Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

The draft NPRM, which is tentatively on the FCC’s agenda for the September 29, 2022 monthly open meeting, indicates that a review and update of these rules is necessary due to the digital transition, the incentive auction repack, current technology, and changes in Commission practices. Circuit decision.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 24, 2022

July 18, 2022 was the reply comment deadline for the FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the its proposed regulatory fees for fiscal year 2022. See the July 19 entry on our Broadcast Law Blog for further discussion of the FCC’s developing practices in dealing with stations that are not continuously operating.

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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 7, 2022

The FCC issued a Public Notice reminding FM broadcasters, LPTV and TV translator operators, and MVPDs, of the September 6, 2022 deadline to submit all remaining invoices to the TV Broadcaster Relocation Fund. This fund is to reimburse these entities for costs incurred because of the television incentive auction.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

On September 2, the FCC released a Report and Order (“R&O”) and Notice of Inquiry adopting the regulatory fee schedule for fiscal year 2022 and seeking comment on issues related to the FCC’s allocation of indirect “full time equivalents” for its employees. And for full power TV broadcasters, the R&O adopts a factor of.84

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 3, 2022

As we wrote on our Broadcast Law Blog in 2020 in connection with the passage of an earlier version of this bill, the House action should not be seen as a signal for broadcasters to start accepting marijuana advertising unless and until the Senate and President also act on this legislation.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 27, 2022

Join us for a live webinar at [link] to view our live webinars recorded every Wednesday at 1:00 PM CT/2:00 PM ET. Included is a Q&A with our speaker. Follow us at @LTRC for updates on new webinars, CLEs, and our blog lawtechnologytoday.org for updates on the latest legal tech trends, tips, and news.

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LawSites

JANUARY 28, 2022

The 2022 State of the Industry Report takes a deep dive into these questions, surveying lawyers, consultants, software and service providers, and others to paint a picture of where the industry is today and what trends will dominate in the year ahead. . Thank You To Our Sponsors.

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LawSites

JANUARY 28, 2022

The 2022 State of the Industry Report takes a deep dive into these questions, surveying lawyers, consultants, software and service providers, and others to paint a picture of where the industry is today and what trends will dominate in the year ahead. . Thank You To Our Sponsors.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Letters to schedule these visits will be sent by both overnight mail and email to the entity’s reimbursement point of contact and counsel of record, and visits are expected to start next month and continue through 2022. Even though the stay was denied, the new rules are not yet effective while undergoing a Paperwork Reduction Act review.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 17, 2022

For more on this decision, see the article in our Broadcast Law Blog, here. This week, we published on our Broadcast Law Blog an article about two new performing rights organizations that are seeking royalties for the public performance of comedy recordings.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 20, 2022

Stations with questions on the new rules should read our post at the Broadcast Law Blog and reach out to their FCC attorney. ( News Release ) ( Public Notice ) ( Report and Order ). See more on these changes in this article on our Broadcast Law Blog. ( Federal Register ).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 23, 2023

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law posted its Summer/Fall 2022 Semi-Annual Report, which includes a su mmary of the Center’s key activities between June and December 2022. Amy Turner has taken on a leading role in advising local governments on the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). It is available for download here.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 27, 2022

These stations have until May 5, 2022 to prepare and upload their responses to their online public files. See our post on the Broadcast Law Blog for more information, and read the audit letter setting out all the requirements for the audit response and the list of audited stations, here. Broadcast Law Blog ).

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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 21, 2022

On August 19, 2022, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau issued the second set of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) audit letters for 2022. The deadline for stations to upload their responses to their FCC-hosted online public inspection file is October 7, 2022. We mentioned that case in last week’s summary of regulatory actions.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Every Wednesday, we’ll be posting a new report from one of our experts, so stay tuned! The results of the 2022 ABA Legal Technology Resource Center’s Legal Technology Survey are in. Overall, 27% of respondents in 2022 said their firm website was managed by internal marketing staff, up from 18% in 2019. Social media.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 24, 2022

Interested parties must file comments by May 23, 2022. Oppositions to those comments are due by June 7, 2022. Replies to those oppositions are due by June 17, 2022. ( Public Notice ).

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 15, 2022

Read our blog post about the December 2020 decision, here. On our Broadcast Law Blog, we wrote last week about the FCC’s current role in regulating the Internet ( Blog Post ). Legislation has been introduced in Congress to update the CALM Act.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Circuit’s July 2022 ruling in National Association of Broadcasters v. FCC , which rejected the requirement that broadcast licensees independently check two federal databases to verify whether an airtime lessee is a “foreign governmental entity” (see our Broadcast Law Blog article on the Court’s decision here ).

