FCC Adopts Rules Requiring TV Stations to Keep Public File on Website - and Adopts New Requirements
Thursday, 29 November 2007 07:19
The FCC today adopted new requirements for television broadcasters to quarterly file a report with the FCC quantifying their service to the public.  The order also requires that stations keep their public file on their website, if they have a website.  Broadcasters will also be required to broadcast twice each day a notice as to how listeners can find their public file.  This order resolves some of the issues raised in a rulemaking proceeding (about which we wrote here) begun over 7 years ago as part of the rules to govern TV's digital transition.  Yet these new rules apply to analog as well as digital television operations.  In fact, the public file rule goes into effect 60 days after the publication of the FCC's order in the Federal Register.
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Performance Royalties Bills Introduced
Tuesday, 18 December 2007 00:00
In the House, the bill was introduced by Reps. Howard Berman (D-CA) and Darrell Issa (R-CA), while in the Senate the effort is being spearheaded by Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT). The Senate bill is co-sponsored by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and John Conyers (D-MI).

Broadcast stations would, under the bill, be allowed to use a statutory license to make one annual payment at a government-set rate. If they don't choose that option, they'll have to negotiate rights separately with each copyright owner whose music they want to use
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EEOC: Using Testing to Make Employment Selection Decisions Presents Substantial Legal Risk
Wednesday, 26 December 2007 11:11

On December 3, 2007, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a Fact Sheet on “Employment Tests and Selection Procedures” that puts employers on notice of the legal risks inherent in using tests as part of the screening process for hiring and promotion decisions.

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Feds share coupons to help TV transition
Wednesday, 02 January 2008 00:00
Millions of $40 government coupons become available Tuesday to help low-tech television owners buy special converter boxes for older TVs that might not work after the switch to digital broadcasting.

Beginning Feb. 18, 2009, anyone who does not own a digital set and still gets their programming via over-the-air antennas will no longer receive a picture.

That's the day the television industry completes its transition from old-style analog broadcasting to digital.
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FCC MUST STUDY BIRD-TOWER COLLISIONS
Tuesday, 19 February 2008 00:00
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday sided with conservation groups that claimed the FCC violated government rules by approving communications towers that threaten migratory birds.
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