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April 8, 2024
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As we reported a few months ago, the Copyright Royalty Board (“CRB”) has been busy trying to decide how much services that stream music over the internet must pay in royalties to SoundExchange for the period starting in 2016. Just in the nick of time, the CRB has released its decision and rules. The biggest […]
Read More →TBA September: annual regulatory fees due. September 1, 2015: deadline for Class A television stations who are not operating in digital to transition and terminate analog service. Analog service must cease as of 11:59pm local time on 9/1/15. September 2, 2015 – 6pm EDT – September 8, 2015 8am EDT: FCC will shut down access […]
Read More →In an unusual move, but one apparently aimed at a major overhaul of FCC computer, telephone and other information systems, the FCC has announced a 7-day temporary shutdown or reduced service period of its website, databases and filing systems. Yes, that scares us too, but the FCC claims it is necessary for a “significant IT […]
Read More →Last month, we noted the fast-approaching deadline for commercial stations to file biennial ownership reports, and pointed to the existing rule setting November 1 as that deadline. We also took the occasion to note that in 2011 and 2013, the FCC extended the deadline by a month, primarily because of how time-consuming the form can […]
Read More →On a 3-2 vote divided on party lines, the FCC adopted a controversial auction bidding procedures public notice in early August, setting the stage for the first steps of the TV incentive auction to begin on March 29, 2016. A few days later, the Chair of the Spectrum Auction Task Force, Gary Epstein blogged about […]
Read More →The Media Bureau has issued a reminder to all Class A television stations that September 1, 2015 is the deadline for transitioning to digital, and terminate analog service. Class A television stations must cease all analog transmissions as of 11:59pm local time Tuesday, September 1, 2015. If Class A stations have not completed constructing their […]
Read More →Some reform to old broadcast station regulations is finally closer to reality. At its September meeting, the FCC plans to vote on an order to allow broadcasters to publicize contest rules on station websites. And Chairman Wheeler has committed to issuing an AM Revitalization order this fall providing some regulatory relief to AM stations, though […]
Read More →Despite strong opposition by the broadcast industry, the FCC decided in early August to keep at least one TV channel in the post-auction repacked TV spectrum vacant for white space devices and wireless microphones. The three Democratic FCC Commissioners went a step further, tentatively concluding that a second TV channel should be preserved to mitigate […]
Read More →July 30, 2015: new EAS rules take effect except for broadcaster requirement to provide EAS information for database. August 1, 2015: AM & FM Stations in North Carolina and South Carolina: if full-time employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and place same in public file as well as post on station website. […]
Read More →These past 30 days have been a bit of high theater for the FCC’s push toward starting the TV incentive auction in early 2016. The highlight was a mid-July last minute public disclosure of a very limited number of auction scenarios, just before a vote by the Commission on its auction procedures. That brought howls […]
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