Dates to Remember
July 7, 2025
Deadline to file comments responding to the FCC’s... Read More
The FCC would like to hear from broadcasters on two significant issues. On the first, the FCC has asked for comments by July 22, 2013 on an ownership study submitted to the FCC by the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC) in late May. The MMTC report is titled “The Impact of Cross Media Ownership […]
Read More →FM translator applicants that remain in Auction 83 have only a few more weeks to reach settlement agreements with other applicants with whom they are mutually exclusive, or file technical amendments that will eliminate their mutual exclusivity and allow for a grant of their application as a singleton. The deadline for doing so is July […]
Read More →June 24, 2013 marked the start of a limited filing window for all auction 94 winning bidders to complete and file applications for construction permits with the FCC. The filing window will close at midnight EDT on July 24, 2013. In addition to providing the technical and legal information in the application, applicants must also […]
Read More →The FCC has fined a Houston, Texas-based cable operator $2.25 Million because it retransmitted broadcast television signals without first obtaining the consent of the stations whose signals it was using. The FCC had previously warned the cable operator and also conducted a full investigation of the cable operator after receiving complaints from four TV stations […]
Read More →At its June 27th open meeting, the FCC Acting Chair and two sitting Commissioners got an update and progress report on the Incentive Auction rulemaking from the Incentive Auction Task Force. If Commissioner Rosenworcel’s issued statement is any measure, there hasn’t been much progress. Rosenworcel said that “we are at the early stages” of conducting […]
Read More →In most cases when items are missing from a station’s public file, the FCC only has sympathy when a natural disaster or some equally momentous circumstance has caused their loss. We’ve even seen a situation where even the death of a former employee that exclusively prepared public file items did not warrant any leniency from […]
Read More →July 1 & 16, 2013: AM & FM Stations in California: air your PRE-filing announcements. TV, Class A & LPTV Stations in Illinois & Wisconsin: air your PRE-filing announcements. July 1 & 16, and August 1 & 16, 2013: AM & FM Stations in Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah & Wyoming: air your POST- […]
Read More →After more than a decade since the last filing opportunity for new low power FM stations, the FCC has announced a 15-day LPFM filing window for this fall. The window will begin on October 15, 2013 and close at 6 pm EDT on October 29, 2013. Though LPFM stations must operate non-commercially, applicants will be […]
Read More →Because of low budgets and high staff turnover as well as a desire to foster continued interest and training in broadcasting by the younger generation, the FCC has announced a new and more lenient enforcement policy for certain rule violations by college radio stations that are student-run. The new policy is significant and groundbreaking, and […]
Read More →The FCC’s freeze on the ability of full power and Class A stations to expand their facilities is now nearly two months old. And despite loud calls and heavy lobbying by the National Association of Broadcasters and others, the FCC seems quite content to leave the freeze in place for what could be an extended […]
Read More →
