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October 30, 2026
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For most broadcast stations, license renewal is straightforward and uneventful. But for some who have not always followed the rules to the letter (or have suffered from temporary amnesia as to whether there are rules), life is not so nice during renewal. This past week teaches that how the FCC treats you when your renewal […]
Read More →It’s a world of filing windows at the FCC, and they’ve now created one for the biennial ownership reports that commercial stations must file in 2013. Since the reports must include information no earlier than October 1, 2013, the filing window will open that day, and will then remain open for 63 days until December […]
Read More →The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, responsible for the first-ever nationwide EAS test in 2011, would like input from EAS “stakeholders” to address issues that remain from the nationwide EAS Test. Earlier this year, the Bureau released the results of the 2011 test, concluding that EAS was “fundamentally sound”, but noting several problems […]
Read More →The FCC recently issued a long-delayed decision on several petitions for reconsideration of its LPTV digital transition rules. None of the petitions gained any traction, but in at least one instance, the FCC dropped a hint about its previously adopted September 1, 2015 deadline for all LPTV stations to complete the transition to digital and […]
Read More →The FCC has voted to open a proceeding to consider eliminating a provision of its ownership rules that gives special treatment to UHF channels when computing the national television ownership cap. Currently, the rule prohibits a single entity from owning stations that reach, in the aggregate, more than 39% of total television households nationwide. The […]
Read More →Speaking of the incentive auction, while it continues to grapple with the basics of how to design the TV spectrum auction, the FCC has jumped ahead to consider the details of channel relocation and cost reimbursement during repacking after the spectrum auction. On the cost reimbursement front, the FCC’s latest public notice publicizes a proposed […]
Read More →Unless the government shutdown interferes, the FCC is scheduled to host the second of two LPFM webinars to discuss the process for applying for new LPFM stations in the LPFM filing window slated for October 15-29, 2013. The webinar will be broadcast live over www.fcc.gov/live from 1:00-2:30 p.m EST, and will primarily be a question […]
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