Dates to Remember
August 1, 2025
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January 3, 2023 All Broadcast Stations that are EAS Participants – first day that the EAS Test Reporting System (ETRS) will be open for the required filing of ETRS Form One. January 9, 2023 Extended comment deadline in FCC’s 2nd NPRM on its foreign government sponsorship identification rules. January 10, 2023 TV, Class A, AM […]
Read More →Our very best wishes to our clients and newsletter readers in the new year. May your successes be many! We are thankful for the distinct privilege to assist commercial and noncommercial broadcasters throughout the United States as they serve the public, and look forward to assisting you during 2023.
Read More →The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau issued a December 15, 2022 public notice announcing that EAS participants must file their 2022 EAS Test Reporting System (ETRS) Form One no later than February 28, 2023. The EAS rules require that all EAS participants file Form One every year, but with the cancellation of the […]
Read More →By law, the FCC must adjust all of its filing fees every two years based upon increases in the Consumer Price Index. A December 16, 2022 Order announces the latest round of increases, which average out to about an 11.6% increase in fees across the board. For example, ownership reports due next December 1, 2023 […]
Read More →The FCC has extended the comment and reply comment deadlines in its Second Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to further amend the Foreign Sponsorship Identification Rule. Comments must now be filed by January 9, 2023, with reply comments due January 24, 2023. The new rulemaking aims to specify exactly how a station must perform its foreign […]
Read More →By January 31, 2023, commercial full power and Class-A TV stations must prepare and file children’s television reports for 2022 and upload children’s television commercial limits certifications to their public file for all of 2022. Failure to timely file the annual children’s television report, or the reporting of less than the required amount of core […]
Read More →Statutorily, the FCC is required to review its broadcast ownership rules every four years to determine whether they still serve the public interest. With little fanfare, the Media Bureau announced the next quadrennial review on December 22, 2022 in order to meet the statutory requirement. This latest review comes even though the 2018 review remains […]
Read More →Nearly a year after being introduced, the Low Power Protection Act has been approved in the Senate and House, and presented to the President for signature. The text of the legislation can be reviewed here. The Act is designed to protect low power television stations in smaller and more rural markets from being displaced. The […]
Read More →December 1, 2022 Radio and TV Stations located in Alabama, Georgia, Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont: if five (5) full time employee threshold is met, prepare EEO public file report covering the period from December 1, 2021 – November 30, 2022, upload it to […]
Read More →The FCC has set December19, 2022 and January 3, 2023 as the dates for comments and reply comments on its Second Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to further amend the Foreign Sponsorship Identification Rule. In the new rulemaking, the FCC wants to specify exactly how a station must perform its foreign entity diligence by mandating that […]
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