Dates To Remember

November 6, 2017

Deadline for all broadcast stations to notify their EAS State Emergency Communication Committee (SEC) about their status/efforts related to multilingual EAS message dissemination.

November 13, 2017

Deadline for all broadcast stations to file EAS Form 3 in ETRS as part of EAS National Test.

November 24, 2017

Deadline for TV stations with winning auction bids that did not have pre-auction channel share agreements but preserved a right to enter into a post-auction channel share agreement to enter into a channel share agreement and file it with a minor modification application to modify the station’s transmitter site to the shared location. This is also the deadline for winning auction bidders to request additional time beyond January 23, 2018 to continue operations on their pre-auction channel.

December 1, 2017

Deadline for all digital television licensees to file the ancillary/supplementary services Form 2100, Schedule G in LMS.

AM & FM Stations in Alabama, Georgia, Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, N. Dakota and S. Dakota: if full-time employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and post same in public file as well as post on station website. NCE Stations in Alabama & Georgia Only: the biennial ownership report that would have been due on this date has been suspended until March 2, 2018

AM & FM Stations in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont: 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. If station has 11 or more full-time employees, prepare and electronically file mid-term EEO Form 397 and place copy of filed report in your public inspection file. NCE Stations Only: the biennial ownership report that would have been due on this date has been suspended until March 2, 2018.

TV & Class A Stations in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, N. Dakota, S. Dakota: if full-time employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and post same in public file as well as on station website and prepare and electronically file mid-term EEO Form 397 and place copy of filed report in your public inspection file. NCE Stations Only: the biennial ownership report that would have been due on this date has been suspended until March 2, 2018.

TV & Class A Stations in, Alabama, Georgia, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont: if full-time employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and post same in online public file and station website. NCE Stations in Alabama & Georgia: the biennial ownership report that would have been due on this date has been suspended until March 2, 2018.