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October 30, 2026
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The Audio Division has finally ruled on an application to relocate an FM translator that has been pending since November 2012. The application sought a waiver of the minor change rule to permit relocation of the translator to serve an AM station. The city to which the applicant wanted to move was Tell City, Indiana. […]
Read More →Remember that public notice last month asking for comments about online public files for cable and satellite companies? You know, the one where the FCC whimsically added “and what about online files for radio too” as a subtitle, even though the petition that was filed said nothing about radio? Yeah, that’s the one. Well, it […]
Read More →Television stations have until October 1, 2014 to let cable and DBS providers know whether the station elects mandatory carriage or retransmission consent for the next 3-year carriage cycle. The next 3-year carriage cycle is from January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2017. The election must be in writing and sent by certified mail, return […]
Read More →The FCC’s Audio Division continues to process applications from the 2013 LPFM filing window at a record-setting pace. In its most recent action, the FCC announced the points-winners from 111 mutually exclusive LPFM application groups. Anyone objecting to the selection of the tentative “winners” has until October 6, 2014 to file an objection. The same […]
Read More →On the FCC’s website, there is a little icon identified as “Items On Circulation”. When you click on it, a list of various matters, by Bureau, are listed as being on circulation. We know our readers are curious, so what exactly does “on circulation” mean? It means that a Bureau’s staff has completed an initial […]
Read More →On the heels of the NAB lawsuit filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Sinclair Broadcasting has filed its own lawsuit in the same court. Sinclair asserts that the FCC exceeded the authority Congress allowed them, and abused its discretion in adopting the Incentive Auction Report & Order. The lawsuit […]
Read More →When the FCC pushed through online public files for TV stations, one of the concerns raised was that they could subject stations to meritless complaints. To be clear, even when someone files a complaint that has no merit whatsoever, the station has to defend itself and that costs money. We now have a case-in-point. Several […]
Read More →August 28, 2014: radio online public file comments due. August 29, 2014: reply EAS comments due September 1 & 16; October 1 & 16: TV, Class A & LPTV Stations in California: air your POST-filing announcements. September 1 & 16: TV, Class A & LPTV Stations in Alaska, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Oregon & Washington: […]
Read More →It took awhile, but the FCC finally published its June 2014 TV Incentive Auction Report & Order in the Federal Register, which started the countdown for legal challenges to be filed. The National Association of Broadcasters wasted no time, taking potentially the fastest path to review by filing a petition with the District of Columbia […]
Read More →In 2012, when the FCC adopted an online public file requirement for TV stations, it strongly hinted that the same rule would come to radio, but that it wanted to “test” things first on TV. Apparently, the FCC thinks the “test” period is over. It has asked for comments on whether a rulemaking should be […]
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