Dates to Remember

Posted on August 31st, 2017 by

September 8, 2017

Post-Incentive Auction First Priority Filing Window Closes

September 27, 2017

EAS National Test date; midnight deadline for all broadcast stations to file EAS Form Two.

October 1, 2017

AM & FM Stations in Florida, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Iowa and Missouri: if five full-time employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and post same in public file as well as post on station website. NCE Stations in Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands Only: your Form 323-E ownership report that would have been due on this date has been suspended until December 1, 2017.

AM & FM Stations in Alaska, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Mariana Islands, Oregon and Washington: if five full-time employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and place 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 Iowa and Missouri: if five full-time employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and post same in public file as well as on station website and 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 Florida, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Alaska, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Mariana Islands, Oregon and Washington: if five full-time employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and post same in online public file and station website.

TV & Class A/LPTV Stations Entitled to Must-Carry: deadline for making cable and DBS carriage elections for the 2018-2020 three-year carriage cycle.

October 10, 2017

TV, Class A, AM & FM Stations (commercial & noncommercial): complete 3rd Quarter 2017 issues/program reports and place in public file.

TV & Class A stations (commercial only) and any LPTV station with must-carry rights: complete and electronically file via LMS the FCC Form 398 Children’s TV Programming Report for 3rd Quarter 2017, and also compile and post to the public file records relating to the station’s compliance with children’s programming commercial limits for 2nd Quarter 2017

Class A stations only: complete and post to your online public file a certification of ongoing Class A eligibility.

November 23, 2017

Deadline for all broadcast stations to file EAS Form 3 in ETRS as part of EAS National Test.

November 24, 2017

Deadline for TV stations with winning auction bids that did not have pre-auction channel share agreements but preserved a right to enter into a post-auction channel share agreement to enter into a channel share agreement and file it with a minor modification application to modify the station’s transmitter site to the shared location.

December 1, 2017

Deadline for all AM, FM, TV and Class A stations to file a biennial ownership report reflecting ownership information as of October 1, 2017.

Deadline for all digital television licensees to file the ancillary/supplementary services Form 317 in LMS.