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2019-06-13: Updated: 2019-06-13 09:58:07 In Battle Against Robocalls, FCC Opens the Door to More Aggressive Call Blocking

By Glenn S. Richards and Warren Kessler

2019-05-30: Updated: 2019-05-30 13:21:05 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ May 2019

By Scott R. Flick, Joseph A. Cohen and Warren Kessler

2019-05-29: Updated: 2019-05-29 16:36:50 Next National EAS Test Is August 7, and Comes With a Twist

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2019-05-24: Updated: 2019-05-24 12:00:30 A Radio Broadcaster’s Guide to License Renewal

By Scott R. Flick, Lauren Lynch Flick and Warren Kessler

2019-05-24: Updated: 2019-05-24 12:04:47 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in Arizona, the District of Columbia, Idaho, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2019-05-24: Updated: 2019-05-24 12:06:24 Pre-Filing and Post-Filing License Renewal Announcement Reminder for Radio Stations in North Carolina and South Carolina

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2019-04-25: Updated: 2019-04-25 19:56:10 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ April 2019

By Scott R. Flick, Joseph A. Cohen and Warren Kessler

2019-04-22: Updated: 2019-04-24 14:59:49 C-Band Certification Deadline Nearing

By Lee G. Petro

2019-04-08: Updated: 2019-04-06 20:48:35 Deadline to Avoid Pre-1972 Sound Recording Statutory Damages Is Almost Here

By Lee G. Petro

2019-03-28: Updated: 2019-03-28 19:27:48 FCC Waives Quarterly Repack Reports for Certain TV Stations

By Warren Kessler

2019-03-28: Updated: 2019-03-28 18:31:04 2019 First Quarter Children’s Television Programming Documentation

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2019-03-28: Updated: 2019-03-28 18:33:29 2019 First Quarter Issues/Programming List Advisory for Broadcast Stations

By Scott R. Flick and Warren Kessler

2019-03-28: Updated: 2019-03-28 18:18:35 2019 First Quarter Transition Progress Report Due on April 10 for Stations Being Repacked

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Warren Kessler

2019-03-28: Updated: 2019-03-28 10:33:55 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ March 2019

By Scott R. Flick, Joseph A. Cohen and Warren Kessler

2019-03-27: Updated: 2019-03-28 18:49:37 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2019-03-27: Updated: 2019-03-28 18:43:07 Pre-Filing and Post-Filing License Renewal Announcement Reminder for Radio Stations in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2019-02-28: Updated: 2019-02-28 10:47:09 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ February 2019

By Scott R. Flick, Joseph A. Cohen and Warren Kessler

2019-02-14: Updated: 2019-02-14 14:04:54 FCC Eliminates EEO Mid-Term Report Filings

By Lee G. Petro

2019-01-31: Updated: 2019-01-31 11:42:22 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ January 2019

By Scott R. Flick, Joseph A. Cohen and Warren Kessler

2019-01-29: Updated: 2019-01-29 18:34:15 Breaking News: FCC Extends Its Extension of Already Extended Deadlines

By Warren Kessler

2019-01-28: Updated: 2019-01-28 18:23:40 Broadcasters Scramble as FCC Reopens and Announces New Filing Deadlines

By Warren Kessler

2019-01-15: Updated: 2019-01-15 14:56:38 How to Tell an FCC Scam Call From a Department of Treasury Call

By Scott R. Flick

2019-01-14: Updated: 2019-01-14 17:51:10 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, and Oklahoma

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2019-01-08: Updated: 2019-01-08 12:14:40 Dozens of Stations Snared Every Hour by Trap Unwittingly Left by a Closed FCC

By Scott R. Flick

2019-01-04: Updated: 2019-01-10 15:56:20 Breaking News Alert: Scammers Impersonating the FCC Seeking to Scam Broadcasters During Government Shutdown

By Scott R. Flick

2019-01-04: Updated: 2019-01-04 16:02:32 Federal Shutdown Creates Public File and Repack Headaches for Broadcasters

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2018-12-31: Updated: 2018-12-31 10:48:06 2018 Fourth Quarter Children’s Television Programming Documentation

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2018-12-31: Updated: 2018-12-31 10:42:23 2018 Fourth Quarter Transition Progress Report Due on January 10 for Stations Being Repacked

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Warren Kessler

2018-12-31: Updated: 2018-12-31 10:37:22 2018 Fourth Quarter Issues/Programs List Advisory for Broadcast Stations

By Scott R. Flick and Warren Kessler

2018-12-27: Updated: 2018-12-27 13:43:20 What You Thought You Knew About 2018, and Need to Know About 2019

By Scott R. Flick and Warren Kessler

2018-12-19: Updated: 2018-12-19 14:57:36 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ December 2018

By Scott R. Flick, Joseph A. Cohen and Warren Kessler

2018-11-29: Updated: 2018-11-29 13:53:40 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ November 2018

By Scott R. Flick, Joseph A. Cohen and Warren Kessler

2018-11-12: Updated: 2018-11-12 14:03:20 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Vermont

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2018-10-31: Updated: 2018-10-31 13:59:35 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ October 2018

By Scott R. Flick, Joseph A. Cohen and Warren Kessler

2018-10-29: Updated: 2018-10-29 20:16:51 FCC Retunes Rules For Citizens Broadband Radio Service

By Lee G. Petro

2018-10-23: Updated: 2018-10-23 12:56:42 FCC Retires 80-Year-Old Contract Filing Rule

By Warren Kessler

2018-10-22: Updated: 2018-10-22 13:39:09 5G for People in a Hurry

By Glenn S. Richards and Joseph A. Cohen

2018-10-17: Updated: 2018-10-17 15:20:17 Breaking News: FCC Extends C-Band Registration Deadline

By Jessica T. Nyman

2018-09-28: Updated: 2018-09-28 18:37:35 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ September 2018

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Warren Kessler

2018-09-28: Updated: 2018-09-28 12:14:43 2018 Third Quarter Children’s Television Programming Documentation

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2018-09-28: Updated: 2018-09-28 12:13:49 2018 Third Quarter Transition Progress Report Due on October 10 for Stations Being Repacked

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Warren Kessler

2018-09-28: Updated: 2018-09-28 12:11:59 2018 Third Quarter Issues/Programs List Advisory for Broadcast Stations

By Scott R. Flick and Warren Kessler

2018-09-28: Updated: 2018-09-28 20:11:01 FCC Makes Fundamental Changes to Toll Free Number Marketplace

By Glenn S. Richards and Joseph A. Cohen

2018-09-26: Updated: 2018-09-26 17:06:23 FCC Proposes Rules to Improve 911 Emergency Calling

By Glenn S. Richards and Joseph A. Cohen

2018-09-21: Updated: 2018-09-21 14:10:11 Political Dollars, the Radio Show, and Broadcast Finance

By Scott R. Flick

2018-09-20: Updated: 2018-09-20 16:44:34 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Missouri, Oregon, Washington, American Samoa, Guam, the Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2018-09-17: Updated: 2018-09-17 16:31:55 Breaking News: National EAS and WEA Tests Postponed Until October 3

