Last October, two years after opening the docket, the FCC issued its First Report and Order in the AM Revitalization docket. As I reported two years ago [See: AM Broadcasting Revitalization,] the FCC sought comment on a variety of proposals to adapt the AM band more ...

For those of us old enough to remember when broadcast television and the neighborhood movie house were the only way see a movie, TV or short film, you might remember this then-popular joke. The Lone Ranger and Tonto were surrounded by fierce hostile "Native Americans." ...

Further Lessons in The Tricky World Of Tying Down Oversized Personalities I have written before about the need to be especially careful when crafting non-compete agreements, especially when it comes to talent. See: Non-Competes: Look This Way Before You Cross The ...

Periodically, the question invariably comes in: Can we use our station's music library to produce commercials for a good client? Many seem to think that their existing ASCAP, BMI or SESAC agreements allow them to use the music they cover for any purpose, whether it ...

What Are They thinking? In the last article, I warned that the FCC is poised to require radio stations to post their ('formerly "local") public files to the FCC online public file Internet portal. Taking this step would expose over 15,000 local radio stations, some ...

Exactly one week before Christmas, the FCC announced its holiday headache gift to radio broadcasters. Not that it wasn't expected. The Commission had announced its intentions to apply the online public file rule to radio in a Public Notice on August 7th, 2014. ...

"Happy New Year!" The greeting is barely across our lips before it's time for our first FCC regulatory responsibility of 2015. The FCC may be acting like the "one-to-many" broadcasting model is old hat, but it has not let up on keeping broadcasting the most regulated ...

The Winner -- Third-Party Issue Ads A recent radio news story reported that over a billion (that's right, with a "B") dollars has been spent so far in this off-year mid-term election cycle. In Audie Cornish's interview with Elizabeth Wilner of Kantar Media about the ...

On October 10th, every broadcast licensee must place in their public file their issues and programs list for the period covering July 1st through September 30th, 2014. Now would be a good time to refocus on your public affairs oriented programming plan and execute it ...