Dates To Remember

Posted on March 29th, 2018 by

April 1, 2018

AM & FM Stations in Delaware & Pennsylvania: if five (5) full-time station employment unit employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and post in public file and on station website. If station employment unit has 11 or more full-time employees, also prepare and electronically file mid-term EEO Form 397 and place/post copy of filed report in public inspection file.

AM & FM Stations in Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana: If five (5) full-time station employment unit employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and place/post in public file and on station website.

TV & Class A Stations in Texas: if five (5) full-time station employment unit employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and post in online public file and on station website, and also prepare and electronically file mid-term EEO Form 397 and place copy of filed report in public inspection file.

TV & Class A Stations in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Delaware & Pennsylvania: if five (5) full-time station employment unit employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and post in online public file and on station website.

April 10, 2018

TV, Class A, AM & FM Stations (commercial & noncommercial): complete 1st quarter 2018 issues/program reports and post to your online public inspection file.

TV & Class A Stations (commercial only): complete and electronically file via LMS the FCC Form 398 Children’s TV Programming Report for 1st Quarter 2018. Also compile and post to online public file records relating to station’s compliance with children’s programming commercial limits.

Class A TV Stations Only: complete and post to your online public file certification of ongoing Class A eligibility.

TV & Class A Stations Changing Channels in the Post-Auction Repack: prepare and file via LMS the required transition progress report.

NCE Stations Only: for any third-party fundraising conducted in the 1st Quarter of 2018, complete and place in the public file the required disclosure regarding the fundraising effort.

April 10, 2018

LPTV Special Displacement Filing Window Opens

April 12, 2018

EEO Audit Responses Due for stations included in audit list (see article above)

April 16, 2018

Auction 83 FCC Form 175 Remedial/Update Filing Window opens at 12 noon ET

April 18, 2018

Auction 100 FM Translator Long Form 349 Filing Window opens

April 19, 2018

Upfront payments due for Auction 99 applicants

April 26, 2018

Auction 83 FCC Form 175 Remedial/Update Filing Window closes at 6 p.m. ET

May 9, 2018

Auction 100 FM Translator Long Form 349 Filing Window closes

May 15, 2018

Auction 99 begins

LPTV Special Displacement Filing Window closes

May 31, 2018

Upfront payments due for Auction 83 applicants