Dates to Remember
October 1, 2024
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October 1, 2024 Radio and TV Stations located in Florida, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Iowa, Missouri, Alaska, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Marianas Islands, Oregon and Washington: if five (5) full time employee threshold is met, prepare EEO public file report covering the period from October 1, 2023 – September 30, 2024, upload it to the […]
Read More →The FCC has previously issued a public notice announcing October 4, 2024 as the deadline for all EAS participants to complete and file Form One in the EAS Test Reporting System, which can be accessed here. Filers can complete this requirement by updating previously filed forms using the “My Filings” menu option and then selecting […]
Read More →The FCC Enforcement Bureau’s review of broadcast station EEO compliance at the mid-point of the 8-year license term is ongoing. For radio, these reviews began last summer for station employment units with 11 or more full-time employees. For television stations with five or more full-timers, reviews began this summer. The date for review is tied […]
Read More →Speaking of EEO, we are still getting emails and calls about the potential need to file EEO Form 395-B by the end of this month, and so wanted to repeat here that the FCC officially announced about one month ago that broadcasters do NOT need to do so. The future of that form, and any […]
Read More →For commercial stations, the September 26 regulatory fee deadline has passed, with any late fees having the privilege of paying a 25% penalty. The FCC’s order adoption process was later than normal, and all of the systems came on line several days later, but with data errors. Once those were reported to the FCC, the […]
Read More →September 2024 All commercial broadcast stations (unless exempt) will have to pay annual regulatory fees once the FCC issues the order and related public notices. Typically, the deadline to pay falls in the last third of the month. Failure to timely pay regulatory fees results in an automatic fine equal to 25% of the owed […]
Read More →As of publication time, the FCC had still not issued its Report & Order adopting annual regulatory fee amounts and setting deadlines for stations to remit those fees. We anticipate that Order sometime next week, with a likely deadline in the last third of the month for remitting fees. The FCC does not send notices […]
Read More →The FCC has issued a public notice announcing October 4, 2024 as the deadline for all EAS participants to complete and file Form One in the EAS Test Reporting System, which can be accessed here. Filers can complete this requirement by updating previously filed forms using the “My Filings” menu option and then selecting the […]
Read More →The FCC has officially announced that broadcasters will not have to file the new EEO Form 395-B form by this September 30. The notice confirms that the form was only to be filed after a Media Bureau public notice was published announcing the filing requirement, and since that notice has not issued, no filing will […]
Read More →The FCC received a significant number of Class A television, LPTV and TV translator major modification applications on August 20th, the first date that the television freeze was lifted for such filings. As of publication time, most of those had been accepted for filing and are awaiting FCC staff determination as to whether the changes […]
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