Telecommunications, Cable And Broadcast

Gregg Skall’s Legal Memos For California Broadcasters

Memos

• California License Renewal and Licensee Certifications
• California Political Broadcast Manual
• FTC Revised Guidelines on Endorsements & Testimonials The Rules Have Changed – Ignorance Is Not Bliss
• The Coordinated Contributions Rule
• Heads Up - What’s a Telephone Recording – Digital Delay Systems
• Lack of Candor
• The Rules on Alcohol Advertising - Served Straight Up
• Broadcasting Voicemail without permission? No Way!
• The Station Log
• This Hybrid is Not a Car!
• A New Direction for AM Directionals
• What are station options in weighing how to handle "hybrid" ads?
• Equal Opportunities 101
• Contents and Retention Periods
• Broadcasting Telephone Calls
• Tips on Food Supplement Advertising
• Family Broadcasters, Pay Attention: Sons and Daughters; Strike Out On Your Own
• Payola And Plugola (FCC Fines Made Easy!)
• Dude! You Can't Advertise Smokes, Right?
• Dude! You Can't Advertise Smokes, Right? - Part II
• The Coordinated Contributions Rule
• Streaming Your Station on the Internet? Decision Due April 2. What's it going to be, Bunky?
• Drug and Alcohol Testing
• Are You a Twit? What's Your Social Media IQ?
• FCC Issues Fines for EEO Lapses
• The FTC May Become Your Most Important Regulator
• The Main Studio Rules
• Non-Competes: Look This Way Before You Cross The Street
• Mining for Advertising Dollars? Open a new interactive mine! But be careful!
• Contests: The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intentions
• Political Advertising Sponsorship ID – How do I comply with the Sponsorship ID rules?
• Prohibited Product Advertising
• Product Placement
• Considerations and Consequences of a “Going Private”
  Transaction Part I -
• Considerations and Consequences of a “Going Private”
  Transaction Part II -
• The Local Public File: Contents and Retention Periods
• Local Assessment vs. Local Coverage of Issues
• Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
• Issues/Programs List Requirements
• Main Studio and Public File
• Political Broadcast Manual (PDF)
• EEO Regulations for Broadcasters (PDF)
• Local Public Files (PDF)
• FCC Tightens Indecency Enforcement
• CA EEO PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
• Advertising Primer: Protecting Your Best Client, The Audience
• Children's Television Programming Commercial Limitations
• Broadcasting Telephone Calls
• Main Studio Rule and Staffing
• Covenants Not to Compete
• Drug and Alcohol Testing
• Children's Programming
• Tax Free Sales & Exchanges
• Truthfulness in Programming and Advertising: What Every Broadcaster Should Know

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Gregg P. Skall is Washington Counsel to the California Broadcasters Association and is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of the firm of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC. He received his law degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1969 and his undergraduate degree from Ohio State University in 1966. Mr. Skall has extensive experience in the telecommunications industry.

He has orchestrated scores of broadcast property transactions involving assets worth millions of dollars. He has supervised the formation of an international joint venture for a nation-wide data network and conceived and directed the successful campaign of the Daytime Broadcaster's Association to expand hours of operation. He organized the coalition of radio broadcasters to obtain major policy changes before the FCC concerning the main studio rule and has represented FM subcarrier users for non-broadcast applications, such as paging, since the industry began with Commission rule changes almost a decade ago. He frequently represents parties before the Commission,

Executive Branch agencies and the U.S. Congress to obtain desired policy objectives. Prior to private practice, Mr. Skall served as Chief Counsel for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration in the U.S. Department of Commerce and Acting General Counsel to the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy in the Executive Office of the President.

While in those positions he had legal responsibility for the agency programs and policies for telecommunications in the commercial and government sectors. He has also served in the Office of Opinions and Review, Federal Communications Commission. The National Journal has recognized him as one of the leading radio spectrum lobbyists in Washington. He has served on the Pike and Fischer Radio Regulation Advisory Board, the leading Communications Law legal research library and has taught Telecommunications Law and Policy at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Mr. Skall is a recognized writer and frequent speaker on topics of FCC administrative process, mass media, and common carrier communications. He is communications counsel to several other state broadcasters associations and writes monthly columns for several state broadcasting association newsletters.

(Contact information: Gregg P. Skall at 202) 857-4441 or email.)