By Scott R. Flick

2018-09-11: Updated: 2018-09-11 20:33:34 Broadcasters Prepare to Meet Their Obligations as “First Informers” in Hurricane Florence

By Scott R. Flick

2018-08-30: Updated: 2018-09-05 14:48:49 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ August 2018

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Warren Kessler

2018-08-29: Updated: 2018-08-30 15:27:53 FCC Clarifies Deadlines for Repack Phase 1, Establishing Template for All Future Repack Phases

By Scott R. Flick, Lauren Lynch Flick and Warren Kessler

2018-08-20: Updated: 2018-08-20 16:19:04 This Part Is Not a Test – Meeting Broadcasters’ Obligations to Prepare for the National EAS Test

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Warren Kessler

2018-08-06: Updated: 2018-08-06 15:44:41 Show Me the Money: FCC Launches Repack Reimbursement Proceeding for LPTV, TV Translator, and FM Stations

By Lee G. Petro

2018-07-30: Updated: 2018-07-30 12:58:22 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ July 2018

By Scott R. Flick, Joseph A. Cohen and Warren Kessler

2018-07-19: Updated: 2018-07-19 14:07:15 Cable and Satellite Royalty Claims Due to the Copyright Royalty Board by July 31, 2018

By Scott R. Flick and Lauren Lynch Flick

2018-07-17: Updated: 2018-07-17 11:45:52 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in California, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Wisconsin

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2018-06-29: Updated: 2018-07-02 10:01:18 2018 Second Quarter Transition Progress Report Due on July 10 for Stations Being Repacked

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Warren Kessler

2018-06-29: Updated: 2018-07-02 10:04:26 2018 Second Quarter Children’s Television Programming Documentation

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2018-06-29: Updated: 2018-07-02 09:40:40 2018 Second Quarter Issues/Programs List Advisory for Broadcast Stations

By Scott R. Flick and Warren Kessler

2018-06-25: Updated: 2018-06-25 16:22:05 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ June 2018

By Scott R. Flick and Warren Kessler

2018-05-30: Updated: 2018-05-30 16:46:33 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ May 2018

By Scott R. Flick, Joseph A. Cohen and Warren Kessler

2018-05-25: Updated: 2018-05-25 16:11:53 FCC Grants TV Stations Last-Minute Reprieve on Certain Audible Crawl Requirements

By Warren Kessler

2018-05-14: Updated: 2018-05-14 11:33:15 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in Arizona, the District of Columbia, Idaho, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2018-04-30: Updated: 2018-04-30 14:14:24 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ April 2018

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Warren Kessler

2018-04-26: Updated: 2018-04-26 13:25:16 Better Late Than Never? Upload Those First Quarter Issues/Programs Lists

By Warren Kessler

2018-04-13: Updated: 2018-04-13 19:58:12 DTV Ancillary and Supplementary Services Report Goes Away for Most TV Stations

By Warren Kessler

2018-03-29: Updated: 2018-04-13 19:14:19 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ March 2018

By Scott R. Flick, Joseph A. Cohen and Warren Kessler

2018-03-26: Updated: 2018-03-28 15:59:36 2018 First Quarter Transition Progress Report Due on April 10 for Stations Being Repacked

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Warren Kessler

2018-03-26: Updated: 2018-03-26 13:52:11 2018 First Quarter Children’s Television Programming Documentation

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2018-03-26: Updated: 2018-03-26 13:44:37 2018 First Quarter Issues/Programming List Advisory for Broadcast Stations

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Warren Kessler

2018-03-24: Updated: 2018-03-28 16:01:35 Broadcaster Access to Disaster Areas Becomes the Law of the Land

By Scott R. Flick

2018-03-19: Updated: 2019-04-11 11:47:03 Court of Appeals Rolls Back Portions of the FCC’s 2015 Robocall and Text Ruling

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2018-03-15: Updated: 2018-03-15 13:45:18 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2018-03-13: Updated: 2018-03-28 16:05:42 Broadcasters Prepare for Their #MeToo Moment

By Scott R. Flick

2018-02-28: Updated: 2018-02-28 15:47:11 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ February 2018

By Scott R. Flick, Joseph A. Cohen and Warren Kessler

2018-01-30: Updated: 2018-01-30 19:16:01 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, and Oklahoma

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2018-01-30: Updated: 2018-01-30 14:58:42 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ January 2018

By Scott R. Flick, Joseph A. Cohen and Warren Kessler

2018-01-11: Updated: 2018-01-11 18:20:02 Confused About Paying Interns? The Rules Just Changed Again

By Scott R. Flick

2018-01-05: Updated: 2018-01-05 14:48:57 2017 Fourth Quarter Transition Progress Report Due on January 10 for Stations Being Repacked

By Lauren Lynch Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Warren Kessler

2017-12-28: Updated: 2017-12-28 15:47:12 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ December 2017

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Warren Kessler

2017-12-21: Updated: 2017-12-21 13:31:12 Broadcasters Face a (Re)Packed 2018

By Scott R. Flick

2017-11-30: Updated: 2018-08-16 13:59:19 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ November 2017

By Scott R. Flick, Joseph A. Cohen and Warren Kessler

2017-11-21: Updated: 2017-11-21 15:58:09 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Vermont

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2017-11-15: Updated: 2017-11-15 16:02:20 Most TV Stations Can Stop Drafting Their DTV Ancillary Services Report

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2017-11-06: Updated: 2017-11-06 14:49:15 FCC Locks in Dates for Short Lifting of Upgrade Freeze for Unrepacked TV Stations

By Scott R. Flick

2017-10-31: Updated: 2017-10-31 16:44:33 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ October 2017

By Scott R. Flick, Joseph A. Cohen and Warren Kessler

2017-10-26: Updated: 2017-10-26 21:35:53 Breaking News: FCC Releases Details of Its Proposed ATSC 3.0 Approval

By Scott R. Flick

2017-10-24: Updated: 2017-10-24 12:55:32 The Main Studio Rule Is Dead; Long Live the Main Studio

By Scott R. Flick

2017-10-19: Updated: 2017-10-19 19:07:05 After Nearly 5 Years, FCC Lifting Freeze on Mods for Unrepacked Full-Power and Class A TV Stations

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2017-10-04: Updated: 2017-10-04 20:41:58 TV Stations’ First Ever Quarterly Transition Progress Report Due October 10

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2017-10-02: Updated: 2017-10-09 12:11:12 Will Anyone Pay for 1-833-AUCTION?

