Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 17, 2014

'We wrote last week about the FCC’s determination of which applicants are to be preferred in several groups of mutually exclusive applications for new Low Power FM stations. We warned full-power FM broadcasters to review the preferred applicants as broadcasters have 30 days from last week’s public notice to file petitions to deny against such LPFM applications citing interference concerns or other issues with those applications.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 15, 2014

'The FCC’s Media Bureau yesterday released a Public Notice asking for comment on a proposal to extend the construction deadline until September 1, 2015 for any construction permit for a digital LPTV station or a TV translator that will expire before that date. September 1, 2015 is the deadline for all TV translators and LPTV stations to convert to digital or to cease operations.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 15, 2014

'The FCC fees that must be paid by commercial broadcasters when they file most applications with the Commission went up as of July 3. See our article here about the July 3 effective date , and our article here about the adoption of the new higher fees. The FCC yesterday released a full guide to those fees – setting out how much broadcasters must pay when seeking any particular action from the FCC (including applications for approvals of assignments and transfers , construction permits , STA re

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 13, 2014

'The FCC on Friday voted to extend its rule about captioning TV video repurposed to the Internet so as to cover not only full television programs, but also clips of those programs. While the rules already require that TV programming that is captioned when broadcast to be captioned when retransmitted in full over the Internet, the new rules, to be phased in as described below, require that clips of TV programs that were broadcast with captions also be captioned when repurposed for online use.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 18, 2014

'Public interest groups are actively watching broadcast political advertising which could make this a very interesting year for broadcasters. The Sunlight Foundation , which only two months ago filed complaints against 11 television stations for alleged inadequacies in their online political files (see our summary here ), has now filed two new complaints alleging that television stations violated FCC rules in recent elections by not identifying the true sponsor of political ads.

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