Dates to Remember
October 30, 2026
All EAS Participants must file ETRS Form One.... Read More
October 30, 2026 All EAS Participants must file ETRS Form One. November 4, 2026 Noncommercial FM Translator filing window opens at 12:01 am ET. November 17, 2026 All EAS Participants must receive and retransmit the National EAS Test scheduled to be sent at 2pm Eastern. November 17, 2026 Noncommercial FM Translator filing window closes at […]
Read More →A National EAS Test is scheduled for November 17, 2026 at 2:00 pm ET. If your participating station has not already filed the ETRS Form One in preparation for the test, today – October 30 – is the deadline to complete that filing. Form One tells the FCC about your current equipment, software, location, monitoring […]
Read More →As part of its ongoing Delete, Delete, Delete proceeding (yes, that proceeding is still open and active), the FCC recently cleaned up its EEO rules by deleting references to the requirement or documentation of the EEO Form 395-B, which was legally struck down in the courts over a year ago. A number of commenters in […]
Read More →Well respected broadcast consulting engineer Chuck Anderson has petitioned the FCC’s Media Bureau to amend its FM broadcast station spacing rules, and the FCC has asked for public comment on the proposal. There is no deadline to file comments, but if supported, the FCC’s next step would be to formally launch a proposed rulemaking to […]
Read More →A Class-A television station in Indiana has entered into a consent decree with the FCC’s Media Bureau for violations of the children’s television rules from the last license renewal cycle. The decree does not impose any reporting obligations but instead grants the station’s license renewal cycle contingent upon payment of a $28,000 voluntary contribution to […]
Read More →October 1, 2026 Deadline for all Full Power Commercial and Noncommercial Television stations to place their 2027-29 carriage election statement in the public file (and if applicable, email the election to any MVPD providers for which carriage is initially being sought or changed) and deadline for all Class-A and Low Power Television stations eligible for […]
Read More →The FCC announced a National EAS Test for November 17, 2026, at 2:20 pm ET. In advance of the test, all EAS participant broadcast stations must either update or file ETRS Form 1 by October 30, 2026. ETRS Form 2 must be filed on or before 2:20 pm ET November 19, 2026, to report test […]
Read More →On September 30, 2026, the Commission is expected to adopt an order revising the Commission’s National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rules to clarify which Commission actions meet the amended NEPA statute’s definition of Major Federal Action (MFA) and trigger required compliance with NEPA. Currently, new tower construction – for wireless or broadcast use – requires […]
Read More →Television station WGBP-TV was reassigned by Nielsen from the Designated Market Area (DMA) where its community of license is located (Columbus (GA)-Opelika) to the Atlanta DMA and tried to elect satellite carriage throughout both DMAs simultaneously. In its September 29, 2026 Memorandum Opinion & Order the Commission granted DISH Network’s Application for Review of a […]
Read More →Pursuant to section 73.671(d) of the Commission’s rules, the Media Bureau had referred five (5) TV station renewal applications to the Commission for assessment of whether the licensees complied with their obligation to offer programing designed to serve the educational and information needs of children (Core Programming) because they could not “demonstrate compliance with the […]
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