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Court tells FCC to give more consideration to newspaper-broadcast cross ownership rules and to policies to promote broadcast ownership by minorities

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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USA
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July 8 2011

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has once again questioned the FCC's determinations on broadcast ownership issues

Judge orders ASCAP fees for radio to drop - on an interim basis

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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USA
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May 19 2010

Last week, a US District Court Judge adopted a new interim rate to be paid by commercial radio broadcasters to ASCAP for the use of ASCAP-licensed music by over-the-air radio stations, reducing the fees paid by the industry by about $40 million dollars, or about 20 of the total that had been paid by the industry under the rate deal that expired at the end of 2009

FCC decides to appeal indency cases to Supreme Court

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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USA
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April 21 2011

The FCC's indecency rules have, in recent months, twice been declared unconstitutional by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit - essentially finding that the FCC's policies imposed unconstitutional restrictions on speech as they did not give broadcasters any way of determining what was permitted and what was prohibited

Broadcast indecency can't hide - a candidate for governor, a TV newscaster, Saturday Night Live and the clothing malfunction

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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USA
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September 29 2009

In the past several weeks, broadcast indecency has been back in the news - seemingly almost on a daily basis

What is the impact on broadcasters of Supreme Court decision that corporations can buy political ads? More money, more ad challenges and the return of the Zapple doctrine

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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USA
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January 22 2010

The Supreme Court Decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, freeing corporations to use their corporate funds to take explicit positions on political campaigns, has been mostly analyzed by broadcast trade publications as a good thing - creating one more class of potential buyers for broadcaster's advertising time during the political season - which seems to almost be nonstop in these days of intense partisan battles in Washington and in the statehouses throughout the country

$16.57 million verdict in hold your wee for Wii case - what are the FCC implications and what should broadcasters learn?

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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USA
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October 31 2009

A jury in Sacramento returned a $16.57 million verdict against Entercom Broadcasting's local subsidiary in the case involving the death of a contestant in a radio station-sponsored contest

Congress passes libel tourism act - protects on-line media from US enforcement of foreign judgments

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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USA
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August 4 2010

Congress last week adopted a bill important to all US media companies that produce content that can be received overseas

Court of Appeals determines that Launchcast is not an interactive service - thus not needing direct licenses from the record labels

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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USA
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August 22 2009

The question of when a digital music service is "interactive" and therefore requires direct negotiations with a copyright holder in order to secure permission to use a sound recording is a difficult one that has been debated since the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was adopted in 1998

Court of appeals throws out FCC fines in NYPD Blue case

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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USA
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January 4 2011

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals today issued a Summary Order vacating the $27,500 FCC fines imposed on a number of ABC television network stations in the Central and Mountain time zones which had aired, prior to the 10 PM safe harbor, an episode of the television program NYPD Blue on which a woman's bare buttocks were shown on screen

Court of Appeals strikes down FCC indecency rules

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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USA
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July 13 2010

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today struck down the FCC's indecency rules, finding that the rules were so vague as to not put broadcasters on notice of what programming was prohibited and what was permitted