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October 30, 2026
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A few months ago, the FCC hired an outside contractor to answer some weighty questions on the costs associated with repacking TV stations into few channels after a spectrum auction. The report is now done, and the FCC wants to know what you think. The report can be accessed at http://www.fcc.gov/article/da-14-389a2. Comments are due April […]
Read More →In a move that FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai called a change in policy and an abuse of delegated authority, the Media Bureau issued a March 12th public notice providing “guidance” on how the FCC would be processing assignment applications for TV stations. The Notice stated that TV license assignment applications involving both a shared or […]
Read More →Claiming that it thought a reduction in service at night “was permissible without prior authorization” an FM station that could not certify to operating for the FCC’s minimum daily required hours will now get to pay $5,000 to the US treasury. The certification is required in connection with a station’s license renewal application. This licensee […]
Read More →TV stations will take on even more responsibilities related to the closed captioning of programming, pursuant to an order adopted by the FCC in the past few weeks. Starting on April 28, 2014, TV stations “must take all steps to monitor and maintain their equipment and signal transmissions associated with the transmission and distribution of […]
Read More →March 1 & 16, 2014: TV, Class A & LPTV Stations in Texas: air your PRE-filing announcements. AM & FM Stations in Delaware & Pennsylvania: air your PRE-filing announcements. March 1, 2014, March 16, 2014, April 1, 2014 & April 16, 2014: TV, Class A & LPTV Stations in Kansas, Nebraska & Oklahoma: air your […]
Read More →The FCC has granted a 30-day extension of the deadline for reply comments in the AM Revitalization rulemaking proceeding. The new deadline is March 20, 2014. The extension reflects a partial grant of a request made by the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers for a 60-day extension. AFCCE formed a committee to review and […]
Read More →This renewal cycle, the FCC added a few questions to its renewal application, one of which requires radio stations to certify and explain any period during which a station was silent during the license term. All stations have had to certify that they have not been silent for more than a 12-month consecutive period, and […]
Read More →Now that we’re just over a year removed from the FCC’s full implementation of the online public inspection file for full-power and Class A television stations, we thought it might be helpful to capture a few kernels of wisdom, along with some cautions and warnings. First and most important is that the FCC staff can […]
Read More →The FCC has now released more details about two TV Incentive Auction webinars to be held on February 21, 2014. The first webinar is from 10 am – 12 noon EST and will describe the FCC’s computer program and methodology for performing “feasibility checks” during the auction to confirm – before accepting bids on spectrum […]
Read More →FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, in a post on the FCC’s blog, has heralded an FCC-sanctioned test of the FCC’s proposal for channel-sharing by TV stations. Channel-sharing is one way the FCC hopes to incentivize TV stations to turn in licensed spectrum and share another 6 mHz TV channel that will not be auctioned. Chairman Wheeler […]
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