and converter boxes. Stations may also wish to consider providing a link to the FCC’s website at www.DTV.gov which has an “Install a Converter Box” summary that includes scanning tips….
air programming targeted to minority audiences, potentially harming the financial viability of those stations. At issue is Arbitron’s commercial use of equipment called the Portable People Meter (“PPM”), a mobile-phone-sized…
On March 27, 2009, Masergy Communications, Inc. (“Masergy”) filed a petition requesting that the FCC clarify the USF requirements for Multi-Protocol Label Switching (“MPLS”). The term “MPLS” was added…
…a relatively simple decision from a service standpoint. Analog broadcasts dated back to the 1940’s, while competing cable and satellite-based subscription services gained popularity in the ensuing decades. Today, these…
December 2008 On December 2, 2008, the FCC extended the reply comment date in its sweeping Universal Service Fund (“USF”) Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “FNPRM”) until…
December 2008 This Advisory is designed to aid commercial, as well as noncommercial educational, radio and television station broadcasters in complying with the FCC’s public inspection file rules….
November 2008 All commercial and noncommercial educational digital television broadcast station licensees and permittees must file FCC Form 317 to report whether their stations provided ancillary or supplemental…
March 2008 Why should you, as a broadcaster, file comments in the FCC’s “Report on Broadcast Localism and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” in MB Docket No. 04-233 (“NPRM”)?…
December 2007 At an open meeting on December 18, 2007, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) adopted a Report on the results of its “Localism Proceeding” along with a…
November 2006 On November 14, 2006, FCC Commissioner Adelstein issued a statement commending The Center for Media Democracy and Free Press for its continued study regarding video news…
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