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August 1, 2025
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Our firm’s managing partner, Joe Chautin, will attend the National Religious Broadcaster’s convention in Nashville, Tennessee from March 7-11. If you’ll be there and would like to meet with Joe, please email him at jchautin@hardycarey.com. Joe will serve as moderator of the NRB Forum – FCC Policy Power Hour: What Movement in Washington Means for […]
Read More →In a sudden move likely tied to software stability issues, the FCC announced on January 11 that its Consolidate Database System (CDBS) would no longer support active application filings and provided guidance on how those filings should now be submitted. CDBS has been the primary filing database for broadcasters since the 1990s but was slowly […]
Read More →In a unanimously-adopted order issued January 25, the FCC updated its political programming and recordkeeping rules for broadcast licensees and others. Specifically, the FCC revised the definition of “legally qualified candidate for public office” by adding the use of social media and creation of a campaign website to the existing list of activities that may […]
Read More →The Biden Administration’s nominee for the remaining vacant FCC Commissioner position, Gigi Sohn, whose nomination was derailed late last year and has now been re-nominated, will receive an up or down vote on February 2 by the Senate Commerce Committee. In recent days, she has agreed to recuse herself for three years from FCC matters […]
Read More →New performing rights organization Global Music Rights (GMR) and the Radio Music License Committee (RMLC) recently announced a conditional settlement to their litigation concerning rights and rates to certain musical works aired on commercial stations. The settlement will only become effective if enough broadcasters agree to the terms of the agreement by January 31, 2022. […]
Read More →In an unusual decision, the FCC issued an order requiring landowners (not the tower owner) to dismantle an unlighted tower that has posed a risk to aviation for several years. The tower had previously been built and used by an FM station owner that long ago forfeited its license to operate the station. The land […]
Read More →January 7, 2022 2021 New NCE FM Filing Window Applications Dismissed December 8, 2021: deadline to file curative minor amendments that do not create new application conflicts. January 10, 2022 TV, Class A, AM & FM Stations (commercial & noncommercial): deadline to complete 4th Quarter 2021 issues/program lists and upload to online public file. Class […]
Read More →The FCC is moving ahead quickly with processing the 1282 applications filed in its November 2021 New NCE-FM filing window. In late November, the Commission began accepting technical amendments and settlement proposals for the 883 applications that proposed technical parameters mutually exclusive with other applications filed in the window. We have seen several such amendments […]
Read More →By January 31, 2022, commercial full power and Class-A TV stations must prepare and file children’s television reports for 2021 and upload children’s television commercial limits certifications to their public file for 2021. Failure to timely file the report, or the reporting of less than the required amount of core children’s television programming, can result […]
Read More →On December 15, 2021, the FCC decommissioned the Fee Filer Payment Module and Red Light Display System. Fee Filer has been replaced with a new payment module in CORES that requires logging in with an FCC Username that is associated with the FRN of the entity for which a fee is being paid. Regulatory and […]
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