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Beginning Oct. 1st AM radio comes to the FM dial

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • September 1 2009

With today's Federal Register publication of the FCC's recent Order amending the rules governing FM Translator stations, the date is officially set at October 1st for when AM stations can begin to rebroadcast their signals on FM translators

Protection of children prompts potential FCC regulation of internet and wireless video programming and enhanced state privacy rules

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • August 26 2009

In the next few days, concerns about the protection of children from indecency and violence could lead to a report from the FCC to Congress urging use of the V Chip and other parental controls in devices other than television sets

Operating broadcast stations in an emergency - AM operations at night, STAs and other issues

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • September 3 2009

The threat from the recent fires to the tower farm on Mount Wilson from which many of the radio and television stations serving the Los Angeles area operate highlight the need for broadcasters to have an emergency plan in the event that some local catastrophe affects their tower site

Broadcast station update: EEO reports due October 1

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • September 1 2009

By Oct. 1, 2009, radio and television Station Employment Units in the listed states and territories must place in their Public Inspection File and post on their Web site, if they have one, their FCC Annual EEO Public File Report

Remember to notify the FCC of the completion of construction of new broadcast auxiliary station

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 27 2009

An FCC decision released today reminds broadcasters of the need to notify the FCC of the completion of construction of a new broadcast auxiliary station

No FCC rules against beer ads, but NCAA and other program suppliers may have their own limits

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • August 29 2009

Many broadcasters have had the conception that there are FCC rules against liquor advertising

FCC plans public workshops to be held in connection with its review of broadcast ownership rules

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 30 2009

In a Public Notice issued yesterday, the FCC announced that it would do a series of open "workshops" in connection with its review of the broadcast multiple ownership rules - the rules that restrict the number of radio or television stations which one party can own and which restrict the cross-ownership of radio and TV stations and newspapers in the same market

Will TV channel 6 be used for radio? MMTC petition raises the issue again

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • September 30 2009

With the end of the DTV transition, the future use of TV channels 5 and 6, about which we have written before, is now back before the Commission in connection with an FCC filing by the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, whose "radio rescue petition" was recently placed on a public notice, opening a 30-day public comment period

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

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 29 2009

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

Broadcast station reminder: quarterly issues programs lists due Oct. 10

  • Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 15 2009

By Oct. 10, 2009, all radio and television broadcast stations, both commercial and noncommercial, must prepare and place in their public inspection files a list of important issues facing their communities, and the programs aired in the months of July, August and September dealing with those issues