Interested in a brand new full power digital television station in Atlantic City, New Jersey, or Seaford, Delaware? Then the FCC has just what you're looking for, provided that you're ready, willing, and able to build the station from the ground up and don't mind a low VHF channel. The Commission today issued the first auction notice regard […]
Continuing its implementation of STELA (a.k.a. the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010), the Commission last week released an Order granting the application of satellite television provider DISH Network, LLC, and allowing DISH to once again import distant, out-of-market broadcast television signals. In its Order approving DISH's app […]
In another sign of just how closely the FCC monitors contests conducted by broadcast stations, the FCC this week issued a Notice of Apparent Liability (a notice of a fine of $4000) to Nassau Broadcasting for being imprecise in the wording of the contest rules for a contest to be held at one of its stations. In the rules of the contest, the station stated th […]
Are you ready to file your next license renewal application? It seems like the last license renewal cycle just ended (in fact, the last cycle is not over, as evidenced by the fact that the FCC in the last week has released several decisions dealing with late-filed renewals from the last cycle, and many TV stations still have license renewals that have not b […]
Even though there has been a request to put on hold the FCC's EEO enforcement (about which we wrote here), filed by a prominent Washington DC organization that promotes the participation of minorities and new entrants in broadcast employment and ownership positions, the FCC today announced that it is launching another round of EEO audits - this time onl […]
Election / Campaining laws are totally separate from "Fairness Doctrine." We were discussing free time ... but if you accept $$ from one candidate, you must […]
Isn't the fairness doctrine a dead issue? Brian ... From: Larry Fuss To: lptv@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 1:48 PM Subject: RE: [lptv] […]
Equal time is not applicable to a bonafide news event. If somebody like the League of Women Voters holds a debate and only invites the top 2 candidates, the […]