Dates to Remember
October 30, 2026
All EAS Participants must file ETRS Form One.... Read More
May 11, 2015: Incentive auction general sessions and individual meetings in Orlando, FL May 12, 2015: Incentive auction meetings and general information session in Miami, FL May 13, 2015: comments on DBS Market Modification NPRM due May 18, 2015: Incentive auction meetings and general information sessions in Boston, MA May 18, 2015: FM translator auction […]
Read More →The FCC has announced that Auction 98, featuring 131 commercial FM permits, is now scheduled to begin July 23, 2015. The FCC issued its standard procedures for the auction, and re-issued the permit list with no changes from the earlier version. For anyone that wants to participate, a decision will have to be made soon. […]
Read More →A 3-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court held oral arguments in March on NAB’s and Sinclair’s challenge to the FCC’s Incentive Auction Report & Order. Both sides were questioned on highly technical matters, including the OET-69 methodology and the FCC’s decision to change certain measuring tools using the 2010 census and protect only populated […]
Read More →On its own motion, the FCC’s Media Bureau has suspended the previously established September 1, 2015 deadline for all LPTV or TV Translator stations to transition to digital operation. The suspension is not indefinite, as it is only in place pending final action in the MB Docket 03-185 rulemaking proceeding. That proceeding is considering various […]
Read More →On April 21, 2015, the FCC announced a 30-day period ending on May 21, 2015 for 29 of the still- pending FM translator applicants to electronically file FCC Form 349. These 29 applicants are no longer mutually exclusive with any other tech box proposals that remain pending from the Auction 83 window (which occurred 12 […]
Read More →The FCC’s Chief Information Officer recently blogged about the FCC’s efforts to dramatically improve the usability and functionality of the FCC’s website. For those of us who use the site regularly, that means change is coming, and pretty quickly. The FCC isn’t just making changes for the sake of change. They’ve actually done research to […]
Read More →In late 2014, we first mentioned to readers that the FCC had submitted an important pre-auction technical certification form to the Office of Management and Budget for approval. Per the FCC’s Incentive Auction Report & Order, all full power and Class A television stations will have to file this form before the incentive auction in […]
Read More →About a year ago, the FCC modified its closed-captioning rules, and among (many) other things, added a requirement for video program providers (i.e., all TV stations) to begin using – by May 26, 2015 – a secondary audio stream to provide emergency information provided visually during non-newscast programming so the blind or visually impaired could […]
Read More →April 1, 2015: AM & FM Stations in Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Delaware & Pennsylvania: 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. AM & FM Stations in Texas: if full-time employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report […]
Read More →HCCB Managing Partner Joe Chautin will be in Las Vegas April 11-15 for the National Association of Broadcasters Convention. Email Joe if you’d like to arrange a meeting. While at the convention, Joe can be reached at 504-439-2350. See you there!
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