Dates to Remember
January 10, 2026
TV, Class A, AM & FM Stations (commercial... Read More
In an action mandated by Congress, the FCC published a January 7, 2025 order increasing FCC application fees based upon inflation and increases in the Consumer Price Index. These adjustments are required every two years. The application fee increase in 2022 was nearly 12%. For 2024, there is a 17% increase. The new fee increase […]
Read More →The FCC published its 7th Report on Ownership of Broadcast Stations, compiling data from biennial ownership reports filed by all broadcast stations every two years. The report reflects data on the gender, race, and ethnicity of broadcast station owners as of the 2023 biennial ownership report, and focuses on “attributable” and “majority” ownership interests. The […]
Read More →January 10, 2025 TV, Class A, AM & FM Stations (commercial & noncommercial): deadline to complete and upload to online public file the 4th Quarter 2024 issues/program lists and any foreign sponsorship identification reports Class A TV Stations Only: deadline to complete and post to your online public file the 4th Quarter 2024 certification of […]
Read More →Each of us at Hardy, Carey, Chautin & Balkin, LLP wish you a blessed, productive and prosperous 2025! We look forward to the privilege of serving you in the year to come.
Read More →Jessica Rosenworcel’s tenure as Chairwoman was often marked by proposed new regulations for broadcasters and, in other cases, even reinstated regulations. She will leave behind several unfinished rulemakings – i.e., regulation of artificial intelligence in political ads, new treatment of some LPTV stations as full-power television stations, application processing prioritization to promote localism – each […]
Read More →The surest way for full power and Class A television stations to have issues with license renewals is to forget or incorrectly report compliance with the FCC’s children’s television rules. The renewal application contains important certifications about station compliance with the rule limiting the amount of commercial matter during children’s programming targeting children 12 years […]
Read More →The FCC announced that the new FM Booster local program origination rules adopted in November 2024 will take effect January 13, 2025. The new rules allow FM boosters to originate three minutes of each hour to programming different from the content of the primary station they are retransmitting. Designed to hyper-localize content for groups of […]
Read More →The FCC is sunsetting the ability to search for old broadcast applications in its CDBS database. CDBS was used before LMS for a few decades for filing broadcast applications and contains significant application data and file numbers. While most applications and some portions of the application information have been migrated to LMS station record files, […]
Read More →December 1, 2024 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, 2023 – November 30, 2024, upload it to […]
Read More →Everyone at Hardy, Carey, Chautin & Balkin, LLP is thankful for the trust you have placed in our firm and the years of relationships that have grown from serving you. May your Thanksgiving include the blessings of family and recognition of the great freedoms we enjoy!
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