, and disclosure of such information is regulated under federal, state, and even international laws. The purpose of this post is to outline the legal framework that creates your obligations to safeguard customer data and the consequences of failing to comply with these laws.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

Attorneys and law firms need to focus on the world of online marketing, otherwise they are missing out on a large pool of potential clients. A Virtual Assistant well versed in the legal profession can help improve marketing efforts. As technology progresses, the business development activities for your online presence becomes increasingly more important to acquire new clients.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In a decision this week, the Florida Supreme Court rejected claims by Flo & Eddie (of the 1960s band the Turtles) that there was a common law public performance right in pre-1972 sound recordings in the state of Florida (the opinion is available here ). The Florida court, after examining numerous avenues of argument, concluded that the establishment of such a right was a legislative task.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2017

According to the testimony given yesterday by FCC Chairman Pai at an oversight hearing before the House of Representatives Communications and Technology Subcommittee, the FCC is likely to release today a draft of its order on reconsideration of last year’s FCC decision on its Quadrennial Review of its broadcast ownership rules (the rules restricting the number of media outlets that one company can own in any geographic market).

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2017

At the FCC meeting yesterday, the FCC repealed, on a 3 to 2 vote, the main studio and studio staffing requirements for TV and radio broadcasters. The final order, here , was substantially unchanged from the draft we described when it was released last month. Broadcasters need no longer have a main studio or even locate employees in their service areas, but must continue to serve the needs of their community, reflect that service in quarterly issues programs lists, and maintain a toll-free number

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2017

For well over four years, television stations have not been able to file applications to upgrade their technical facilities as the FCC froze such applications as it wanted to preserve a stable database of TV facilities while it conducted the Incentive Auction and implemented the repacking of the TV band. For TV stations affected by the repacking, the FCC has opened two windows allowing repacked stations to change and maximize their technical facilities on their new channels, the second of which

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2017

In these last few weeks before the many municipal elections that will be occurring in November in states across the country, I have recently received several questions about a broadcaster’s legal obligations toward write-in candidates who want to run advertising on a radio or television station. Under FCC precedent, all legally qualified candidates (including those running for state and local offices, see our article here ) must be provided lowest unit rates , equal opportunities to purchase adv

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2017

The United States Court of Appeals yesterday issued an order denied the appeal of an FCC order that rejected a requirement that multilingual EAS alerts be provided in every market. We wrote about the FCC’s proceeding here and here. The Court upheld the FCC’s decision as reasonable, finding that the Commission did not have enough evidence to determine how such alerts should be implemented on a nationwide basis, and noting that the FCC was still reviewing whether to adopt requirements that broadc

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2017

The comment dates have now been set on the FCC’s proposal to abolish the requirement that licensees of certain classes of broadcast stations (including translators and auxiliary stations) maintain a paper copy of the FCC rules. We wrote about that proposal, one of the first actions of Chairman Pai under the Modernization of Media Regulation initiative, here and here.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

In addition to the elimination of the main studio rule (about which we wrote here ), another media item is proposed for consideration at the FCC’s October 24 meeting. A draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) was released earlier this week proposing two changes in FCC requirements – neither change, in and of itself, offering any fundamental modifications of significant regulation, but both showing that this Commission is looking to eliminate bothersome burdens on broadcasters where those burd

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With the recent hurricanes and last night’s tragedy in Las Vegas, the FCC Public Notice issued last week reminding all video programmers of the importance of making emergency information accessible to all viewers seems very timely. The public notice serves as a good refresher on all of the obligations of video programmers designed to make emergency information available to members of the viewing audience who may have auditory or visual impairments that may make this information harder to receive

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The beginning of a calendar quarter always brings numerous regulatory obligations, and October is one of those months with a particularly full set of obligations. All full-power broadcasters, commercial and noncommercial, must complete their Quarterly Issues Programs Lists and place these reports into their public inspection files by October 10. These reports are the FCC’s only official record of how a station served its community.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The alphabet soup of organizations that collect royalties for playing music has never been easy to keep straight, and today royalty issues sometimes seem even more daunting with new players like GMR (see our articles here , here and here ) and arguments over issues like fractional licensing that only a music lawyer could love (see our articles here and here ).

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The FCC yesterday released the agenda for its October 24 th Open Meeting , as well as draft orders of the matters to be considered at that meeting. For broadcasters, the single most significant proposal was a draft order ( available here ) to abolish the requirement that a broadcast station maintain a main studio in close proximity to its city of license that is open to the public and staffed during normal business hours.

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

Apollo 11 Launch – July 16, 1969. “We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” – President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. President Kennedy uttered those words during his famous “ We Choose to Go to the Moon ” speech from Rice University in Houston, Texas on September 12, 1962.

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