By Glenn S. Richards

2017-09-29: Updated: 2017-10-02 10:37:05 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ September 2017

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2017-09-28: Updated: 2017-10-04 13:44:01 911 Concerns Fuel New FCC Proceeding

By Glenn S. Richards

2017-09-27: Updated: 2017-09-27 05:05:17 Today’s the Day: Nationwide EAS Test and Form 2 Deadline Arrive

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2017-09-21: Updated: 2017-09-21 16:14:10 FCC Announces Modification Window for Repacked and Band-Changing Stations

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2017-09-21: Updated: 2017-11-08 14:33:44 2017 Third Quarter Issues/Programs List Advisory for Broadcast Stations

By Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2017-09-21: Updated: 2017-09-21 13:09:13 2017 Third Quarter Children’s Television Programming Documentation

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2017-09-19: Updated: 2017-09-19 16:58:51 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Missouri, Oregon, Washington, American Samoa, Guam, the Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, Saipan, and the Virgin Islands

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2017-09-15: Updated: 2017-09-15 13:38:26 FCC Announces Annual Regulatory Fee Deadline, Gives Break to Small Market Radio Stations and Stations in Hurricane-Affected Areas

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2017-09-05: Updated: 2017-09-05 18:39:37 FCC Pushes Back New Unified Ownership Report Filing Deadline for Commercial and NCE Broadcast Stations

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2017-08-31: Updated: 2017-08-31 16:16:13 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ August 2017

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2017-08-22: Updated: 2017-08-24 15:37:35 Broadcasters Encounter FCC System Obstacles in Meeting Monday Deadline for EAS Form 1 Filing

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2017-07-27: Updated: 2017-07-27 12:42:19 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ July 2017

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2017-07-24: Updated: 2017-07-24 16:44:21 Cable and Satellite Royalty Claims Due to the Copyright Royalty Board by July 31, 2017

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2017-07-24: Updated: 2017-07-24 16:32:41 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in California, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Wisconsin

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2017-07-21: Updated: 2017-07-21 03:09:20 Show Me the Money: Broadcaster Auction Payments Coming in Next Few Days

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2017-07-06: Updated: 2017-11-10 14:42:31 2017 Second Quarter Children’s Television Programming Documentation

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2017-07-06: Updated: 2017-11-10 14:40:05 2017 Second Quarter Issues/Programs List Advisory for Broadcast Stations

By Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2017-06-30: Updated: 2017-06-30 11:58:00 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ June 2017

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2017-06-29: Updated: 2017-06-29 14:17:36 As of Today, Letters From the Public Are a Thing of the Past

By Scott R. Flick

2017-06-23: Updated: 2017-06-23 16:36:20 FCC Will Revisit Building Access Rules

By Glenn S. Richards

2017-06-15: Updated: 2017-06-15 12:58:01 No Stay for You: UHF Discount Now in Effect

By Scott R. Flick

2017-05-24: Updated: 2017-05-24 16:22:42 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ May 2017

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2017-05-23: Updated: 2017-05-23 11:07:39 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in Arizona, the District of Columbia, Idaho, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2017-05-17: Updated: 2017-05-19 01:04:20 Details of FCC’s Repack Plans for LPTV and TV Translator Stations Emerge

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2017-04-27: Updated: 2017-04-27 16:04:18 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ April 2017

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2017-04-20: Updated: 2017-04-20 13:08:23 You Can’t Have One Without the Other: FCC Restores UHF Discount to National Cap

By Scott R. Flick

2017-04-13: Updated: 2017-04-13 18:24:16 FCC Announces Auction Results and Sets TV Repack Deadlines

By Scott R. Flick, Lauren Lynch Flick and Joseph A. Cohen

2017-03-30: Updated: 2017-03-30 19:46:07 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ March 2017

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2017-03-28: Updated: 2017-03-28 16:47:37 2017 First Quarter Children’s Television Programming Documentation

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2017-03-28: Updated: 2017-11-10 14:46:57 2017 First Quarter Issues/Programs List Advisory for Broadcast Stations

By Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2017-03-20: Updated: 2017-03-20 10:45:44 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas

By Scott R. Flick and Lauren Lynch Flick

2017-03-13: Updated: 2019-04-11 11:51:25 Federal Law Now Prohibits Censoring Unfavorable Reviews

By Michael P. Heuga and Catherine D. Meyer

2017-03-06: Updated: 2017-03-06 18:15:50 FCC Proposes Answers to Unwanted Calls

By Glenn S. Richards

2017-03-02: Updated: 2018-02-02 17:38:44 ATSC 3.0 and the Perennial Transition

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2017-02-23: Updated: 2017-03-01 15:06:20 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ February 2017

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2017-02-06: Updated: 2017-02-07 12:17:50 Pai FCC Moves Quickly to Rescind Wheeler FCC Actions

By Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2017-02-02: Updated: 2017-02-03 14:23:35 FCC’s Media Bureau Rescinds Ruling on New Noncom Ownership Reporting Rules

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2017-01-31: Updated: 2017-03-01 15:00:23 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ January 2017

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2017-01-31: Updated: 2017-02-03 14:21:35 Letters From the Public: Pai FCC Takes First Step on Broadcast Deregulation

By Scott R. Flick

2017-01-25: Updated: 2017-02-08 09:22:46 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, and Oklahoma

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2017-01-10: Updated: 2017-01-10 17:38:47 Breaking News: FCC Moves Forward on Eliminating the Need to Maintain a Local Public File

By Scott R. Flick

2017-01-09: Updated: 2017-01-10 00:04:33 FCC Makes Airing Political Ads Much More Complicated

By Scott R. Flick

2016-12-30: Updated: 2017-03-17 12:37:10 2016 Fourth Quarter Children’s Television Programming Documentation

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2016-12-30: Updated: 2016-12-30 11:07:56 2016 Fourth Quarter Issues/Programs List Advisory for Broadcast Stations

By Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2016-12-30: Updated: 2016-12-30 10:58:09 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ December 2016

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2016-12-22: Updated: 2016-12-22 13:31:19 How to Predict an Unpredictable 2017: The Pillsbury Broadcasters’ Calendar

By Scott R. Flick

2016-12-20: Updated: 2016-12-20 14:55:49 FCC Postpones 2017 Noncommercial Biennial Ownership Report Deadlines Until December 1

By Scott R. Flick

2016-12-14: Updated: 2016-12-14 19:22:33 First-Wave Radio Stations Must Upload Existing Public File Materials by December 24

By Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2016-12-05: Updated: 2016-12-05 16:24:58 One and Done: Stage 3 Forward Auction Ends After Just One Round of Bidding

By Scott R. Flick

2016-11-30: Updated: 2016-12-14 14:58:50 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ November 2016

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2016-11-22: Updated: 2017-07-24 16:19:40 Client Alert: Federal Court Rules New Overtime Requirements Won’t Go Into Effect on December 1

By Scott R. Flick

2016-11-11: Updated: 2016-12-14 15:02:18 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Vermont

By Scott R. Flick and Lauren Lynch Flick

2016-11-11: Updated: 2016-11-11 14:51:01 Biennial Ownership Reports are due by December 1, 2016 for Noncommercial Radio Stations in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota and Noncommercial Television Stations in Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2016-11-11: Updated: 2016-11-11 14:40:38 Annual DTV Ancillary/Supplementary Services Report Due for Commercial and Noncommercial Digital Television Stations

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2016-11-10: Updated: 2017-07-24 15:49:23 FCC Imposes Privacy Restrictions on Broadband Providers … for Now

