Dates to Remember
October 30, 2026
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The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau has issued its report of the Nationwide EAS Test that was conducted in the fall of 2017. According to the report, nearly 96% of test participants received the test alert, up slightly from 2016, and almost 92% of test participants successfully retransmitted the test alert, up from […]
Read More →One final note about the FCC’s most recent round of broadcast station EEO audits which featured novel email notices and responses simply uploaded to your station’s online public file. Just as they began with email notices (for most stations), “all clear” letters sent after a station’s response have been arriving by email as well. So […]
Read More →We know. You’re tired of hearing about the online public file. But here’s another tip. After going “live” with your public file, there is a separate “certification” that is technically supposed to be completed as well. That certification confirms that all documents have been uploaded and none are still being maintained on paper (i.e., the […]
Read More →Like yours, our eyes are getting blurry keeping track of FM translator auctions. To be sure, it is almost a dizzying array of auctions and deadlines, so making sure you have the right auction is only the first step. Auction 99, which will decide the winners out of these 26 applications, had an upfront payment […]
Read More →On April 10, 2018, the FCC opened a Special Displacement Window for LPTV and TV translator stations that are being displaced by the post-auction repack of television stations into channels 2-36. Applications for stations meeting the displacement criteria could originally be filed through May 15, 2018, but the FCC has now extended the window to […]
Read More →Ten more days. Applicants that participated in Auction 100 to seek an FM translator for their AM station, and are not mutually exclusive with other applications, have until May 9, 2018 to file their complete Form 349 application and pay the filing fee. Applications must be filed in CDBS. There are 669 “singleton” applications for […]
Read More →April 1, 2018 AM & FM Stations in Delaware & Pennsylvania: if five (5) full-time station employment unit employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and post in public file and on station website. If station employment unit has 11 or more full-time employees, also prepare and electronically file mid-term EEO Form 397 […]
Read More →In the last week of February, the FCC announced its first EEO audit of broadcast stations for 2018, including 300 radio and television stations. For the first time, many stations received notice of the audit via email (though letters were also sent). Also as a first, instead of sending in EEO audit responses by snail […]
Read More →A few recent, critical developments bear noting in the arena of getting funds to reimburse stations impacted by the repack of the television band spectrum into channels 2-36. First, the FCC announced on March 8, 2018 that announced an additional reimbursement allocation for stations entitled to reimbursement. Initially, stations were only allocated 52% of their […]
Read More →With the March 1st deadline for all stations to transition to the online public inspection file now having passed, it might be easy to put the file out of mind. But resist that temptation. As noted in our dates to remember, all stations must prepare and post a 1st Quarter 2018 issues/programs list to their […]
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