Dates to Remember
October 30, 2026
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Some things are hard to hide. During a field agent inspection, one AM station owner tried hard, but ultimately failed, to later explain why half of the fence around one of its three towers was laying on the ground. During the inspection, the agent tried to lift the fencing sections, but it was difficult because […]
Read More →The FCC has announced yet another tweak to the extended deadline for commercial stations to file biennial ownership reports. Due to a scheduled power outage that will affect the FCC’s offices, the FCC has now clarified that commercial stations must have their biennial ownership reports electronically filed no later than 7 p.m. EST on December […]
Read More →Last month, we reported that the FCC’s new chairman, Tom Wheeler, had publicly stated that he had immersed himself in incentive auction issues, and would soon decide how best to move the process forward. He’s now made his first public statement on what he’s been reading and reviewing, and he did so using the FCC’s […]
Read More →According to the Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Fred Upton, it is time to examine how to modernize the communications Act to reflect the realities of the 21st century marketplace. The last time Congress adopted a major revision to the Act was in 1996, nearly two years ago. That revision brought broadcasters competitive […]
Read More →The FCC audits a few hundred broadcast stations for EEO compliance each year, in addition to scrutinizing EEO issues at license renewal time. The audit process checks EEO compliance over a two-year period with a close examination of a station’s EEO paperwork. That paperwork either confirms that a station is EEO compliant or, as in […]
Read More →NAB is sounding alarms on the FCC’s plans to repack the TV spectrum after the incentive auction is held, warning that it will be far more complex than the DTV transition. According to NAB, while the DTV transition involved about 100 stations that each had a second channel to facilitate the transition, post-auction repacking will […]
Read More →During the recent LPFM filing window, the FCC received nearly 3,000 applications for new LPFM stations. The FCC is wasting no time processing these applications, issuing a dizzying array of dismissals, acceptances, and a long list of approximately 1600 mutually exclusive applications. Some applications were not filed by the proper entity (a non-profit) or were […]
Read More →If you send your signal or stream over the internet and it contains music, SoundExchange wants to hear from you by January 31, 2014. By that date, you must file your annual Statement of Accounts and make the minimum $500 payment for 2014. If you have elected to participate in one of the different settlement […]
Read More →Broadcasters should take care not to lose focus with end of year off-time and the blur of bowl games. January 10, 2014 is fast approaching and marks the deadline for when all AM, FM, TV and Class A TV broadcast stations must complete and place in their public inspection files the quarterly issues/programs list for […]
Read More →December 20, 2013: NO LATER THAN 7PM EST all commercial AM, FM, TV, Class A & LPTV Stations: complete and file your ownership report with information current as of October 1, 2013. December 23, 2013: AM & FM Stations in Alaska, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Oregon & Washington: complete and post to your public file […]
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