Dates to Remember 

July 7, 2025

Deadline to file comments responding to the FCC’s Annual Regulatory Fee Proposed Rulemaking.

July 10, 2025

TV, Class A, AM & FM Stations (commercial & noncommercial): deadline to complete and upload to online public file the 2^nd Quarter 2025 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 2^nd Quarter 2025 certification of ongoing Class A eligibility

Noncommercial Broadcast Stations: deadline to complete and post to your online public file the 2^nd Quarter 2025 report for any 3^rd Party Fundraising conducted during the quarter

July 21, 2025

Deadline to file comments in response to the FCC’s Proposed Rulemaking requiring FCC-regulated entities and auction applicants to file a foreign adversary ownership certification. Foreign adversaries are defined as Peoples’ Republic of China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela.

August 1, 2025

Radio and TV Stations located in North Carolina, South Carolina, Illinois, Wisconsin and California:  if five (5) full time employee threshold is met, prepare EEO public file report covering the period from August 1, 2024 – July 31, 2025, 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 California:  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 2024-25 EEO public file report due August 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 2024-25 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 Illinois and Wisconsin: 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 2024-25 EEO public file report due August 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. Therefore unlike for radio, there is no OPIF mechanism available or needed for TV stations to specify the number of SEU employees.

All Commercial full power/Class A Television and radio stations: upload documentation to the public file for any programming time in the 2^nd quarter 2025 that was leased by a foreign government (or agent of a foreign government) or was provided by a foreign entity for free in exchange for its broadcast.