Dates to Remember
October 30, 2026
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Twice a year, every year, the FCC sends audit letters to broadcast stations around the country requesting information on their compliance with the FCC’s EEO requirements. Typically, about 5% of all stations are audited each year. The first EEO audits of 2016 were launched on February 24th, with 279 radio and television stations on the […]
Read More →Starting with the first 2016 quarterly report, which must be filed between April 1-10, 2016 and will cover the first three months of the year, the FCC’s Form 398 Children’s Television Programming Report will have to be filed in the FCC’s new Licensing and Management System (LMS). The FCC’s February 9, 2016 public notice details […]
Read More →In addition to the FM translator filing windows for AM stations, the FCC also adopted other rule changes in its order last October. One of those was an amendment to Section 73.1560 to allow AM stations to commence operation using Modulation Dependent Carrier Level (MDCL) control technology without prior FCC authority, provided that within 10 […]
Read More →The FCC’s new online contest disclosure rules that were adopted in September 2015 became effective on February 12, 2016. The new rules allow stations to satisfy their obligation to disclose material contest terms either by broadcasting those terms or by making them available in writing on a publicly accessible internet website.
Read More →January 29, 2016: 1st AM window for Class C and D AM stations to file modification applications for commercial band FM translators. Window closes July 28, 2016. February 1, 2016: minimum fees are due to SoundExchange for year 2016 for stations streaming on the internet. AM & FM Stations in Arkansas, Louisiana & Mississippi: if […]
Read More →Joe Chautin and Elise Stubbe will be in Nashville for the National Religious Broadcaster’s convention February 22-26, 2016. We look forward to seeing you there. If we don’t yet have a meeting planned with you, or if you are not a client but would like to meet with us, please email us so we can […]
Read More →Despite the snow and several days of being closed, and many private calls for a delay, the FCC has stuck with the January 29, 2016 opening date for the first of two 2016 filing windows for AM stations to modify FM translators by relocating them up to 250 miles to permitted locations within their coverage […]
Read More →Since back in 2008 when the FCC adopted goals to increase diversity in broadcasting, they’ve been trying to conceive of concrete actions that can be taken to promote diversity in broadcasting. To establish a basis for doing so, the FCC has sought data to determine current broadcast station ownership by minorities and women. Ironically, the […]
Read More →We don’t know all the details because the Report & Order had not yet been released as of this writing, but the FCC has voted to adopt a requirement that radio stations migrate public files to the FCC’s online system that has been used by TV stations the past few years. From the news release, […]
Read More →If you are a broadcaster and also stream your broadcast on the web (i.e. “webcast”), you owe some money to SoundExchange by February 1. Webcasters need to make the minimum $500 fee per channel to SoundExchange by the February 1 deadline. If you are not webcasting, but plan to do so in the future, your […]
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