By Glenn S. Richards

2016-11-03: Updated: 2017-07-25 16:55:29 Ain’t No Cure for the Overtime Blues

By Scott R. Flick

2016-10-31: Updated: 2016-10-31 14:16:02 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ October 2016

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2016-10-26: Updated: 2019-04-26 12:19:52 NAB Agreement With Sony Brings Flexibility Back to Music Streaming

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2016-10-19: Updated: 2016-10-19 15:11:25 Blink and You Missed It: Stage 2 of the Incentive Auction Ends

By Scott R. Flick

2016-10-13: Updated: 2016-10-13 13:25:46 Try, Try Again: Stage 2 Reverse Auction Concludes at $54.6B

By Scott R. Flick

2016-10-12: Updated: 2018-01-19 15:01:54 Newsgathering Drones Take Flight

By Joseph A. Cohen

2016-10-05: Updated: 2016-10-05 21:17:00 Keep Calm and Broadcast On: Broadcasters as Hurricane First Responders

By Scott R. Flick

2016-10-04: Updated: 2016-10-04 14:30:01 2016 Third Quarter Issues/Programs List Advisory for Broadcast Stations

By Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2016-10-04: Updated: 2017-03-17 12:39:13 2016 Third Quarter Children’s Television Programming Documentation

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2016-09-28: Updated: 2016-10-31 13:50:22 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ September 2016

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2016-09-27: Updated: 2016-09-27 14:16:55 Hoping to Avoid Website Crash, FCC Urges EAS Participants to Stagger Filings

By Joseph A. Cohen

2016-09-19: Updated: 2016-09-19 13:26:06 Biennial Ownership Reports are due by October 3, 2016 for Noncommercial Radio Stations in Iowa and Missouri and Noncommercial Television Stations in Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, American Samoa, Guam, the Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, Saipan, and the Virgin Islands

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2016-09-19: Updated: 2016-09-19 13:09:08 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Missouri, Oregon, Washington, American Samoa, Guam, the Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, Saipan, and the Virgin Islands

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2016-09-16: Updated: 2016-09-16 12:48:20 Broadcast Finance at the Radio Show

By Scott R. Flick

2016-09-06: Updated: 2019-04-26 12:20:05 September 27 Is the Deadline for 2016 Regulatory Fees

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2016-08-31: Updated: 2016-08-31 15:50:32 FCC Takes a Mulligan, Announces September 13 as the Start Date for Stage 2 of the Spectrum Auction

By Scott R. Flick

2016-08-30: Updated: 2016-08-30 19:06:08 Incentive Auction Stage 1 Falls ($66 Billion) Short of the Target—On to the Next One!

By Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2016-08-23: Updated: 2016-08-23 17:30:39 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ August 2016

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2016-08-04: Updated: 2016-08-04 16:20:29 Nationwide EAS Test Comes With a “To Do” List for Broadcasters and Other EAS Participants

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Joseph A. Cohen

2016-07-29: Updated: 2016-07-29 14:59:21 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ July 2016

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2016-07-28: Updated: 2017-07-24 14:17:52 TV Broadcasters Filing Royalty Claims Will Need to Hustle

By Scott R. Flick

2016-07-27: Updated: 2016-07-27 13:50:11 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in California, Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina and Wisconsin

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2016-07-27: Updated: 2017-07-24 17:23:21 Biennial Ownership Reports are due by August 1, 2016 for Noncommercial Radio Stations in Illinois and Wisconsin and Noncommercial Television Stations in California, North Carolina and South Carolina

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2016-07-21: Updated: 2016-07-21 14:35:02 A Good Faith Disconnect on Retrans

By Scott R. Flick

2016-07-20: Updated: 2019-04-26 12:20:18 FM Translators for AM Stations: When One Window Closes, Another Opens

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2016-07-20: Updated: 2017-07-24 14:07:45 Cable and Satellite Royalty Claims Due to the Copyright Royalty Board by August 1, 2016

By Scott R. Flick and Lauren Lynch Flick

2016-07-07: Updated: 2017-03-17 12:41:56 2016 Second Quarter Children’s Television Programming Documentation

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2016-06-30: Updated: 2016-06-30 17:29:36 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ June 2016

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2016-06-27: Updated: 2016-06-28 12:02:51 Chairman Wheeler Circulates Proposed Multiple Ownership Rules That Expand Regs for TV

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2016-06-24: Updated: 2016-06-24 11:09:32 A Broadcaster’s Guide to the U.S. Department of Labor’s New Overtime Exemption Requirements

By Julia E. Judish, Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2016-06-20: Updated: 2016-06-20 20:51:56 Making the Move to the New Online Public Inspection File System This Friday

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2016-06-20: Updated: 2016-06-20 13:33:56 Special Advisory for Commercial and Noncommercial Broadcasters: Meeting the Radio and Television Public Inspection File Requirements

By Scott R. Flick, Lauren Lynch Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2016-06-02: Updated: 2016-06-02 19:39:13 New Online Public File Demonstration Set for June 13

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2016-05-31: Updated: 2016-07-29 12:37:46 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ May 2016

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2016-05-25: Updated: 2016-05-25 23:42:10 Prometheus Court Vacates FCC’s JSA Ban; Asks FCC for New Ownership Rules by Year-End

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2016-05-25: Updated: 2019-04-26 12:20:29 FCC Issues NPRM to Remove Correspondence From Public File

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2016-05-19: Updated: 2016-05-19 15:37:45 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in Arizona, the District of Columbia, Idaho, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2016-05-19: Updated: 2016-05-19 14:44:03 Biennial Ownership Reports are due by June 1, 2016 for Noncommercial Radio Stations in Michigan and Ohio and Noncommercial Television Stations in Arizona, the District of Columbia, Idaho, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2016-05-12: Updated: 2016-05-12 19:31:28 All New Online Public File for TV, Radio, Cable and Satellite Coming June 24th

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2016-05-04: Updated: 2016-05-04 20:30:04 FCC Takes Next Step to Move Public Files Out of the Main Studio

By Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2016-04-30: Updated: 2016-05-01 17:47:22 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ April 2016

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2016-04-29: Updated: 2019-04-26 12:20:42 FCC Sets Clearing Target and Starting Date for Incentive Auction

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2016-04-26: Updated: 2016-04-26 16:48:46 FCC Starts Down the Path to ATSC 3.0

By Scott R. Flick

2016-04-07: Updated: 2016-04-07 12:22:16 FCC Proposes Privacy Rules for Broadband Providers

By Glenn S. Richards

2016-03-31: Updated: 2016-03-31 19:45:46 FCC’s Efforts to Expand Video Description May Spark Debate on Statutory Authority

By Jessica T. Nyman

2016-03-31: Updated: 2016-03-31 14:15:18 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ March 2016

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2016-03-28: Updated: 2016-03-28 19:19:23 2016 First Quarter Issues/Programs List Advisory for Broadcast Stations

By Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2016-03-28: Updated: 2017-03-17 12:48:28 2016 First Quarter Children’s Television Programming Documentation

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2016-03-24: Updated: 2017-07-26 11:34:45 FTC Action Against Lord & Taylor Social Media Campaign Has Repercussions for Broadcasters

