Yes, the FCC Still Wants Your Social Security Number
By Scott R. Flick Earlier today, the FCC released a Sixth Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking relating to its biennial broadcast ownership report filing requirements, reigniting a controversy over...
View ArticleFCC Mulls Over Raising Limits on Foreign Ownership of Broadcast Stations
By Richard R. Zaragoza In response to a request by the Coalition for Broadcast Investment (“Coalition”), the FCC, through its Media Bureau, has invited the filing of comments on the question of whether...
View ArticleFree TV Doesn’t Mean Free Lunch
By John K. Hane Recently, TVNewsCheck.com ran a short item noting that a large broadcast group (not a network owned and operated group) and a large multichannel video distributor (MVPD) successfully...
View ArticleFCC Grants More Time for 2013 Commercial Station Ownership Reports
By Scott R. Flick A few moments ago, on its own motion, the FCC released an Order extending the 2013 deadline for commercial radio and television stations (including Class A and LPTV stations) to file...
View ArticleTaking a Narrow View of the UHF Discount
By Scott R. Flick and Paul A. Cicelski This morning, the FCC’s proposal to eliminate the UHF Discount was published in the Federal Register, establishing the comment and reply comment dates for that...
View ArticleBreaking News: FCC Extends Ownership Reporting Deadline
By Lauren Lynch Flick A few minutes ago, the FCC released an Order extending the December 2, 2013 deadline for commercial broadcast stations to file their biennial ownership reports to December 20,...
View ArticleBreaking News: FCC Moves Up Ownership Report Deadline (Slightly)
By Scott R. Flick As our own Lauren Lynch Flick reported last month, the deadline for commercial broadcast stations to file their biennial ownership reports with the FCC, which the FCC in August moved...
View ArticleAnother Year Over and a New One Just Begun
By Scott R. Flick Around this time every year, you typically see an abundance of articles in the trades making predictions about what the FCC will do in the coming year. It has become such a rite of...
View ArticleDecember Filing Deadlines Are Upon Us
By Jessica Nyman October has come and gone, and now the season is upon us—filing season, that is! Though winter is coming, December will be a hot month for radio and television FCC filings. Failure to...
View ArticleFCC Makes “FRNdamental” Changes to Broadcast Ownership Reports
By Lauren Lynch Flick In a Report and Order that has been in the making since at least 1998, the FCC yesterday adopted new ownership reporting forms for both commercial and noncommercial broadcast...
View ArticlePrometheus Court Vacates FCC’s JSA Ban; Asks FCC for New Ownership Rules by...
By Lauren Lynch Flick The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit today issued a decision vacating the FCC rule effectively banning television Joint Sales Agreements (“JSAs”) and threatened to...
View ArticleChairman Wheeler Circulates Proposed Multiple Ownership Rules That Expand...
By Lauren Lynch Flick Today, the FCC released a document entitled Fact Sheet: Updating Media Ownership Rules in the Public Interest. The driver behind the Fact Sheet is the Chairman’s promise to the...
View ArticleFCC Enforcement Monitor ~ June 2016
By Scott R. Flick, Jessica Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen Pillsbury’s communications lawyers have published FCC Enforcement Monitor monthly since 1999 to inform our clients of notable FCC enforcement...
View ArticleFCC Postpones 2017 Noncommercial Biennial Ownership Report Deadlines Until...
By Scott R. Flick Noncommercial stations caught a break today. For many years, broadcast stations filed annual ownership reports on the anniversary date of their license renewal deadline. Since those...
View ArticleFCC’s Media Bureau Rescinds Ruling on New Noncom Ownership Reporting Rules
By Lauren Lynch Flick Just 29 days ago, the FCC’s Media Bureau issued an unusual decision denying Petitions for Reconsideration of an order adopted by the commissioners themselves, raising questions as...
View ArticleYou Can’t Have One Without the Other: FCC Restores UHF Discount to National Cap
By Scott R. Flick While the great American songwriter Sammy Cahn felt it was Love and Marriage that were inseparable (as they “go together like a horse and carriage”), the FCC today found the UHF...
View ArticleNo Stay for You: UHF Discount Now in Effect
By Scott R. Flick As we wrote about at the time, in April the Pai FCC continued its efforts to modernize broadcast regulation by restoring an old rule–the UHF Discount–until it can take a broader look...
View ArticleFCC Pushes Back New Unified Ownership Report Filing Deadline for Commercial...
By Lauren Lynch Flick The FCC announced on Friday afternoon that it would push back the December 1, 2017 deadline for commercial and noncommercial broadcast stations to file their biennial ownership...
View ArticleFCC Finds the Case for Broadcast Ownership Deregulation Compelling
By Scott R. Flick After much public debate, the FCC voted 3-2 today to reconsider and reverse the prior decision of the Wheeler FCC to leave the broadcast ownership rules largely unchanged in the...
View ArticleDecember Filing Deadlines Are Upon Us
By Jessica Nyman October has come and gone, and now the season is upon us—filing season, that is! Though winter is coming, December will be a hot month for radio and television FCC filings. Failure to...
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