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April 8, 2024
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Full power television and Class A television licensees who have become accustomed to having their public files online are now faced with another casualty of the shutdown of the federal government. The FCC has taken offline all of its online portals, including online public files. This means that nothing can be uploaded to the online […]
Read More →July 1 & 16, and August 1 & 16, 2013: AM & FM Stations in Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah & Wyoming: air your POST- filing announcements. TV, Class A & LPTV Stations in Michigan & Ohio: air your POST-filing announcements. August 1, 2013: AM & FM Stations in California file your renewal application […]
Read More →We’ll have more precise details in next month’s newsletter, but annual regulatory fees for commercial broadcasters will be due sometime during the first half of September. Sometime during August, the FCC will take several actions on the regulatory fee front, including adopting a Report & Order on the fees, populating its Fee Finder website with […]
Read More →At the request of College Broadcasters, Inc., the FCC has agreed to extend by 15 days the deadline to file reply comments in its proceeding addressing how it should enforce or change its indecency policies. Reply comments can now be filed through August 2, 2013.
Read More →Following are the trend lines for the past three months for the broadcast stations, according to the FCC’s published broadcast station totals from March 31, 2013 and June 30, 2013 tracking the number of licensed stations. On the radio side, two AM stations have gone dark, three more commercial FM stations are on the air, […]
Read More →Many broadcast stations have auxilliary licenses in addition to their main station license, often to assist in transmitting the broadcast signal from the studio to the transmitter site. These “STL” licenses are automatically renewed with a station’s main license, and although the annual regulatory fees associated with these licenses are very low ($10), the fines […]
Read More →TV license renewals are providing a steady stream of “revenue” for the FCC’s coffers. Previously, we’ve reported on a number of Class A television stations being fined for not filing quarterly FCC Form 398 Children’s Television Reports. Those stations continue to receive fines, though they have an option to return to low power television status […]
Read More →Mark it on your calendar. On July 22, 2013, the FCC made an attempt to be transparent about its plans for an incentive auction, in the form of a blog entry and public notice. As has been the case from the start, there are many questions posed and no answers being given. However, the FCC […]
Read More →After a lengthy investigation, the FCC and a broadcaster have entered into a consent decree related to violations of the FCC’s sponsorship identification rules. Those rules have certainly not been a hotbed of enforcement activity by the FCC in recent years, but this case serves as a good example that a complaint to the FCC […]
Read More →In 2011, the FCC carefully stated its position on the new TV online public file, assuring broadcasters that the public file would not become a proxy for running up the FCC’s cash registers by using the online public file to issue fines to stations. Here is their quoted language: “As with paper public files, the […]
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