Television

At its March 2023 Open Meeting, the FCC adopted a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Notice”) proposing to expand to all DMAs the audio description requirements currently applicable to...

The FCC’s Office of Economics and Analytics has released a Working Paper (the “Paper”) examining the ownership diversity of commercial full-power television stations.  The Paper reviewed ownership data collected by...

The Commission has announced a January 6, 2023, effective date for the rules adopted in a recent Report and Order (the “Order”) updating FCC references to a new Nielsen publication—the...

Over the last several months the FCC has been taking steps in an “ongoing effort to ensure that its rules are current,” particularly as applied to TV broadcasters.  First, in...

We write today with a reminder for Association Members that it’s that time of year for television stations to file claims for copyright royalties for “distant” carriage of their locally...

We write to remind commercial full-power and Class A television broadcasters that the deadline for filing their annual Children’s Television Programming Reports and Commercial Time Limits Certifications will be here...

Next Wednesday, December 1, 2021, marks another important deadline for those digital full power, Class A, low power, and TV translator licensees (as well as permittees operating pursuant to an...

The broadcast industry—the Big Four Television Networks, specifically—scored a significant victory over Locast earlier this week in the Networks’ copyright infringement lawsuit against the streaming service.  In response to the...

A collection of recent FCC Media Bureau releases have run the gamut from simply admonishing several stations (admonishments: 1, 2, 3) to proposing fines ranging from $9,000, to $15,000, to...

We write today with a reminder for Association Members that it’s again that time of year for television stations to file distant signal copyright royalty claims.  Claims for 2020 must...