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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MyLegalAssistants

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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How To Become A Paralegal

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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LegalTalkNetwork

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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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 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At the FCC meeting yesterday, the FCC repealed, on a 3 to 2 vote, the main studio and studio staffing requirements for TV and radio broadcasters.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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