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2016-03-18: Updated: 2016-03-18 13:33:28 Broadcast Incentive Auction SecurID Tokens Are in the Mail

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2016-02-29: Updated: 2016-02-29 22:09:40 FCC Releases Spectrum Auction User Guide and Online Tutorial for March 28-29 Initial Commitment Window

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2016-02-26: Updated: 2016-03-02 15:50:14 FCC Enforcement Monitor ~ February 2016

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2016-02-15: Updated: 2016-02-15 21:38:40 The FCC Has Written Good Contest Rules, Now You Should Too

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2016-01-31: Updated: 2016-02-02 16:18:10 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2016-01-28: Updated: 2019-04-26 12:24:22 Neither Sleet Nor Snow Can Keep the Radio Public File From Going Online

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2016-01-21: Updated: 2016-01-21 02:38:01 FCC Makes “FRNdamental” Changes to Broadcast Ownership Reports

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2016-01-07: Updated: 2016-01-07 23:59:11 Radio Public Inspection File Coming Online

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2015-12-30: Updated: 2015-12-30 16:51:02 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2015-12-17: Updated: 2019-04-26 12:21:50 New Webcasting Rates a Win for Radio Broadcasters

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2015-11-30: Updated: 2015-11-30 17:22:39 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2015-11-19: Updated: 2015-11-19 17:41:08 FCC Releases Form 177 Auction Application Instructions

By Jessica T. Nyman

2015-11-12: Updated: 2015-11-12 13:51:15 FCC Moves Spectrum Auction Application Deadline After Making Changes to Opening Bids

By Scott R. Flick

2015-11-06: Updated: 2015-11-10 16:32:10 December Filing Deadlines Are Upon Us

By Jessica T. Nyman

2015-10-29: Updated: 2015-10-29 14:02:06 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick, Jessica T. Nyman and Joseph A. Cohen

2015-10-25: Updated: 2019-04-26 12:24:09 FCC Finally Moves Forward on AM Revitalization Order with Delayed FM Translator Window

By Joseph A. Cohen

2015-10-15: Updated: 2015-10-27 15:35:37 Scary Warning Accompanies FCC Announcement of Auction Application Window

By Scott R. Flick

2015-10-01: Updated: 2017-03-17 12:55:11 2015 Third Quarter Children’s Television Programming Documentation

By Scott R. Flick and Lauren Lynch Flick

2015-10-01: Updated: 2015-10-01 13:46:16 2015 Third Quarter Issues/Programs List Advisory for Broadcast Stations

By Scott R. Flick

2015-09-30: Updated: 2015-10-01 12:10:56 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2015-09-28: Updated: 2015-10-01 12:08:10 Financing the Future of Radio: Pillsbury at the Radio Show

By Scott R. Flick

2015-09-17: Updated: 2015-09-17 17:10:46 [UPDATED] FCC Permits Online Contest Disclosures

By Jessica T. Nyman and Scott R. Flick

2015-09-17: Updated: 2015-10-01 12:09:08 FCC Permits Online Contest Disclosures

By Jessica T. Nyman and Scott R. Flick

2015-09-02: Updated: 2019-04-26 12:22:03 Client Alert: FCC Sets September 24, 2015 Deadline for 2015 Regulatory Fees

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2015-08-31: Updated: 2015-10-01 12:13:55 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2015-08-27: Updated: 2015-08-27 17:33:56 FCC Moves Forward on Modernizing Station-Conducted Contest Rule

By Jessica T. Nyman

2015-08-12: Updated: 2019-04-26 12:22:28 FCC Chairman Signals Mixed Bag of Changes to Media Rules

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2015-07-30: Updated: 2015-07-30 14:58:50 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2015-07-24: Updated: 2015-07-24 19:01:53 Digital (Im)permanence and the FCC’s Online Public File

By Jessica T. Nyman

2015-07-10: Updated: 2015-07-10 13:51:11 Everything You’ve Been Told About Paying Interns May Now Be Wrong

By Scott R. Flick

2015-06-30: Updated: 2015-06-30 14:05:30 FCC Releases Baseline Station Coverage for Auction and Repacking

By Scott R. Flick

2015-06-30: Updated: 2015-06-30 11:12:51 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2015-06-25: Updated: 2015-06-25 15:06:27 50 Hour Video Description Obligation Expands to Top 60 Markets on July 1

By Jessica T. Nyman

2015-06-12: Updated: 2015-06-12 16:46:13 FCC Adopts New National EAS Test Rules and Accessibility Standards

By Paul A. Cicelski

2015-06-09: Updated: 2015-06-09 19:24:34 FCC Announces Eligibility List for Spectrum Auction and Deadline for Pre-Auction Filing

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2015-05-27: Updated: 2015-05-27 16:39:17 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2015-05-26: Updated: 2015-05-26 18:25:22 FCC Grants Temporary Waiver of Audible Crawl Rule

By Jessica T. Nyman

2015-05-22: Updated: 2019-04-26 12:22:49 FCC Proposes 2015 Regulatory Fees

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2015-05-22: Updated: 2015-05-22 11:10:03 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in Arizona, the District of Columbia, Idaho, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Scott R. Flick

2015-05-19: Updated: 2015-05-19 15:58:54 Cascading False EAS Alerts Bring Million Dollar Penalty

By Scott R. Flick

2015-05-13: Updated: 2015-05-13 17:57:49 FCC Outlines the Path to Spectrum Repack as May 29 TV Buildout Deadline Looms

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2015-05-12: Updated: 2015-05-12 17:50:51 FCC Ponders Extending Emergency Alert Accessibility Rules to “Second Screens”

By Jessica T. Nyman

2015-04-29: Updated: 2015-04-29 16:05:49 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2015-04-24: Updated: 2015-04-24 16:46:33 FCC Suspends September 1, 2015 Deadline for LPTV and Translator Stations to Shift from Analog to Digital

By Jessica T. Nyman

2015-04-20: Updated: 2015-04-20 16:52:08 Mistaken Assumptions Block Translators for AM Stations

By Scott R. Flick

2015-04-10: Updated: 2019-04-26 12:27:43 NAB 2015 Marks a Return to Form

By Scott R. Flick

2015-03-31: Updated: 2015-03-31 20:35:26 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2015-03-27: Updated: 2019-04-26 12:23:53 FCC Reveals the Details of Its Preemption of Municipal Broadband Restrictions

By Scott R. Flick

2015-03-23: Updated: 2015-03-31 13:33:29 Indecency Meets Big-Screen TVs: FCC Proposes Mammoth $325K Fine

By Scott R. Flick

2015-03-20: Updated: 2017-03-09 20:08:24 Biennial Ownership Reports are due by April 1, 2015 for Noncommercial Radio Stations in Texas and Noncommercial Television Stations in Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee

By Scott R. Flick and Lauren Lynch Flick

2015-03-20: Updated: 2015-03-31 14:26:07 Annual EEO Public File Report Deadline for Stations in Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Texas

