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TV Stations Should Ensure Retransmission Consent Election Notices Are Timely Uploaded to Online Public Files December 10, 2014

Commercial television stations are required to place copies of their must carry/retransmission consent election notices—but not their retransmission consent agreements—in their public inspection files and retain them “for the duration...

STELA Reauthorization is Now Law December 10, 2014

After a tense year of competing proposals to reauthorize STELA, the House of Representatives, on November 19, 2014, passed the STELA Reauthorization Act (now called “STELAR,” but previous versions were...

TV Max Fined $2.25 Million for Unauthorized Retransmissions and Misrepresentations to the Commission July 29, 2014

The Commission has imposed a large penalty—finally—on a group of cable operators for unauthorized retransmission of the broadcast signals of six different television stations. The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau has imposed...

FCC Adopts New Retrans Joint Negotiation Rule May 12, 2014

Seeks further comment on elimination or modification of network non-duplication and syndicated exclusivity rules The Commission recently released a Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Order”...

House Commerce Committee’s Republican Leadership Releases Draft Satellite Reauthorization Bill March 14, 2014

Last week in Congress, the House Commerce Committee’s Republican leadership released a draft bill reauthorizing important legislation related to retransmission consent. The bill will affect different television stations in different...

D.C. Circuit Rejects Challenge to Expiration of “Viewability” Rule, Judge Attacks Must Carry January 9, 2014

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has weighed in on challenges by broadcasters to the expiration of the FCC’s “viewability” rule for cable carriage of must-carry television...

New Bills in Congress Propose Dramatic Changes to Retransmission Consent Regime December 13, 2013

New legislation introduced in Congress this week calls for dramatic changes to the retransmission consent model. Representatives from California, Anna Eshoo and Zoe Lofgren, have introduced the Video Consumers Have...