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Webinar: Cybersecurity Framework Impact on Operations
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FREE WEBINAR – Broadcasters Online: A Legal Guide to the Cyber-Jungle
Your station pays for a professional photographer to take head shots of you most popular DJ or news anchor for use in a mailer and in your lobby. Can you use that photo on your website?
Your station buys syndicated programming; can you stream it on your... Read More.
STELA reauthorization moving forward in House
One of the top issues in front of television broadcasters in early 2014 is, essentially, a satellite television issue. STELA (Satellite Television Expansion and Localism Act) is a bill that allows for satellite television companies to provide distant broadcast signals, which in the late... Read More.
Broadcasters face JSA trouble at FCC
While radio and television broadcasters fend off a performance royalty, drastic changes to retransmission consent negotiations and advertising tax deduction changes in the halls of Congress, the Federal Communications Commission is proving to be equally challenging.
The voluntary television spectrum auctions looms in 2015 but... Read More.
Sage ENDEC problem leads to missed weekly test
From State EAS Chairman Ed Brouder:
[Some] stations did not receive the FEMA weekly test of the Emergency Alert System on Monday. Upon checking, FEMA discovered a problem unique to users of the... Read More.
Advertising tax deductibility challenge looms in 2014
A new issue has been added to the now standard mix of issues facing New Hampshire’s broadcasters. The “usual suspects” are still present; retransmission consent, the television spectrum auction and reallocation (which has been delayed until 2015) and radio’s performance tax.
Congressman Dave Camp (R-Mich.)... Read More.
Deadline for NH to file Annual EEO Public File Report – Dec. 1
The following advisory from Pillsbury law references the December 1, 2013 deadline for all non-exempt radio and television stations in New Hampshire.
If you have any questions regarding your filing, you can call the NHAB’s Federal... Read More.
NHAB files ex parte letter re: TV political files online
The New Hampshire Association of Broadcasters, along with 46 other State Broadcasters Associations, joined in filing with the FCC an ex parte letter in continuing opposition to the requirement that television stations post their political... Read More.
FCC issues advisory regarding EAS tone usage
The Federal Communications Commission is coming down hard on Turner Broadcasting and CBS/NBC station WNKY, licensed to Bowling Green, Kentucky due to misuse of the Emergency Alert System tones.
This article from MediaBistro explains... Read More.
FCC announces Revitalization of AM NPRM
On October 31, 2013 the Federal Communications Commission released a much anticipated Notice for Proposed Rule Making regarding the "Revitalization of the AM Service"
The NPRM includes many changes that AM owners have been clamoring for:
an exclusive filing window for FM translators