By Scott R. Flick and Lauren Lynch Flick

2015-03-19: Updated: 2015-03-31 14:26:50 2015 First Quarter Issues/Programs List Advisory – Broadcast Stations

By Scott R. Flick and Lauren Lynch Flick

2015-03-19: Updated: 2017-03-17 12:47:29 2015 First Quarter Children’s Television Programming Documentation

By Scott R. Flick and Lauren Lynch Flick

2015-03-12: Updated: 2015-03-31 14:29:56 FCC Releases Text of Net Neutrality Order

By Glenn S. Richards

2015-03-12: Updated: 2015-03-31 14:31:07 New Closed Captioning Rules Take Effect Monday, March 16

By Jessica T. Nyman

2015-03-04: Updated: 2015-04-01 19:22:06 An Epitaph for Aereo

By Scott R. Flick

2015-02-27: Updated: 2019-04-26 12:23:02 FCC Preempts State Laws Restricting Municipal Broadband Deployment

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2015-02-26: Updated: 2015-03-31 15:13:05 The Net Neutrality Drama Plays On

By Scott R. Flick and Paul A. Cicelski

2015-02-25: Updated: 2015-03-31 15:13:39 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2015-02-20: Updated: 2015-03-31 15:14:25 Bringing the FCC’s Contest Rule Up to Date

By Paul A. Cicelski

2015-02-12: Updated: 2019-04-11 11:51:15 Can a Consumer Give Up the Right to Opt-Out of Robocalls and Texts?

By Paul A. Cicelski and Lauren Lynch Flick

2015-01-30: Updated: 2015-03-31 15:16:23 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2015-01-28: Updated: 2015-03-31 15:16:45 FCC Announces May 29, 2015 Licensing Deadline for Spectrum Repacking Protection

By Scott R. Flick and Paul A. Cicelski

2015-01-20: Updated: 2015-04-01 19:22:07 FCC Doesn’t Back Down on $1.4 Million in Fines Against Viacom and ESPN for False EAS Tones

By Scott R. Flick

2015-01-15: Updated: 2015-04-01 19:25:48 Comment Dates Set in FCC’s Heavily Anticipated MVPD Definition Proceeding

By Paul A. Cicelski

2015-01-05: Updated: 2015-03-31 15:18:38 2015 Off to a Fast Start for Broadcasters’ Regulatory Obligations

By Scott R. Flick

2014-12-29: Updated: 2015-04-01 19:27:31 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Jessica T. Nyman

2014-12-19: Updated: 2015-04-01 19:22:08 FCC Proposes Moving Radio, Satellite TV/Radio, and Cable TV Public Files Online

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2014-12-11: Updated: 2015-03-31 15:30:07 FCC Announces New End Date for JSA Grandfathering

By Scott R. Flick

2014-12-01: Updated: 2015-03-31 15:31:06 2014 Fourth Quarter Issues/Programs List Advisory for Broadcast Stations

By Scott R. Flick

2014-11-25: Updated: 2015-03-31 15:42:46 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick

2014-11-21: Updated: 2015-03-31 15:44:09 FCC Proposes to Clear Airwaves of Boring Contest Rules, But State Law Issues Remain

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2014-10-22: Updated: 2015-03-31 15:45:29 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick

2014-10-10: Updated: 2015-03-31 15:49:19 Breaking News: FCC Suspends Construction Deadlines and Expiration Dates for New LPTVs and Translators

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2014-10-09: Updated: 2015-03-31 15:49:47 FCC Announces Grant of 700 Delayed Broadcast License Renewals

By Scott R. Flick

2014-10-03: Updated: 2015-03-31 15:50:13 Hotels Jamming Wi-Fi Signals?

By Scott R. Flick

2014-09-30: Updated: 2015-03-31 15:50:45 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick

2014-09-18: Updated: 2015-04-01 19:25:49 October 1 Must-Carry/Retrans Elections Drive the Future of Local Broadcast TV

By Scott R. Flick

2014-09-02: Updated: 2015-03-31 15:52:24 FCC Moves Quickly to Reject Political Ad Sponsorship ID Complaints

By Scott R. Flick

2014-08-29: Updated: 2016-11-14 17:53:34 Client Alert: FCC Sets September 23, 2014 Deadline for 2014 Regulatory Fees

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2014-08-22: Updated: 2015-03-31 16:47:14 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick

2014-08-15: Updated: 2015-03-31 16:11:12 At Long Last, FCC Updates Its Tower Rules

By Paul A. Cicelski

2014-08-08: Updated: 2015-04-01 19:22:09 Radio Public File Going Online?

By Scott R. Flick

2014-08-07: Updated: 2015-04-01 17:16:37 FCC’s New Video Captioning Rules Go Online

By Paul A. Cicelski

2014-07-25: Updated: 2015-04-01 19:25:49 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick

2014-07-15: Updated: 2015-04-01 19:22:10 Comments Due August 14 For Latest EAS NPRM

By Paul A. Cicelski

2014-06-30: Updated: 2015-03-31 16:15:13 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick

2014-06-25: Updated: 2015-04-01 19:25:50 Supreme Court Finds That Aereo’s Major Innovation Is Copyright Infringement

By Scott R. Flick

2014-06-20: Updated: 2016-11-14 17:53:59 FCC Releases 2014 Regulatory Fee Proposals

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2014-06-18: Updated: 2015-04-02 13:21:05 FCC Announces June 19, 2016 Deadline for Revising TV Joint Sales Agreements

By Scott R. Flick

2014-06-12: Updated: 2016-11-14 17:54:20 FCC Announces Freeze on LPTV Displacements and New Digital Replacement Translator Applications

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2014-05-29: Updated: 2015-04-02 13:21:06 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick

2014-05-21: Updated: 2015-04-01 19:22:12 FCC Extends Waiver Allowing False Emergency Tones in FEMA PSAs

By Scott R. Flick

2014-05-15: Updated: 2015-04-01 17:14:35 FCC Adopts Rules for the Broadcast Spectrum Auction

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2014-05-14: Updated: 2015-03-31 16:24:49 Political Broadcasting Advisory

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2014-05-02: Updated: 2016-11-14 18:26:14 Knock Knock. Who’s There? The FCC and an $89,200 Fine.