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Anna Eshoo (D-CA) introduced the Identifying Propaganda on Our Airwaves (IPA) Act, which would essentially undo the recent D.C. Circuit decision in National Association of Broadcasters v.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 29, 2022

For more information, see our blog post on these issues, here , and the Report and Order, here. For more on this further notice, see our Blog article here , and our article here on the end of CDBS filings. New NAB President & CEO Curtis LeGeyt said the recusal promise satisfies NAB.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The FCC also announced that broadcast licensees can look up their Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 regulatory fee amounts by logging onto the FCC’s website at [link] and clicking on the “View Fee Information and Exempt Status for any Broadcast Property” link. In some instances, it may be necessary to clear your browser before logging onto the website.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2022

Public comment on the FCC’s proposal is due July 5, 2022, with replies due by July 18 ( Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ). We recently wrote on our Broadcast Law Blog, here , about other landowners who received similar letters when they were identified as hosting pirate radio operations.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2022

The 15 groups of mutually exclusive applicants analyzed this week were all resolved through a “307(b) analysis,” a technical review as to whether one of the applicants will provide substantially more first or second noncommercial radio service than the other applicant (see our article describing the application of the 307(b) analysis here ).

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2022

The FCC announced a virtual event, the “Video Programming Accessibility Forum – Emergency Information,” to be held on October 6, 2022, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm ET. Our Broadcast Law Blog last week published its monthly look ahead at the regulatory dates of importance to broadcasters coming up in October.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

By a Public Notice issued on December 15, the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau told broadcasters to submit their annual Form One filings for calendar year 2022 in the online EAS Test Reporting System (“ETRS”) between January 3 and February 28, 2023. Comments are now due January 9, and reply comments are due January 24.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2022

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

See our article here for more on this review. We posted on our Broadcast Law Blog two articles on recent industry events: The first article, here , noted that, in certain markets, controversial ads from political candidates ran during last week’s Super Bowl.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 12, 2022

The FCC announced that requests for changes in the call letters of broadcast stations, previously requested in a stand-alone database, will be requested through the LMS database as of June 22, 2022. Comments are due by August 2, 2022. The old call letter reservation system will be decommissioned.

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LawTechnologyToday

JANUARY 26, 2022

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LawSites

JANUARY 7, 2022

Today is the first Legaltech Week of the new year — our weekly roundtable of journalists and bloggers — and we’re marking the occasion with a special program in which our panelists will reveal their picks of the top legal tech story of 2021 and their predictions for legal tech in 2022. Joe Patrice , editor, Above the Law.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2022

We wrote about the Washington State rules and this case on our Broadcast Law Blog, here. The Station was silent at the time its license was assigned, having gone silent on January 20, 2019, until January 6, 2020, and then again from November 11, 2021, to July 30, 2022 (i.e., million for the 822 violations found by the judge.

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ALPS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

On February 16, 2023, Ryan True began a discussion on the ALPS blog by asking this question: How Can We Take Better Care of Our Attorneys? Ryan cited the ALM's 2022 Mental Health Survey finding that 35% of attorneys answered "yes" to the simple question, "Do you feel depressed?”

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Broadcast Law Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

That publication sets the deadlines for public comment as December 23, 2022, for comments and January 23, 2023, for replies. We wrote more extensively about this proceeding on our Broadcast Law Blog. Comments are now due December 12, 2022, and reply comments are now due January 10, 2023. Licensed services in the 12.7

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 1, 2022

FEMA officials announced at the NAB Show that there will be no national EAS test in 2022. We wrote about the proposal for the return of that form, and the issues the FCC is considering, in an article on our Broadcast Law Blog, here. FEMA is planning for the next test to occur in the early part of 2023.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

See our post on the Broadcast Law Blog for more information. With Spotify and Joe Rogan’s podcast (and Neil Young’s decision to remove his music from the platform) in the news over the last couple of weeks, we wrote on the Broadcast Law Blog about some of the rights and royalty issues behind the story.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

In 2022, commercial webcasters, including broadcasters streaming their programming on the Internet, pay $.0022 We provided more information about this cost-of-living increase in an article on our Broadcast Law Blog, here. For more information on the lifting of that freeze, see our article here.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 31, 2022

We wrote, on our Broadcast Law Blog , about the three different legislative efforts now underway to lift any prohibitions on broadcasters running these ads from businesses in states where marijuana has been legalized. On Friday, we published our monthly article highlighting regulatory dates and deadlines for the coming month.

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