Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The FCC on Tuesday voted to abolish the 44 year old requirement that commercial broadcast stations retain, in their public file, letters (and emails) from the public dealing with station operations (see the full Order here ). As noted by the Commissioners in their comments at the FCC meeting (and as we suggested here and here when this proposal was first introduced), these documents were rarely if ever accessed by the public.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Forced Migration After Paris COP21: Evaluating the “Climate Change Displacement Coordination Facility” By Phillip Dane Warren, Columbia Law Student and Former Sabin Center Intern. Climate change represents, perhaps, the greatest challenge of the twenty-first century. As temperatures and sea levels rise, governments around the world will face massive and unprecedented human displacement that international law currently has no mechanism to address.

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LegalSecretariesRock

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Every year, I pledge to get organized. And every year - well, I won't say that I fail, but I often fall short. This year, I had my head all wrapped around the Planner idea. Like, back to paper, going to keep planners in several places and never miss another deadline or appointment. Needless to say, it's February 1st, and I've only written one thing in one of my planners.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced yesterday that he plans to test a new FCC procedure – releasing drafts of FCC orders to be considered at future FCC meetings at the same time as the proposed agenda for the meeting is released, weeks in advance of the meeting. On the draft agenda for the February 23 rd meeting are two items of interest for broadcasters, and draft orders for both of these items were released yesterday – one for radio and one for TV.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

While there is a new administration in charge at the FCC, there are still those regular regulatory dates that broadcasters must face, as well as dates unique to pending proceedings that arise from time to time. Before we get to the February dates, we should remind broadcasters of those January 31 dates that they should be considering, including the deadline for signing up for the Interim License Agreement for those radio stations playing music represented by the new performing rights organizatio

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