Publications

FCC Cable Television Rules - 2007
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Events

CableLabs Law & Technology Conference
March 6-7, 2008 Louisville, CO

Paul Glist will be a panelist providing the Washington Update.

PLI: Cable Television Law
March 3-4, 2008 San Francisco, CA

Refranchising, Franchising Administration and Franchise Transfers
Speaker: Wes Heppler

Washington Report
February 29, 2008 Meredith, NH

Paul Glist will speak on current regulatory and technology issues affecting the cable television and telecommunications industry as part of the Washington Report panel at the New England Cable & Telecommunications Association during its winter conference.

Intellectual Property Committee Brown Bag Lunch
February 20, 2008 Washington, D.C.

Paul Glist will be a panelist for the Federal Communication Bar Association Intellectual Property Committee speaking on Cable and Satellite Content Protection Technologies. 

Practising Law Institute - Cable Television Law 2008: Competition in Video, Internet & Telephony
January 28-29, 2008 New York, NY

DWT partner Maurita Coley will be participating in a panel discussion entitled "Cable Programming Regulation:  Broadcast Signal Carriage, Indecency, Children's and Political Programming and Advertising," at the Practising Law Institute's Cable Television Law 2008 Conference in New York City on January 28-29, 2008. The focus of the programs will be the legal issues raised by the competition in video, Internet, and telephone service that was stimulated by the 1996 Telecommunications Act and continues today, over a decade later. The assembled presenters will cover the latest-breaking cases and local, state, FCC and Congressional actions affecting your area of practice in this broadening field.

Advisory Bulletins

	FCC Imposes New Cable Television Customer Notice Requirement [Mar. 2008] read bulletin
	FCC Releases Text of Leased Access Order [Feb. 2008] read bulletin
	New FCC Telephone Privacy Rules Effective Dec. 8, 2007 [Dec. 2007] read bulletin
	FCC Now Accepting Applications for Non-Exclusive 3.6 GHz Wireless Licenses [Dec. 2007] read bulletin
	FCC Releases Text of New Digital Transition “Must-Carry” Order, NPRM [Dec. 2007] read bulletin
	November FCC Meeting – Cable Agenda Update [Nov. 2007] read bulletin
	FCC Proposes Vast Changes to the Federal Regulatory Scheme Governing Cable, Broadband and Telecommunications Pole Attachment Rates, Terms and Conditions [Nov. 2007] read bulletin
	Warning: Immediate Action Required by All Providers of Telephone or VoIP Services to Comply with New FCC CPNI Rules [Nov. 2007] read bulletin
	FCC Declares Exclusive Access Agreements Between Multichannel Distributors and Multiple-Dwelling Units Unenforceable [Nov. 2007] read bulletin
	FCC Applies Certain Competitive Franchising Rulings to Existing Cable Operators [Oct. 2007] read bulletin
	FCC Voids Exclusive Cable Service In Apartments [Oct. 2007] read bulletin
	FCC Releases Text of Ban Extension Order and New NPRM on “Tying” [Oct. 2007] read bulletin
	FCC Adopts Post-Digital Transition “Must-Carry” Rules, Extends Ban on Exclusive Programming Contracts, and Opens Inquiry Into “Tying” Agreements [Sept. 2007] read bulletin
	Increased Captioning Obligation for “Pre-Rule” Video Programming: Effective January 1, 2008 [Sept. 2007] read bulletin
	FCC Adopts Final Rules for 700 MHz Auction [August 2007] read bulletin
	Federal District Court Declares AT&T U-Verse to be Cable Service and Cable System [July 2007] read bulletin
	FCC Issues Rules Extending Hearing and Speech-Impaired Access Requirements (TRS) to VoIP Services [June 2007] read bulletin
	FCC Requests Comments on Changes to Its Commercial Leased Access and Program Carriage Rules [June 2007] read bulletin
	Second Circuit Rejects FCC’s “Fleeting Expletives” Policy; Questions Indecency Regime [June 2007] read bulletin
	U.S. Court of Appeals Rejects DBS Challenge to Kentucky Taxation of Multichannel Video Sales and Revenues [June 2007] read bulletin
	FCC Extends Hearing and Speech-Impaired Access Requirements (TRS) to VoIP Services [June 2007] read bulletin
	FCC Releases Details of Request for Comment on Must-Carry Rules Post 2009 Digital TV Transition [May 2007] read bulletin
	FCC Issues Report on Violent Television Programming and its Impact on Children [April 2007] read bulletin
	FCC Seeks Comment on Scope of Cable’s Must-Carry Obligations After 2009 Digital Television Transition [April 2007] read bulletin
	FCC Set to Examine Exclusive Video Service Contracts in MDUs [March 2007] read advisory
	California Public Utilities Commission Releases Final Decision on Rulemaking to Implement California’s New Video Franchising Statute [March 2007] read advisory
	Federal District Court Confirms Right Of Wireless Providers To Bring Facial Challenge To Municipal Ordinances Under Section 253 Of Communications Act [March 2007] read advisory
	FCC Issues Competitive Cable Franchising Order [March 2007] read advisory
	FCC Order Clarifies Interconnection Rights of Carriers Serving VoIP Providers [March 2007] read advisory
	FCC Issues New NPRM to Consider Further Extending Ban on Exclusive Cable Network Programming Contracts [Feb. 2007] read advisory
	REMINDER: VoIP and Broadband Internet Access Providers Face Approaching Compliance Deadlines Under CALEA [Feb. 2007] read advisory
	Commissioner Chong Releases Proposed Decision in Rulemaking to Implement California’s New Video Franchising Legislation [Jan. 2007] read advisory
	FCC Spectrum Auctions Update [Jan. 2007] read advisory
	FCC Asked to Eliminate Telecom Rate for Pole Attachments [Jan. 2007] read advisory
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News and Events

Davis Wright Tremaine and Cole, Raywid & Braverman Merge to Form Communications/Media/Technology Powerhouse [Nov. 2006] read more

 

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