Dates to Remember
October 30, 2026
All EAS Participants must file ETRS Form One.... Read More
December 1 & 16, 2014: TV, Class A & LPTV Stations in Alaska, American Samoa Guam, Hawaii, Oregon & Washington: air your post-filing announcements. December 1, 2014: Digital TV, Class A & LPTV Stations: prepare and file Form 317 reporting Ancillary/Supplemental Fees for year ending September 30, 2014. December 1, 2014: AM & FM […]
Read More →After teasing the issue a few months ago with a somewhat cryptically worded public notice that mentioned online public files for radio stations as an afterthought, the FCC has apparently now decided to expand that inquiry into a full blown notice of proposed rulemaking. The NPRM has not yet been released, but it is an […]
Read More →Although the TV Incentive Auction now won’t be happening until early 2016 (at best), the FCC is continuing its march toward the auction. On its blog in the past several days, the FCC announced future road trips to 51 cities located in markets where the FCC thinks it “will need stations to participate in the […]
Read More →Nearly two years ago, a noncommercial radio licensee requested experimental authority for a limited relaxation of the FCC’s underwriting policies, which prohibit the promotion of for-profit entities on noncommercial stations. The Media Bureau’s Audio Division denied the request in May of this year, finding that experimental authorizations were reserved for technical phases of operation and […]
Read More →Every four years, the Copyright Royalty Board (“CRB”) is tasked with setting the new rates by which all broadcasters must pay SoundExchange in order to be allowed to continue to stream their broadcasts containing music online. Since the current rate schedule is set to expire at the end of 2015, the CRB has begun the […]
Read More →Many moons ago (about three years), a broadcaster was fined by the FCC for inadequate notice of the material terms of an on-air contest. That broadcaster thought it was unfair that the contest rules it had posted online were insufficient to satisfy the FCC’s contest disclosure rule, which allowed such notice only over-the-air. So the […]
Read More →The FCC has announced a formal inquiry into circumstances surrounding an unauthorized Emergency Alert System (EAS) message transmitted in several states. The incident occurred in late October and involved the erroneous transmission of a national alert message on the syndicated Bobby Bones radio show. The FCC wants to get to the bottom of it because […]
Read More →The FCC has issued a show cause order to the licensee of a Class A television station, requiring the licensee to show why its license should not be downgraded to a LPTV license. A downgrade would mean that the station would no longer have interference protection and would neither be eligible for participation in the […]
Read More →Does the death of a key employee – one responsible for completing reports and placing things in the public file — excuse licensee reporting and public file violations that follow? The answer is no, and the FCC’s latest decision levelling an $18,000 fine for public file violations after an employee death reaffirms the Commission’s long […]
Read More →September 5, 2014 – November 4, 2014: lowest unit charge for federal election in place. November 1 & 16, 2014: TV, Class A & LPTV Stations in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont: air your PRE-filing announcements. November 1 & 16, 2014 & December 1 & 16, 2014: TV, Class A & […]
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