Dates to Remember
May 7, 2025
Deadline to file comments in the ATSC 3.0 Transiti... Read More
HCCB’s managing partner Joe Chautin will be attending the NAB convention in Las Vegas from April 13-16. If you would like to and have time to meet, please reach out to Joe at jchautin@hardycarey.com or 504-439-2350. Joe looks forward to seeing you there!
Read More →On March 22, 2024, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau issued a public notice commencing a random audit of radio and television station EEO compliance over the past two years. Approximately 250 stations are included on the audit list. Usually, the FCC sends the audit notice by mail to stations. Other than that notice, the only way […]
Read More →The FCC is getting into the two-step authentication process when it comes to its payment systems. Per a public notice detailing the new authentication processes, the FCC’s Office of Managing Director announced that beginning tomorrow, March 29, 2024, logging in to the FCC’s Commission Registration System (CORES) will require a two-step authentication using a code […]
Read More →Remember the Progressive Insurance commercial where the life coach, in an attempt to avoid a student’s awkward outburst at seeing someone with blue hair, carefully mutters “we all see it, we all see it.” It doesn’t work of course. The honest but oblivious student blurts out “he has blue hair.” Reading the FCC’s recent Report […]
Read More →March 11, 2024 Deadline for comments in the FCC’s Application Prioritization rulemaking Deadline for all broadcast stations with SAGE EAS Equipment to prioritize the CAP-enabled emergency alert message if one is received April 1, 2024 Radio and TV Stations located in Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, Delaware & Pennsylvania: if five (5) full time employee threshold […]
Read More →The FCC has announced March 11 as the deadline for filing comments in the pending Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing an application prioritization rule based upon applicants certifying that they air certain amounts of local programming. The FCC’s announced goal with the proposed rule is to incentivize stations to support “local journalism” and provide programming […]
Read More →By a 3-2 vote, the FCC adopted a Report & Order reinstating EEO Form 395-B to collect race, gender and ethnicity of broadcast station employees. The form was thrown out as unconstitutional over 20 years ago when the data was used to enforce hiring quotas, and then suspended after another court rejected the FCC’s attempt […]
Read More →On February 1, the Media Bureau issued a public notice announcing the procedures being followed in processing the 1,336 low power FM applications filed during the early December 2023 filing window. The notice provides important details about singleton and mutually exclusive applications, amendments, and settlement agreements, including the timing for certain of those actions. Singleton […]
Read More →The FCC’s rule requiring a mid-term review of EEO compliance for broadcast stations kicked in last June 1 for radio stations and will begin this June 1 for television stations. Since license renewals are staggered by state over a three-year period, with radio starting first, and TV a year later, the mid-term review occurs using […]
Read More →January 31, 2024 Web Streaming Stations: deadline to remit annual license fee and related statement of account with SoundExchange for the statutory license allowing streaming of sound recordings on the web. Payment can be made on SoundExchange’s online filing portal “Licensee Direct.” February 1, 2024 Radio and TV Stations located in New Jersey, New York, […]
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