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2014-05-01: Updated: 2016-11-14 18:26:36 Client Alert: All Class A and Full-Power Television Stations Must Comply with Online Political File Requirements as of July 1, 2014

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2014-04-30: Updated: 2015-03-31 16:29:27 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Paul A. Cicelski

2014-04-25: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:04:37 FCC Extends Comment Deadlines for Multilingual EAS

By Paul A. Cicelski

2014-04-23: Updated: 2015-04-10 13:24:31 Supreme Court Seems Skeptical About Aereo’s Business Model

By Paul A. Cicelski

2014-04-17: Updated: 2015-01-28 16:24:28 Broadcasters Get a Free Throw in Aereo Case

By Scott R. Flick

2014-04-02: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:11:11 The Supreme Court Giveth Where the FCC Taketh Away

By Scott R. Flick

2014-03-26: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:07:57 IRS Ruling Affects Media (and Other) Businesses Dabbling in Bitcoin Use

By Scott R. Flick

2014-03-18: Updated: 2015-03-31 16:46:40 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick

2014-03-14: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:09:37 Pre-Filing and Post-Filing License Renewal Announcement Reminder for TV Stations in Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming

By Scott R. Flick and Lauren Lynch Flick

2014-03-03: Updated: 2015-04-01 19:22:12 Big Fines for False EAS Tones Demonstrate the Need for a Good Indemnification Clause

By Scott R. Flick

2014-02-28: Updated: 2014-09-09 16:52:13 Breaking News: FCC Kills Critical Information Needs Study

By Scott R. Flick

2014-02-26: Updated: 2015-03-31 17:14:15 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick

2014-02-20: Updated: 2014-09-09 16:49:47 Aereo Stumbles in Utah on Its Way to the Supreme Court

By Scott R. Flick

2014-02-19: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:08:23 Marijuana Advertising: Don’t Get Fooled Again

By Scott R. Flick

2014-02-06: Updated: 2014-09-09 16:49:48 Aereo’s Rocky Path Ahead

By Scott R. Flick

2014-01-24: Updated: 2015-03-31 17:16:35 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick

2014-01-17: Updated: 2014-09-09 16:49:52 Another Year Over and a New One Just Begun

By Scott R. Flick

2014-01-14: Updated: 2015-04-01 19:22:13 FCC Prophecy on False EAS Alerts Comes True to the Tune of $200,000

By Scott R. Flick

2014-01-08: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:11:35 Unhappy With the Communications Act? Congress Wants to Know

By Scott R. Flick

2013-12-26: Updated: 2015-04-01 17:14:03 Comment Dates Set for FCC’s Proposal to Mandate Captioning of IP-Delivered “Video Clips”

By Paul A. Cicelski

2013-12-19: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:04:00 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Paul A. Cicelski

2013-12-09: Updated: 2014-09-09 16:52:14 Breaking News: FCC Moves Up Ownership Report Deadline (Slightly)

By Scott R. Flick

2013-12-05: Updated: 2017-01-12 11:27:50 FCC Detective Work Leads to Renewal Fines

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2013-12-03: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:06:01 FCC Provides LPFM Window Debriefing

By Paul A. Cicelski

2013-11-26: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:04:00 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Paul A. Cicelski

2013-11-15: Updated: 2014-09-09 16:52:12 Breaking News: FCC Extends Ownership Reporting Deadline

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2013-11-14: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:10:42 Taking a Narrow View of the UHF Discount

By Scott R. Flick and Paul A. Cicelski

2013-11-05: Updated: 2015-04-01 19:22:14 FCC Reaches Tipping Point on False EAS Alerts

By Scott R. Flick

2013-11-01: Updated: 2015-03-31 17:24:55 FCC Moves Forward on Revitalizing AM Radio

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2013-10-25: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:03:59 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Paul A. Cicelski

2013-10-18: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:00:20 FCC Announcement Provides Guidance on Post-Shutdown Filing Deadlines

By Paul A. Cicelski

2013-10-17: Updated: 2014-09-09 16:52:14 Breaking News: FCC Reopens and Suspends Filing Deadlines

By Scott R. Flick

2013-10-15: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:08:32 New “Robocall” Rules Impact How Businesses Can Text Consumers

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Andrew Bluth

2013-10-02: Updated: 2014-09-09 16:49:21 A Lesson for Congress on Retrans Negotiations?

By Scott R. Flick

2013-09-30: Updated: 2015-03-31 17:30:04 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Paul A. Cicelski

2013-09-18: Updated: 2017-03-10 13:12:51 DOJ Clears the Air on E-Cigarette Ads

By Scott R. Flick

2013-09-16: Updated: 2014-09-09 16:49:22 A New Term for Retrans

By Scott R. Flick

2013-09-12: Updated: 2018-03-12 19:38:25 Pillsbury at the NAB Show

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2013-09-04: Updated: 2015-04-02 13:21:06 CBS/Time Warner Deal Marks the Beginning of Retrans Version 3.0

By Scott R. Flick

2013-08-29: Updated: 2015-03-31 17:37:32 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Paul A. Cicelski

2013-08-23: Updated: 2015-04-01 17:18:03 Client Alert: FCC Sets September 20, 2013 Deadline for Payment of 2013 Annual Regulatory Fees

By Paul A. Cicelski

2013-08-22: Updated: 2017-07-24 16:57:44 FCC Commences E-Rate Program Overhaul

By Glenn S. Richards and Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2013-08-15: Updated: 2015-04-15 01:58:01 FCC Adopts Proposed FY 2013 Regulatory Fees

By Paul A. Cicelski

2013-08-06: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:04:44 FCC Grants More Time for 2013 Commercial Station Ownership Reports

By Scott R. Flick

2013-07-31: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:03:39 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Paul A. Cicelski

2013-07-23: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:08:58 One More Piece of the TV Auction Puzzle

By Paul A. Cicelski

2013-07-16: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:11:16 Today’s Aereo Decision: Technology Takes a Backseat

By Scott R. Flick

2013-07-12: Updated: 2015-04-01 17:11:30 FCC Seeks Greater Clarity on IP Video Captioning Rules

By Paul A. Cicelski

2013-06-30: Updated: 2015-04-01 19:22:15 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Paul A. Cicelski

2013-06-25: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:11:38 What’s the Cost of Not Having a Retrans Agreement? $2.25 Million

By Scott R. Flick

2013-06-05: Updated: 2017-01-12 11:28:15 Comments Due Soon on FCC’s Proposed 2013 Regulatory Fees

By Paul A. Cicelski

2013-05-31: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:10:38 Stations Find Out When Airing a Fake EAS Tone Is Okay

By Scott R. Flick

2013-05-23: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:03:37 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Paul A. Cicelski

2013-05-10: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:04:43 FCC Grants Extension of Indecency Comment Deadlines

By Paul A. Cicelski

2013-04-30: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:03:37 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Paul A. Cicelski

2013-04-29: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:05:22 FCC Modernizes Its Experimental Licensing Rules

By Paul A. Cicelski

2013-04-16: Updated: 2018-02-02 17:39:01 Free TV Doesn’t Mean Free Lunch

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2013-04-14: Updated: 2015-04-01 19:22:16 FCC Issues Lessons Learned From First Ever Nationwide EAS Test

By Paul A. Cicelski

2013-04-05: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:00:25 FCC Announces Immediate Freeze on TV Modification Applications

By Scott R. Flick

2013-04-04: Updated: 2017-03-09 20:09:36 Pillsbury Attorneys Heading to NAB Show in Vegas

By Paul A. Cicelski

2013-04-01: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:04:45 FCC Hits Reset Button on Indecency

By Scott R. Flick

2013-03-29: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:03:36 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Paul A. Cicelski

2013-03-26: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:07:27 First Quarter FCC KidVid Reports Confirm Accuracy of Mayan Calendar

