Sat.Mar 29, 2014 - Fri.Apr 04, 2014

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FCC Attributes JSAs, to Examine SSAs and Network Nonduplication and Syndex Rules – A Return to the 1980s?

Broadcast Law Blog

'The FCC meeting yesterday proposed to attribute Joint Sales Agreements (making them “count” for multiple ownership purposes – meaning that one broadcaster can’t do a JSA with another station unless it can own the other station). The Commission also apparently kicked the can down the road on all other multiple ownership matters – not changing the local TV ownership rules or amending the newspaper broadcast cross-ownership restrictions, instead deciding to further consider any

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Best Practices for Starting Your Own Paralegal Services

The Paralegal Resource

While the law firms and legal departments across the nation adopt measures to counter recession by cutting overhead costs and delegating their work to freelancing paralegals, it?s time for the paralegal force to make hay while the sun shines.

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Details of the FCC Decision Prohibiting the Joint Negotiation of Retransmission Consent By Local TV Stations and Starting Proceeding to Examine Syndex and Network Nonduplication Protections

Broadcast Law Blog

'While we are waiting for the full text of the FCC’s decision taken Monday on the multiple ownership rules , rolling one Quadrennial Review into another and prohibiting most Joint Sales Agreements , we can look in more detail at the FCC’s decision on retransmission consent issues. We wrote about the historical background of both of these issues earlier this week.