Dates to Remember
October 30, 2026
All EAS Participants must file ETRS Form One.... Read More
May 1 & 16, 2014: TV, Class A & LPTV Stations in Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah & Wyoming: air your PRE-filing announcements. May 1 & 16, 2014; and June 1 & 16, 2014: TV, Class A & LPTV Stations in Texas: air your POST-filing announcements AM & FM Stations in Delaware & Pennsylvania: […]
Read More →The FCC is scheduled to vote on a Report & Order in the 15 month old TV incentive auction at its May meeting. According to the agenda issued for the meeting, to be held May 15, the Commission will consider adopting, via the Order, “key policies and rules for the broadcast television spectrum incentive auction, […]
Read More →It’s now been over a month since the comment period closed on the FCC’s AM Revitalization Proceeding, but the FCC has not made any decisions or provided any immediate relief for AM broadcasters. Verbal comments from FCC staffers at the recent NAB conference did focus upon a 2015 AM-only FM translator window, but the details […]
Read More →We’ve heard of lowering the boom, but this boom is a pretty heavy one. The FCC has issued a notice of apparent liability to a Class A station for $89,200. Their sin? Well, there were many sins, but the biggest was refusing to permit inspection of the station on two occasions. When combined with main […]
Read More →April 1, 2014: TV, Class A & LPTV Stations in Texas: file your renewal application electronically via Form 303-S. Also file EEO Form 396 with, if applicable, two most recent EEO public file reports. Post current EEO public file report to online public file and post copy on station website, if applicable. NCE Stations Only: […]
Read More →Hardy Carey Chautin & Balkin, LLP’s Managing Partner, Joe Chautin, will be at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Las Vegas during the first week of April. Joe can be reached at 504-439-2350 and will be there April 5-7. Have a great convention.
Read More →On the TV spectrum auction front, here’s what we know (or have heard) in the past month. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s promise for a Spring 2014 Report & Order in the 14-month old Incentive Auction rulemaking proceeding is closer to reality, with a vote likely slated for the Commission’s May or June meeting. However, that […]
Read More →The FCC has requested comments to refresh the record in a 2004 Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau docket on the issue of the EAS and emergency information by non-English speakers. The effort originated from the filing of a petition just after Hurricane Katrina by minority and Spanish speaking broadcasters seeking to ensure access to […]
Read More →Late on Friday, March 28th (late on Fridays is when the FCC normally publishes things they don’t want folks to pay attention to) Chairman Wheeler issued a brief statement on the channel-sharing experiment conducted by KLCS and KJLA in California, heralding the report of the test as making “a compelling case for channel sharing. In […]
Read More →The comments and reply comments on how to revitalize the AM band are all filed, and now the FCC has to read them and make some decisions. The biggest question is how quickly AM stations might see relief. The second biggest question is how far the FCC will go in granting that relief. An AM-only […]
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