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 Memos

• Political Broadcast Manual (PDF)
• What Every Builder and Developer Needs to Know About Telecommunications
• EEO Regulations for Broadcasters (PDF)
• Candidate Agreement for Political Advertisements (form)
• Agreement for Non-candidate, Issues Advertisements (form)
• Federal Candidates, Refuse to Acknowledge Receipt of Policy/Rate Disclosures (form)
• Actual Schedule of Broadcasts (form)
• 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
• 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 expertise 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.)