Dates to Remember
August 1, 2025
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On November 28, 2022, the FCC’s Media Bureau issued a public notice announcing that it would seek comment on a combined NAB/Xperi, Inc. petition to modify the FCC’s FM digital radio rules. The joint petition asks for adoption of an updated formula to determine and increase FM digital sideband power levels for stations transmitting digital […]
Read More →Yes, we know that 2023 is still a month away, but for broadcasters, it is a good time to mark a few things on your 2023 calendars. All broadcast stations will need to file biennial ownership reports in 2023 (these are due every odd year). Stations will need to report their ownership status as of […]
Read More →The FCC’s recent Report & Order changing the EAS rules was published in the Federal Register and the new rules will become effective December 12, 2022. The modified rules direct EAS participants – within one year of the effective date, so by December 12, 2023 — to transmit certain messages in an IP-based format rather […]
Read More →Annually, every December 1st, for those commercial and noncommercial full power, Class A or low power television stations that are transmitting ancillary/supplementary services, a report must be filed detailing those services and remitting any payments due. A few years ago, because most stations were not transmitting such services, the FCC stopped requiring all stations to […]
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 →This past summer, after the DC Circuit overruled the FCC’s attempt to require broadcasters to check foreign entity/agent federal databases as part of new foreign sponsorship identification rules, the FCC Chairwoman circulated a follow-up rulemaking in lieu of challenging the decision. That Second Notice of Proposed Rulemaking has now been adopted and published for comment […]
Read More →Earlier this month, the FCC adopted a Report & Order changing its EAS rules. The modified rules direct EAS participants, including radio broadcasters, television broadcasters, and operators of satellite, cable TV, and wireline video services, to transmit certain messages in an IP-based format rather than the versions in the legacy EAS format, which usually convey […]
Read More →Annually every December 1st, for those commercial and noncommercial full power, Class A or low power television stations that are transmitting ancillary/supplementary services, a report must be filed detailing those services and remitting any payments due. A few years ago, because most stations were not transmitting such services, the FCC stopped requiring all stations to […]
Read More →The Enforcement Bureau’s regional offices around the country have been regularly visiting stations and issuing notices of rule violations, especially in recent months. Agents from the Atlanta office visited an FM station in July, confirming that it was operating at an unauthorized location on a building rooftop three miles away from its licensed operation with […]
Read More →Due to damage associated with Hurricane Ian for broadcast stations in Florida and South Carolina, the FCC’s Media Bureau extended the October 11, 2022 deadline for 3rd Quarter public file uploads to December 12, 2022. The same deadline applies to Florida stations for their annual EEO public file report originally due October 1.
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