‘SOUP-TO-NUTS’ LEGAL SEMINAR TO BE OFFERED LAWYERS AT NAB
Legal seminar offered lawyers for last 20 years on day before start of NAB convention is being totally revamped this spring to focus on “a soup-to-nuts” station audit to help attorneys advise their clients “on daily issues from antitrust to zoning.” That’s word to go out SOON to prospective attendees from sponsors NAB, American Bar Assn. Forum on Communications Law and, for first time this year, Federal Communications Bar Assn. Titled “Representing Your Local Broadcaster,” seminar is scheduled April 22 at Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. Meanwhile, NAB said FCC Chmn. Powell would speak at Chairman’s Breakfast April 24. Regulatory panel later in day will include FCC Comrs. Furchtgott-Roth, Ness, Tristani.
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Only 2 participants will be on each of 8 “inside/out” panels -- attorney employed at station group, another representing station clients. “After 20 years, we decided to go back to the roots and provide a practical, day-to-day, nuts-and-bolts effort to assist” station executives, he said.
Lawyers attending will be provided with 50-page audit containing questions and problems that station mgrs. regularly face -- which panelists will attempt to answer. Focus will be steered toward such day-to-day issues, and regulatory problems no longer will be prime focus, although luncheon panel is scheduled featuring FCC and congressional staffers. Other panels will cover station procedures, sales and marketing, programming and promotions, human resources, news, operations and engineering, finances and administration, Internet and Webcasting.