Dates to Remember

Posted on April 30th, 2014 by

May 1 & 16, 2014: TV, Class A & LPTV Stations in Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah & Wyoming: air your PRE-filing announcements.

May 1 & 16, 2014; and June 1 & 16, 2014: TV, Class A & LPTV Stations in Texas: air your POST-filing announcements

AM & FM Stations in Delaware & Pennsylvania: air your POST-filing announcements.

May 6, 2014: reply comments due on proposed reimbursement costs for repacked TV stations.

May 12, 2014: reply comments on multilingual EAS due.

June 1, 2014: TV, Class A & LPTV Stations in Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah & Wyoming: file your renewal application electronically via Form 303-S. Also file EEO Form 396 with, if applicable, two most recent EEO public file reports. Post current EEO public file report to online public file and post copy on station website, if applicable. NCE Stations Only: also file biennial ownership report via Form 323-E.

AM & FM Stations in Arizona, DC, Idaho, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia & Wyoming: 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.

TV & Class A Stations in Michigan & Ohio: if full time employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and post same to online public file as well as on station website.

AM & FM Stations in Michigan & Ohio: 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. NCE Stations Only: also file biennial ownership report via Form 323-E.

TV & Class A Stations in DC, Maryland, Virginia & West Virginia: if full time employee threshold is met, complete EEO public file report and post same to online public file as well as on station website. NCE Stations Only: also file biennial ownership report via Form 323-E.

June 1 & 16 and July 1 & 16: TV, Class A & LPTV Stations in California: air your PRE-filing announcements.

June 23, 2014: TV, Class A & LPTV Stations in Texas: complete and post to your public file documents relating to pre- and post-filing broadcast renewal announcements.

AM & FM Stations in Delaware & Pennsylvania: complete and post to your public file documents relating to pre- and post-filing broadcast renewal announcements.

June 30, 2014: rules related to quality of captioning using Electronic Newsroom Techniques take effect.

July 1, 2014: all television and Class A stations must begin to upload political files to online public inspection file.