Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 7, 2016

A few weeks ago, we wrote here about the risks of using in advertising and promotions the Olympic trademarks , symbols or marks that may suggest an association with the Olympic Games. The Olympic Committee recently demonstrated just how serious it is about its marks, sending a letter to non-Olympic sponsor companies, warning them that they “may not post about the Trials or Games on their corporate social media accounts,” and may not use the “USOC’s trademarks in hashtags such as #Rio2016 or

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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 9, 2016

In a decision released last week , the FCC made clear that stations that have long periods in which they are not operated (perhaps being put back into operation for a day or two every year to avoid the automatic cancellation of their licenses) are not operating in the public interest , and are putting their license in jeopardy. In last week’s decision, the station had been essentially silent for most of the last 4 years of its license renewal period (sometimes forgetting to ask for FCC permissio

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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 9, 2016

In recent days, there have been a number of broadcast trade press articles about new regulations that have gone into effect for e-cig advertising. We wrote about the FDA proceeding which dealt with these rules here. There appears to be much confusion over what the new rules require, and what is effective now and what will become effective after an FDA rulemaking to determine the specifics of the requirements for e-cig advertising.

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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 8, 2016

With the national presidential conventions complete, and most of the state primaries for Congressional, state and local offices either behind us or to occur in the next few weeks, the most concentrated period for the purchase of political advertising on broadcast stations is now upon us, to peak in the late October/early November frenzy. While most of the principles governing the FCC rules on political broadcasting are relatively established (and many are summarized in our Political Broadcasting

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