By Scott R. Flick and Lauren Lynch Flick

2013-03-25: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:10:10 Second Online Captioning Deadline Arrives March 30

By Paul A. Cicelski

2013-03-20: Updated: 2014-09-09 16:49:19 A Farewell to Commissioner McDowell and a Nod to the “Rational Regulator”

By Scott R. Flick

2013-03-13: Updated: 2017-01-12 11:29:09 FCC Mulls Over Raising Limits on Foreign Ownership of Broadcast Stations

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2013-03-07: Updated: 2015-04-01 17:10:37 FCC Reduces Station Filing Burden For 2013 EEO Audits

By Paul A. Cicelski

2013-02-28: Updated: 2015-03-31 18:21:59 The FCC’s Equal Employment Opportunity Rules and Policies – A Guide for Broadcasters

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2013-02-25: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:03:35 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Paul A. Cicelski

2013-02-14: Updated: 2014-09-09 16:58:35 EAS Alerts and the Zombie Apocalypse Make Skynet a Reality

By Scott R. Flick

2013-02-12: Updated: 2015-04-01 19:22:17 FCC Urges IMMEDIATE Action to Prevent Further Fake EAS Alerts

By Scott R. Flick

2013-02-07: Updated: 2018-02-02 17:39:19 Should the Entire TV Band Be Repurposed?

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2013-01-31: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:05:59 FCC Provides a Little Online Public File Relief for “Some” TV Stations

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2013-01-31: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:03:34 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick and Paul A. Cicelski

2013-01-22: Updated: 2017-07-24 17:11:39 Recent Decisions Make Too Much Employee Confidentiality a Problem

By Scott R. Flick

2013-01-11: Updated: 2015-04-01 17:10:00 Online Public Inspection File Deadline Fast Approaching

By Paul A. Cicelski

2013-01-03: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:11:42 Yes, the FCC Still Wants Your Social Security Number

By Scott R. Flick

2012-12-27: Updated: 2015-03-31 18:26:05 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick

2012-12-13: Updated: 2015-04-01 19:22:17 Time to Get CALM for the Holidays

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2012-12-03: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:06:00 FCC Provides Clarity for Businesses Responding to Texting Opt-Outs

By Lauren Lynch Flick and Andrew Bluth

2012-12-01: Updated: 2014-09-09 16:49:16 2012 Fourth Quarter Children’s Television Programming Documentation

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2012-12-01: Updated: 2015-03-31 18:30:34 FCC Expands LPFM Service and Raises Translator Cap

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2012-12-01: Updated: 2014-09-09 16:49:17 2012 Fourth Quarter Issues/Programs List Advisory for Broadcast Stations

By Scott R. Flick

2012-11-30: Updated: 2015-03-31 18:38:20 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick

2012-11-27: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:09:45 Reminder: FCC Form 317 Deadline is Near

By Paul A. Cicelski

2012-11-19: Updated: 2019-04-11 11:47:12 Does Your Mobile App Provide Reasonable Access to Your Privacy Policy?

By Lauren Lynch Flick

2012-11-07: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:09:42 Randall Terry Focuses His Campaign on the FCC

By Scott R. Flick

2012-10-31: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:09:42 Randall Terry Pushes the FCC’s Political Envelope

By Scott R. Flick

2012-10-31: Updated: 2015-03-31 18:40:07 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick

2012-10-22: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:11:06 The FCC’s Spectrum Incentive Auction NPRM: A Condensed and Abridged Version

By Scott R. Flick

2012-10-17: Updated: 2019-04-11 11:47:19 Drawing the Line Online: Employers’ Rights to Employees’ Social Media Accounts

By Julia E. Judish, Thomas N. Makris and Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2012-10-12: Updated: 2014-09-09 16:49:44 A Spectral Incentive Auction?

By Scott R. Flick

2012-10-04: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:05:59 FCC Proposes Wholesale Examination of Satellite and Earth Station Licensing and Operating Rules

By Paul A. Cicelski

2012-09-28: Updated: 2015-04-01 19:22:18 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick

2012-09-26: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:07:26 First Online Video Closed Captioning Deadline Is Here

By Paul A. Cicelski

2012-09-20: Updated: 2015-03-31 18:45:48 FCC Takes First Steps Towards Telecom Foreign Ownership Reform

By Paul A. Cicelski

2012-09-05: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:09:40 Rabbit Season? Duck Season? No, Lowest Unit Charge Season!

By Scott R. Flick

2012-08-30: Updated: 2015-03-31 18:49:52 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick

2012-08-21: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:00:16 FCC Adopts Equipment-Related Consent Decree With Guitar Manufacturer to the Tune of a Quarter Million Dollars

By Paul A. Cicelski

2012-08-13: Updated: 2014-09-09 16:57:37 Client Alert: FCC Sets September 13, 2012 Deadline for Payment of FY 2012 Annual Regulatory Fees

By Paul A. Cicelski

2012-08-06: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:09:01 Online Public File for TV Launches and Stations Need to Adapt; Particularly Those with August 16th License Renewal Announcements

By Paul A. Cicelski and Lauren Lynch Flick

2012-07-30: Updated: 2015-03-31 18:53:25 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick

2012-07-27: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:09:02 Online Public File Stay Denied – Online Public Inspection File Interface Demonstrations Scheduled for Monday and Tuesday

By Paul A. Cicelski and Lauren Lynch Flick

2012-07-23: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:00:25 FCC Announces FY2012 Regulatory Fee Amounts

By Paul A. Cicelski

2012-07-18: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:02:24 FCC Conducts Demo of Its New Online Public Inspection File Interface

By Paul A. Cicelski and Lauren Lynch Flick

2012-07-12: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:02:26 FCC Denies NAB Online Public File Stay Request as Focus Moves to Court

By Paul A. Cicelski

2012-07-03: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:05:24 FCC Online Public/Political File Rules Are Effective August 2

By Paul A. Cicelski

2012-06-29: Updated: 2015-03-31 18:56:00 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick

2012-06-28: Updated: 2015-03-31 18:57:24 FCC Piles $65,000 in Fines on Small AM Station in Less Than a Year

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2012-06-22: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:08:40 Office of Management and Budget, Keeping in Character, Approves FCC Online Public File Rules

By Paul A. Cicelski

2012-06-21: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:10:39 Supreme Court Kicks the Indecency Can Down the Road

By Scott R. Flick

2012-06-15: Updated: 2017-03-06 18:17:22 Broadcasters Challenge FCC’s Proposed Online Public/Political File Rules on Multiple Fronts

By Paul A. Cicelski

2012-06-07: Updated: 2014-09-09 17:07:51 If the Broadcast/Newspaper Cross-Ownership Rule Falls, Will It Make a Sound?

By Scott R. Flick

2012-06-01: Updated: 2018-02-02 17:53:41 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Retransmission Consent (but were afraid to ask)

By Pillsbury's Comm Law Center Team

2012-05-31: Updated: 2015-04-01 17:09:16 FCC Enforcement Monitor

By Scott R. Flick

2012-05-25: Updated: 2018-02-02 17:49:40