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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters:  February 3, 2025 to February 7, 2025

By David Oxenford & Keenan Adamchak on February 9, 2025

Posted in Advertising Issues, AM Radio, Broadcast Auctions, Broadcast Performance Royalty, Digital Television, EEO Compliance/Diversity, FCC Fees, FCC Fines, FM Radio, FM Translators and LPFM, General FCC, Intellectual Property, Internet Radio, Music Rights, Noncommercial Broadcasting, On Line Media, Payola and Sponsorship Identification, Podcasting, Programming Regulations, Public Interest Obligations/Localism, Television

• Payola on broadcast stations suddenly was in the news this past week.  Early in the week, Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters:  January 20, 2025 to January 24, 2025

By David Oxenford & Keenan Adamchak on January 26, 2025

Posted in Cable Carriage, Digital Radio, Digital Television, EEO Compliance/Diversity, Fairness Doctrine, FM Radio, General FCC, License Renewal, Political Broadcasting, Programming Regulations, Public Interest Obligations/Localism, Television

• President Trump issued several Executive Orders that could affect FCC decision-making, including an Executive Order suspending government diversity, equity, and

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters:  January 13, 2025 to January 17, 2025

By David Oxenford & Keenan Adamchak on January 18, 2025

Posted in AM Radio, Assignments and Transfers, Digital Television, Emergency Communications, Fairness Doctrine, FCC Fines, FM Radio, FM Translators and LPFM, General FCC, License Renewal, Political Broadcasting, Programming Regulations, Public Interest Obligations/Localism, Television, Tower Issues

• The FCC’s Enforcement and Media Bureaus, under a new Docket opened by the Commission called “Preserving the First Amendment,” dismissed

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