Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2014

'The FCC has recently staked out a policy that the any use of EAS tones, or tones that sound like those alerts, outside of a real emergency, will lead to big fines. Since the beginning of the year, the FCC has issued notices proposing fines totaling over $2.2 million against some of the biggest media companies in the country for such violations (see this decision proposing a $300,000 fine against Turner Broadcasting System Inc. for tones mimicking the EAS alerts that were included in a commerci

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 12, 2014

'An active political broadcasting season is already upon us, with things more likely to get even more hectic between now and November. Are you ready to handle all of the FCC’s political broadcasting obligations? We’ve prepared an updated Guide to the FCC’s political broadcasting rules in a question and answer format, and it is available here. We hope that this Political Broadcasting Guide will give you a primer on many of the questions that arise in any political broadcasting season so that y

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2014

'The agenda is out , and the FCC’s likely action on their Quadrennial Review of the multiple ownership rules now seems to be much clearer. And the decision seems likely to follow the rumors circulating in Washington for weeks (about which we have written here and here ), with new regulatory wrinkles added to those previously suggested. According to a blog post by the FCC Chairman , the plans are for the FCC to attribute JSAs where one TV broadcaster sells more than 15% of the ad time on anothe

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