3rd Quarter - Report

MEREDITH CORPORATION for MEREDITH CORPORATION

Firm
Client
Income
—
Expenses
$90,000
Expense method
C: businesses, Internal Revenue Code section 162(e)

What was lobbied

3 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.

Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV COM

S.912 Television Consumer Freedom Act of 2013 - opposed any changes to the current retransmission consent law and provisions to require broadcasters to send identical signals to cable or risk loss of license. Other issues with no separate Bill Numbers or Titles assigned at present time: * Retransmission ConsentOther issues with no separate Bill Numbers or Titles assigned at present time: * Spectrum Auctions and Allocations * Political Advertising * Joint Sales Agreements

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
JERRY HADENFELDT —

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

Bills named: S. 912 (113th)

Advertising ADV

Issues with no separate Bill Titles assigned at present time: * Advertising expense tax deductibility - support the continued current, full deduction for advertising expenditures.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
JERRY HADENFELDT —

Contacted: SENATE; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Postal POS

HR 2748 - Postal Reform Act of 2013 - Chairman Issa's postal reform bill, generally supported. S.1486 - Postal Reform Act of 2013 - Support generally and opposed to provisions to allow Postal Board of Governors to unilaterally set postage rates and any change to the current CPI-U rate cap.Other issues with no separate Bill Numbers or Titles assigned at present time: * Postal Board of Governors on the exigency rate case - opposed to a rate increase above the CPI-U increase allowed by existing law.

LobbyistCovered position, as disclosed
JERRY HADENFELDT —

Contacted: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; SENATE

Bills named: H.R. 2748 (113th), S. 1486 (113th)

Shown as published by the Senate Office of Public Records and the House Clerk under the Lobbying Disclosure Act. The official filing is the record; open it for the full form.