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FCC Rules Requiring Broadcasters To Disclose Foreign-Sponsored Programming Become Effective

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Rules Effective Now for New Program Leasing Agreements, Although Appeal is Pending - The FCC has announced the effectiveness of rules that will now require broadcasters to disclose when foreign governments or their...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

FCC Adopts New Foreign Sponsorship Transparency Rules

In late April 2021, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted new rules that require on-air programming sponsored or furnished by a foreign government to contain a disclosure statement noting the foreign government...more

Perkins Coie

What to Expect From Acting Chairwoman Rosenworcel’s FCC

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Shortly after his inauguration, President Biden appointed Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel as acting chairwoman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Acting Chairwoman Rosenworcel is expected to pursue the...more

Jackson Walker

COVID-19 and Cameras in the Courtroom: Could the Pandemic and Emerging Technologies Usher in a New Era of Judicial Transparency?

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In Estes v. Texas, 381 U.S. 532 (1965), the Supreme Court overturned the fraud conviction of Billy Sol Estes, a political operative for Lyndon B. Johnson, holding that the allowance of cameras in the courtroom and televised...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

FCC Releases Details on Channel Sharing Permitted Outside of the Incentive Auction

After consistently calling for more transparency in the FCC rulemaking process during his time as a minority Commissioner, now Chairman Ajit Pai is making good on his promise. In a significant departure from the secrecy that...more

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