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October 30, 2026
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The second FM translator filing window for AM stations opened today, July 29th. In this window, Class A and B AM stations are eligible to file applications seeking to relocate non-reserved band translators up to 250 miles for use with an AM station. Class C and D stations can also participate in this window, even […]
Read More →The FCC will start the forward auction on August 16, 2016, roughly six weeks after the close of the reverse auction at the end of June. And instead of the original 99 forward auction bidders that filed paperwork to become eligible, only 62 made it to the finish line by ponying up the necessary funds […]
Read More →Last month, we wrote about increases in annual regulatory fees that will be paid sometime this September. Now, the FCC has decided to increase its application fees, something it had not done for a few years. So renewal applications, license modification applications, ownership reports, call sign changes and the like will all cost a little […]
Read More →June 24, 2016: Commercial AM & FM Stations in the top 50 markets with 5 or more full-time employees must have begun to use the online public inspection file (OPIF) and begin posting documents in real-time. TV & Class A Stations: your files from the broadcast public inspection file (BPIF) were migrated to the new […]
Read More →After nearly a month of bidding by TV stations, the FCC’s reverse auction ended on June 29, 2016. The “provisional winners” in the reverse auction will receive a total of $86.4 billion to either go off the air, go to a low VHF channel, or go to a high VHF channel. That figure far exceeds […]
Read More →All TV stations were “transitioned” to the FCC’s brand spanking new Online Public Inspection File (OPIF) system on June 24, 2016, and several radio stations were required to join them as well. Was your radio station supposed to join the OPIF crowd? Only if it was in the top 50 radio markets and had five […]
Read More →The living used to be easy in summertime. But just as we were all sipping lemonade and heading for the hammock, the FCC jolted broadcasters (and their FCC counsel) awake with a new registration and info collecting regimen called the EAS Test Reporting System (ETRS). We know, your ice hadn’t even started to melt yet. […]
Read More →Every year, the FCC issues a proposed rulemaking for collecting the fees that keep them operating. And every year, the figures they propose for annual regulatory fees are amazingly the ones that get adopted, even after comment. Well, the proposed fees this year have spiked higher. So be ready to pay a few hundred dollars […]
Read More →Ok, we know we’ve been hard on our bureaucratic brethren in this newsletter, and this headline is a little tongue-in-cheek. Ok, maybe a lot. But our editorial board decided to go with it because we were feeling some of that independence before the start of the 4th of July weekend. And anytime you can declare […]
Read More →June 1, 2016: AM & FM Stations in Michigan & Ohio: if full-time employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and place same in public file as well as post on station website. If station has 11 or more full-time employees, prepare and electronically file mid-term EEO Form 397 and place copy of […]
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