By Kathryn R. Schmeltzer, Lauren Lynch Flick and Paul A. Cicelski October 2006 The next Children’s Television Programming Report must be filed with the FCC and placed in stations’ local Public Inspection Files by October 10, 2006, reflecting programming aired during the months of July, August, and September. A PDF…
September 2006 The Commission has designated a Texas radio station’s license renewal application for hearing after determining that the licensee apparently made several false certifications to the Commission, calling the licensee’s basic character qualifications into question. In January 2003, the licensee applied for a license to cover a previously-granted construction…
By Kathryn R. Schmeltzer, Clifford M. Harrington and Richard R. Zaragoza September 2006 FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology Announces Schedule for Proceeding on Unlicensed Operation in the TV Broadcast Bands As we reported earlier, on March 6, 2006, the FCC released an Order in Complaints Regarding Various Television Broadcasts…
September 2006 Topics include: FCC Designates Texas Radio Station’s Renewal Application for Hearing in Response to Licensee’s False Certifications FCC Fines Missouri Radio Station $16,800 for Violating the Commission’s Public Inspection File and Main Studio Rules and Exceeding Authorized Nighttime Power Limits FCC Rejects Mississippi Radio Station’s Attempt to Avoid…
By Kathryn R. Schmeltzer, Scott R. Flick, Lauren Lynch Flick and Paul A. Cicelski August 2006 TV, Class A TV, LPTV and TV translator stations licensed to communities in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont should be receiving soon a postcard from the FCC reminding them that…
July 2006 On July 24, 2006, the FCC released the text of the Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making (“FNPRM”) in the broadcast ownership proceeding that was adopted at the FCC’s June 21, 2006 agenda meeting. The FNPRM encompasses a number of docketed rule makings – a 2006 quadrennial regulatory…
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July 2006 The Commission recently rescinded the license grants and cancelled the underlying construction permits of two low power television stations in California.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.