Dates to Remember
October 30, 2026
All EAS Participants must file ETRS Form One.... Read More
After the FCC’s IBFS filing system encountered a few glitches in the days before the October 17, 2018 deadline, the FCC granted a two-week extension until October 31st for fixed satellite service earth station users in the 3.7-4.2 GHz band to either license or register their earth stations. So if you have not done so […]
Read More →After 80 years, the FCC on October 23, 2018 voted to eliminate the ancient requirement that broadcasters routinely file paper copies of station contracts and certain other documents with the Commission. We especially enjoyed Chairman Ajit Pai’s separately issued statement frankly pointing out that there is this thing called the internet today that makes paper […]
Read More →Broadcast stations participated in a National EAS Test on October 3, 2018 and, by 11:59 pm EDT that same day, were required to file EAS Form Two in ETRS to report on their participation in the test. There is yet another form – EAS Form Three – that must be filed by each station to […]
Read More →The FCC has released an October 19, 2018 public notice seeking comment on its proposed auction procedures and listing all twenty-seven remaining mutually exclusive applications that are subject to the auction, and their proposed upfront payment amounts. The applications are part of 13 mutually exclusive groups. Not surprisingly, the rules look a lot like the […]
Read More →On October 30, 2018, the FCC announced and opened a filing window ending January 10, 2019 for remaining mutually exclusive LPTV displacement filing window applicants to file technical amendments or proposed settlements to resolve their application conflicts. Those not doing so by the deadline will proceed to a highest-bidder-wins auction sometime in 2019. A total […]
Read More →In another move signaling that the FCC is close to deciding on the reimbursement procedures for LPTV stations displaced by the TV Auction repack, they have no invited comments on a catalog of expenses/costs that would be deemed “reasonable” and therefore eligible for reimbursement as a repack expense. The cost catalog is detailed, and bears […]
Read More →October 1, 2018 AM, FM, TV and Class A Stations in Florida, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Alaska, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Mariana Islands, Oregon and Washington: if five full-time employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and post same in public file as well as post on station website. TV & […]
Read More →The FCC’s International Bureau continues to remind fixed satellite service earth station users in the 3.7-4.2 GHz band to either license or register such earth stations no later than October 17, 2018. Many radio and television broadcasters have satellite dishes using this spectrum, parts of which will soon be repurposed and auctioned. Holders of new […]
Read More →Initial comments on the FCC’s proposed changes to the children’s television programming requirements for TV stations were due on September 24, 2018. Numerous organizations and stations weighed in on the FCC’s proposed reforms, with broadcasters largely in full support of relaxing and revising the current requirements. Reply comments are due no later than October 23, […]
Read More →Due to the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, the FCC postponed the originally scheduled September 20, 2018 National EAS Test, moving it to October 3, 2018. The National EAS Test will be transmitted that day at 2:20 p.m. EDT. By 11:59 pm EDT that same day, all stations must also file the EAS Form Two in […]
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