Dates to Remember 

Posted on December 31st, 2025 by

January 10, 2026

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

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

January 29, 2026

Class A, LPTV, TV Translator major change application filing freeze begins 6p 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 Radio Stations: deadline to remit annual license fee (minimum annual fee is $1100 for each stream this year) 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.”

February 1, 2026

Radio and TV Stations located in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, New Jersey and New York:  if five (5) full time employee threshold is met, prepare EEO public file report covering the period from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026, 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 Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma:  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 2025-26 EEO public file report due February 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 2025-26 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 Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi:  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 2025-26 EEO public file report due February 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

March 12, 2026

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

March 19, 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