Dates to Remember
October 30, 2026
All EAS Participants must file ETRS Form One.... Read More
By now, almost every commercial and noncommercial broadcast station knows about and is maintaining an online public file on the FCC hosted platform. Because the FCC’s system places a date/time stamp on every document upload, there is no way to hide a late filing. That becomes relevant at license renewal time, when stations must certify […]
Read More →We’re hoping it isn’t a New Year’s Resolution, but the FCC published three Consent Decrees settling various rule violations with broadcasters. In each, broadcasters agreed to pay large monetary penalties. The largest was $1,130,000 To Scripps Broadcasting for violations of the FCC’s tower light monitoring rules. The investigation into Scripps’ tower light monitoring began after […]
Read More →You may remember that when your station files for license renewal, it must also file an EEO program report to certify (i) that there have been no judicial/administrative proceedings instituted against the station for employment discrimination, and (ii) whether the station has fewer than five full-time employees. If a station has five or more full-time […]
Read More →January 1, 2020 Radio Stations in Alabama & Georgia – air third post-filing license renewal announcement and additional post-filing announcements on Jan 1, Jan 16, Feb 1 and Feb 16, 2020 Radio Stations located in Arkansas, Louisiana & Mississippi: broadcast third pre-filing license renewal announcement; the final pre-filing announcement should air January 16, 2020. January […]
Read More →From everyone at our law firm, we wish you and your families a wonderful 2020, and look forward to serving you in the year ahead.
Read More →The FCC’s filing window for all commercial and noncommercial AM, FM, TV, Class A and LPTV stations, as well as entities with attributable interests in such stations, to file 2019 biennial ownership reports will close on January 31, 2020. All information reported must be as of October 1, 2019. Commercial stations filing a new biennial […]
Read More →Earlier this year, a three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC’s ownership rule changes were not supported by the record, and overturned the action. The FCC asked all of the 3rd Circuit’s judges to reconsider that decision, but that request was denied. Faced with the mandate that those […]
Read More →Ok, we’re now on board with the view that the transition to the revised Children’s Television reporting requirements has been anything but smooth and easy to understand. In the latest wrinkle, the FCC issued a public notice announcing that the deadline for the first annual Form 398 Children’s Television Report has been moved from January […]
Read More →The FCC has issued two public notices announcing the final procedures and deadlines for the auction of 130 new FM permits in Auction 106, and an associated freeze. Per this Public Notice, the Auction Tutorial will be available via Internet by January 22, 2020, and the Short-Form Application (FCC Form 175) Filing Window Opens January […]
Read More →The next time the FCC opens filing windows for new NCE FM and Low Power FM stations, a new set of processing rules will be in place. By Order adopted December 11, 2019, the FCC made numerous changes to those rules. For mutually exclusive NCE applications, where a points system is used to determine which […]
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