Dates to Remember

Posted on February 24th, 2017 by

March 13, 2017

TV & Class A Stations Changing Channels Post-Auction: FCC work shop on post-auction procedures; time and web access details forthcoming.

April 1, 2017:

AM & FM Stations in Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Delaware & Pennsylvania: if full-time employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and place same in public file as well as post on station website.

AM & FM Stations in Texas: if full-time employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and post same in public file as well as post on station website. If station has 11 or more full-time employees, prepare and electronically file mid-term EEO Form 397 and place copy of filed report in your public inspection file. NCE Stations Only: your Form 323-E ownership report that would have been due on this date has been suspended until December 1, 2017.

TV & Class A Stations in Indiana, Kentucky & Tennessee: if five (5) full-time station employment unit employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and post same in online public file as well as post on station website and prepare and electronically file mid-term EEO Form 397 via the License Management System (LMS). NCE Stations Only: your Form 323-E ownership report that would have been due on this date has been suspended until December 1, 2017.

TV & Class A Stations in Delaware & Pennsylvania: if five (5) full-time station employment unit employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and post same in online public file. NCE Stations Only: your Form 323-E ownership report that would have been due on this date has been suspended until December 1, 2017.

TV & Class A Stations in Texas: if full-time employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and post same in online public file as well as post on station website.

April 10, 2017

TV, Class A, AM & FM Stations (commercial & noncommercial): complete 1st quarter 2017 issues/program reports. TV & Class A stations post the report to your online public file. AM & FM Stations place in your public file (if already moved online, place in online public file).

TV & Class A stations (commercial only): complete and electronically file via LMS the FCC Form 398 Children’s TV Programming Report for 1st Quarter 2017. Your report should be automatically linked by the FCC to your online public file. Also compile and post to online public file records relating to station’s compliance with children’s programming commercial limits.

Class A TV Stations Only: complete and post to your online public file certification of ongoing Class A eligibility.