July 2006 The FCC’s new “junk fax” rules, which were adopted on April 6, 2006 pursuant to the Junk Fax Prevention Act of 2005 (“Fax Act”), will take effect on August 1, 2006. The Commission’s junk fax rules generally prohibit for-profit, as well as non-profit, entities from sending facsimile “advertisements”…

July 2006 The Commission recently rescinded the license grants and cancelled the underlying construction permits of two low power television stations in California. The FCC discovered that the licensee of the two stations falsely certified in its license application that “all terms, conditions, and obligations” set forth in the underlying…

July 2006 This advisory is directed to television stations with locally-produced programming whose signals were carried by at least one cable system located outside the station’s DMA or by a satellite provider which provided service to at least one viewer outside the station’s DMA. You are eligible to file royalty…

July 2006 Topics include: FCC Rescinds Grant of Two California Low Power Television Licenses FCC Fines Septic Company $9,000 for Unsolicited Messages FCC Fines Florida Radio Station $6,000 for Contest Hoax A PDF version of this entire article can be found at FCC Enforcement Monitor.

By Kathryn R. Schmeltzer, Lauren Lynch Flick and Paul A. Cicelski July 2006 This Broadcast Station EEO Advisory is directed to radio and television stations licensed to communities in California, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Wisconsin and highlights the upcoming deadlines for compliance with the FCC’s EEO rule. A…

By Kathryn R. Schmeltzer June 2006 At its June 21, 2006 Open Agenda Meeting, the FCC adopted a Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making (“FNPRM”) concerning its broadcast multiple ownership rules and at the same time announced the beginning of its quadrennial ownership review required by Congress. The FNPRM has…

By Kathryn R. Schmeltzer, Scott R. Flick, Lauren Lynch Flick and Paul A. Cicelski June 2006 TV, Class A TV, LPTV and TV translator stations licensed to communities in Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, American Samoa, Guam and the Mariana Islands should be receiving soon a postcard from the FCC reminding…

By Kathryn R. Schmeltzer, Lauren Lynch Flick and Paul A. Cicelski June 2006 Statutory and Regulatory Requirements As a result of the Children’s Television Act of 1990 and the FCC Rules adopted under the Act, full power and Class A television stations are required, among other things, to: (1) limit…

By Kathryn R. Schmeltzer, Lauren Lynch Flick and Paul A. Cicelski June 2006 Content of the Quarterly List The next Quarterly Issues/Programs List (“Quarterly List”) must be placed in stations’ local Public Inspection Files by July 10, 2006, reflecting information for the months of April, May and June, 2006. The…

May 2006 The FCC recently fined a television licensee $4,000 for violations that occurred during a contest run by the station in 2004. The FCC determined that the station failed to conduct the contest substantially as announced and advertised, a violation of Section 73.1216 of the Commission’s Rules. It was…