Dates to Remember 

Posted on November 27th, 2024 by

December 1, 2024

Radio and TV Stations located in Alabama, Georgia, Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont:  if five (5) full time employee threshold is met, prepare EEO public file report covering the period from December 1, 2023 – November 30, 2024, upload it to the station online public inspection file and post it on the station website

Mid-Term EEO Review for Radio stations located in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota:  if station employment unit has eleven (11) or more full-time employees, an independent mid-term EEO review of your last two EEO public file reports by the FCC will occur in connection with the 2023-24 EEO public file report due December 1, and when uploading the report, each station in the SEU must indicate that the SEU has 11 or more full-timers using the “Mid-Term Review” tab is the OPIF settings section.  If the SEU has between five and ten full-time employees, when uploading the 2023-24 report, each station in the SEU should indicate that the SEU has fewer than 11 full-time employees using the “Mid-Term Review” tab in the OPIF settings section (by doing so, no mid-term review of the SEU will take place)

Mid-Term EEO Review for Television stations located in Alabama and Georgia:  if station employment unit has five (5) or more full-time employees, an independent mid-term EEO review of your last two EEO public file reports by the FCC will occur in connection with your upload of the 2023-24 EEO public file report due December 1.  By uploading an EEO public file report, the FCC automatically knows that your television station meets the 5 or more full-time employee threshold for a mid-term review. So unlike for radio, there is no OPIF mechanism available or needed for TV stations to specify the number of SEU employees

Full Power TV, Class A, and LPTV Stations:  Deadline to file FCC Form 2100, Schedule G, and pay 5% of gross revenues if your station received revenue from any ancillary or supplementary services provided between October 1, 2023 and September 30, 2024. NCE TV stations pay on 2.5% of gross revenue. Ancillary and supplemental services do not include free over the air video content, but do include computer software distribution, data transmissions, teletext, interactive materials, aural messages, paging services, or audio signals, and subscription video. Stations that provided no such services do not have to file a report

December 2, 2024

Deadline for radio and TV stations included in the FCC’s Second 2024 EEO Random Audit to upload their audit responses to the online public inspection file (upload report to OPIF for all stations in the station employment unit)

December 3, 2024

Filing freeze begins at 12:01 a.m. EST on rulemaking petitions for full power television station channel changes, as well as minor and major change applications for full power and Class A television stations

December 4, 2024

NCE TV filing window opens at 12:01 a.m. EST

December 11, 2024

NCE TV filing window closes at 6:00 p.m. EST.  Filing freeze ends at 6:00 p.m. EST on rulemaking petitions for full power television station channel changes, as well as minor and major change applications for full power and Class A television stations

January 10, 2025

TV, Class A, AM & FM Stations (commercial & noncommercial): deadline to complete and upload to online public file the 4th Quarter 2024 issues/program lists and any foreign sponsorship identification reports

Class A TV Stations Only: deadline to complete and post to your online public file the 4th Quarter 2024 certification of ongoing Class A eligibility

Noncommercial Broadcast Stations:  deadline to complete and post to your online public file the 4th   Quarter 2024 report for any 3rd Party Fundraising conducted during the quarter

January 30, 2025

All Commercial Full Power and Class A Television Stations – deadline to complete and submit the 2024 children’s television report in LMS and separately upload children’s television commercial limits certifications for all of 2024 in the station online public file

January 31, 2025

Web Streaming Stations: deadline to remit annual license fee and related statement of account with SoundExchange for the statutory license allowing streaming of sound recordings on the web. Payment can be made on SoundExchange’s online filing portal “Licensee Direct”