Dates to Remember
October 30, 2026
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Overpower FM translators be warned. The FCC recently handed out a $12,000 fine against an FM translator licensee in California because FCC inspections revealed the translator was operating above its licensed power. The licensee even argued that the higher transmitter power output (TPO) was required to achieve its authorized effective radiated power. The FCC rejected […]
Read More →On August 22, 2018, Senators Menendez and Booker of New Jersey filed a request with the Government Accountability Office of the Comptroller General of the United States requesting an examination of the FCC’s license renewal process. The Senators’ request arises out of their apparent frustration from the recent renewal of the license of WWOR-TV (Secaucus, […]
Read More →The FCC Audio Service Division recently dismissed an application requesting to move the nighttime service of a Class-D AM station by establishing a new nighttime antenna and transmitter at a different tower from its present co-located site with the daytime service. The proposed nighttime service would have originated from a site 48 kilometers away from […]
Read More →August 1, 2018 AM, FM, TV & Class A Stations in California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Illinois and Wisconsin: if (5) full-time station employment unit employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and place it in the station online public inspection file as well as post on station website. TV & Class A […]
Read More →The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau has announced a National EAS Test for September 20, 2018 at 2:20 p.m. EST. All broadcasters must file EAS Form Two by 11:59 p.m. EDT that same day, followed by EAS Form Three no later than November 5, 2018. This announcement followed the Bureau’s public notice reminding […]
Read More →Acting on a request from civil rights organizations and staff recommendations, the FCC relocated enforcement of its equal employment opportunity rules from the Media Bureau, where it had been for 50 years, to the Enforcement Bureau. Once the effective date of the rule change is announced, EEO audits and other EEO oversight will originate from […]
Read More →The FCC has finally released a draft notice of proposed rulemaking on how LPTV/TV Translator stations displaced in the post-auction television band repack should be reimbursed for expenses incurred. The draft notice is on the FCC’s August Open Meeting agenda to be voted upon by the Commissioners. The legislation approving these funds actually gives the […]
Read More →On July 3, 2018, the FCC’s Media Bureau lifted the freeze on the filing of minor changes by LPTV and TV translator stations, which was originally enacted to preserve channels in advance of the displacement window that closed in mid-June. Minor change applications can be filed for authorized facilities or pending applications, and will be […]
Read More →On July 12, 2018, the FCC adopted a notice of proposed rulemaking to consider how or whether to modify its children’s television programming rules originally adopted nearly two decades ago after the 1996 Children’s Television Act was adopted. This is the twelfth proceeding launched by the Pai Commission as part of its ongoing effort to […]
Read More →As covered in last month’s newsletter, the International Bureau has extended the deadline for filing C-Band registrations to October 17, 2018. If you have not filed to register your C-band dish, we strongly recommend that you do so, as the FCC is actively considering new uses for the C-Band and registered C-Band dishes will be […]
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