September 2013 Pillsbury’s communications lawyers have published FCC Enforcement Monitor monthly since 1999 to inform our clients of notable FCC enforcement actions against FCC license holders and others. This month’s issue includes: FCC Assesses Substantial Fine for Antenna Lighting Outage Big Fines for Children’s Television Violations Failure to Monitor Antenna…
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FCC Enforcement Monitor
August 2013 Pillsbury’s communications lawyers have published FCC Enforcement Monitor monthly since 1999 to inform our clients of notable FCC enforcement actions against FCC license holders and others. This month’s issue includes: FCC Catches GPS Jammer at Airport $75,000 Consent Decree Adopted for Class A TV Violations Jamming Device in…
FCC Enforcement Monitor
July 2013 Pillsbury’s communications lawyers have published FCC Enforcement Monitor monthly since 1999 to inform our clients of notable FCC enforcement actions against FCC license holders and others. This month’s issue includes: FCC Issues “Lighting Fixture” Citation Consent Decree Adopted for Sponsorship ID Violation FCC Issues Citation to Credit Union…
FCC Enforcement Monitor
June 2013 Pillsbury’s communications lawyers have published FCC Enforcement Monitor monthly since 1999 to inform our clients of notable FCC enforcement actions against FCC license holders and others. This month’s issue includes: FCC Issues Heavy Fines for Late-Filed Children’s Television Programming Reports Motel with Multichannel Video Programming Distribution System Is…
What’s the Cost of Not Having a Retrans Agreement? $2.25 Million
We now know what the per-subscriber fee for cable systems lacking retransmission agreements with local broadcast stations is, and it isn’t “free”. Section 76.64 of the FCC’s Rules requires cable systems to have a written retransmission agreement in place before retransmitting the signal of a station that elected retransmission consent…
FCC Enforcement Monitor
May 2013 Pillsbury’s communications lawyers have published FCC Enforcement Monitor monthly since 1999 to inform our clients of notable FCC enforcement actions against FCC license holders and others. This month’s issue includes: FCC Establishes New Enforcement Policy for Student-Run Noncommercial Radio Stations CB Radio Owner Receives Fine for Harmful Interference…
FCC Grants Extension of Indecency Comment Deadlines
A few minutes ago, the FCC issued a Public Notice granting a thirty-day extension of the deadlines for submitting comments and reply comments in response to the FCC’s April 1, 2013 Public Notice seeking input on whether the Commission should make changes to its current broadcast indecency policies. Comments and…
FCC Hits Reset Button on Indecency
After nine months of rumors and uncertainty as to where the FCC is headed after last summer’s indecency decision by the Supreme Court in FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. (which we discussed in this post), the FCC today released a very brief public notice that: Announces the FCC staff…
FCC Enforcement Monitor
March 2013 Pillsbury’s communications lawyers have published FCC Enforcement Monitor monthly since 1999 to inform our clients of notable FCC enforcement actions against FCC license holders and others. This month’s issue includes: Delay in Providing Access to Public Inspection File Leads to Fine FCC Fines Broadcaster for Antenna Tower Fencing,…
FCC Enforcement Monitor
February 2013 Pillsbury’s communications lawyers have published FCC Enforcement Monitor monthly since 1999 to inform our clients of notable FCC enforcement actions against FCC license holders and others. This month’s issue includes: FCC Takes Action Against Interference and Unlicensed Operations FCC Assesses $25,000 Fine for Unresponsiveness Licensee Cannot Escape Fine…