By Eve K. Reed on Posted in Advertising Issues,Broadcast AttributionNew York, once a battleground in the fight over whether fantasy sports are legal, has returned to the spotlight once again. Those who have watched this issue may recall that the New York legislature passed a law legalizing and regulating fantasy sports in 2016. This ended a legal fight between fantasy operators and the New… Continue Reading
By Eve K. Reed and Ari Meltzer on Posted in Broadcast RegulationThe FCC’s Enforcement Bureau and broadcaster Univision have entered into a Consent Decree under which Univision will pay a $20,000 civil penalty for broadcasting five instances of a “simulated” EAS tone as part of a radio broadcast. The Consent Decree indicates that on January 28, 2014, the hosts of a Spanish-language radio show in New… Continue Reading
By Eve K. Reed and Ari Meltzer on Posted in Advertising Issues,Broadcast RegulationThe FCC is standing behind its proposed forfeitures against Viacom and ESPN for allegedly misusing the EAS tones in a movie trailer. As we previously wrote, in March 2014, the FCC proposed almost $2 million in combined fines against Viacom, NBCUniversal, and ESPN based on allegations that these programmers repeatedly transmitted a trailer for the… Continue Reading
By Kathryne Dickerson and Eve K. Reed on Posted in Broadcast Regulation,ContestsOn March 20, 2014, the FCC fined two Indiana radio station licensees a total of $12,000 for failing to conduct a contest “substantially as announced.” The contest at issue, the “Par 3 Shoot Out,” involved two stages – an online golf competition for which the station awarded weekly prizes consisting of Victoria National Golf Club… Continue Reading
By Eve K. Reed and Ari Meltzer on Posted in Broadcast RegulationThe FCC is cracking down hard on the use of EAS tones in non-emergency situations, proposing more than $1.9 million in combined fines against Viacom, NBCUniversal, and ESPN (the “Companies”) based on complaints alleging that the Companies repeatedly broadcast a single movie trailer that included real or simulated EAS tones. These largest proposed fines to… Continue Reading
