If you're a TV licensee looking to collect from the SESAC litigation, make sure you keep an eye out for a form you should be getting from the Television Music License Committee.… Continue Reading
After nearly a decade, the FAA has advised that it is no longer pursuing a proposal that would have inserted it deeply into the regulation of FM stations.… Continue Reading
Will geofencing really provide webcasting broadcasters a shield that they can deploy against royalty claims? The question is still on the table.… Continue Reading
Meet the RUFRN, possible successor to the SUFRN. A new NPRM reflects the FCC's continuing struggle to devise an ownership reporting mechanism that will give it what it wants.… Continue Reading
If money is being paid in return for the broadcast of particular content, that must be disclosed, even if it's government that's doing the paying.… Continue Reading
If you want to comment on the FCC's proposal to expand its online public file requirements to radio licensees, cable operators and satellite broadcast services, get your calendars out - the comment deadlines have been set.… Continue Reading
If you're planning to chip in your two cents' worth on the FCC's proposed redefinition of the MVPD universe, you're in luck: the comment deadlines have been extended.… Continue Reading
Attention, all you telecommunications carriers and interconnected VoIP providers! Your annual reports certifying compliance with the CPNI rules are due by March 2, 2015.… Continue Reading
That loud sound you just heard was probably the "cha-ching" resulting from the latest Greenhill Report on anticipated opportunities for broadcasters in the Incentive Auction.… Continue Reading
In the wake of an impressively cooperative response to the Commission's 2014 proposals, the FCC has established a new set of E911 location standards.… Continue Reading
Just a few years ago, technical constraints made it difficult to design equipment for the upper reaches of the millimeter wave bands. Since then, a corps of clever engineers have overcome the problems and applications have proliferated.… Continue Reading
The redefinition of "broadband" is meant to reflect changes in how people use their Internet connections. Much of that change can be summed up in one word: Netflix.… Continue Reading
The Incentive Auction may not start until sometime in 2016, but the Commission is facing - now - the monumental task of working out the myriad details that will govern the auction process.… Continue Reading