Dates to Remember 

October 1, 2025

Radio and TV Stations located in Alaska, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Marianas Islands, Oregon, Washington, Iowa, Missouri and Florida:  if five (5) full time employee threshold is met, prepare EEO public file report covering the period from October 1, 2024 – September 30, 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 Alaska, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Marianas Islands, Oregon and Washington:  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 October 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 Iowa and Missouri: 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 October 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.

October 3, 2025

Deadline for all non-exempt broadcast stations to file ETRS Form One to report the status of EAS equipment, monitoring stations, contact personnel.

October 10, 2025

TV, Class A, AM & FM Stations (commercial & noncommercial): deadline to complete and upload to online public file the 3^rd 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 3^rd Quarter 2025 certification of ongoing Class A eligibility

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

October 15, 2025

Class A, LPTV, TV Translator filing freeze for all minor change applications (including displacement applications) begins 6p ET

October 17, 2025

Extended deadline for all stations included in the FCC’s August 8, 2025 EEO Random Audit to upload audit responses to online public files of all stations in the audited station employment unit.

October 22, 2025

Class A, LPTV, TV Translator filing freeze on all minor changes applications (including displacement applications) is lifted and expanded opportunity to file major change applications with relocations limited to no more that 121 kilometers begins 12:01 am ET

December 1, 2025

Deadline for Full Power TV, Class A, and LPTV Stations to file FCC Form 2100, Schedule G, and pay 5% of gross revenues from any ancillary or supplementary services provided between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025. 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 3, 2025

Class A, LPTV, TV Translator major change application filing freeze begins 6p ET

January 10, 2026

TV, Class A, AM & FM Stations (commercial & noncommercial): deadline to complete and upload to online public file the 4^th 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 4^th Quarter 2025 certification of ongoing Class A eligibility

Noncommercial Broadcast Stations:  deadline to complete and post to your online public file the 4^th   Quarter 2025 report for any 3^rd Party Fundraising conducted during the quarter

January 14, 2026

Class A, LPTV, TV Translator minor change applications filing freeze begins 6p ET

January 21, 2026

Class A, LPTV, TV Translator major change applications resumes, minor change freeze is lifted, and acceptance of applications for new LPTV and TV translator stations begins 12:01 am ET

January 30, 2026

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 2025 in the station online public file

January 31, 2026

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”