Dates to Remember

Posted on November 30th, 2020 by

December 1, 2020

Digital Full Power, Class A or LPTV Stations:  Deadline for digital television stations that used digital capacity for feeable ancillary/supplementary uses during the period from October 1, 2019 – September 30, 2020 to file Schedule 2100(g) Ancillary/Supplementary Use report and remit any fees due.

Radio Stations located in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota – deadline to file license renewal application and EEO program report; on-air announcements and public file certifications are required under the new local public notice rule.

Television Stations located in Alabama and Georgia – deadline to file license renewal application and EEO program report; on-air announcements and public file certifications are required under the new local public notice rule.

Radio and TV Stations located in Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota and Vermont: if five (5) full time employee threshold is met, prepare EEO public file report covering the period from December 1, 2019 – November 30, 2020 and post it to the station online public inspection file and on the station website.

January 10, 2021

TV, Class A, AM & FM Stations (commercial & noncommercial): complete 4th Quarter 2020 issues/program lists and upload to online public file.

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

January 30, 2021

TV & Class A stations (commercial only): compile and post to the station online public file records certifying compliance with children’s programming commercial limits for all of 2020, and prepare and electronically file the Children’s Television Report (Form 2100, Schedule H) in LMS documenting station compliance with children’s educational and informational programming requirements for all of 2020. This form is loadable now in LMS so stations can begin working on it at any time.

February 1, 2021

Radio Stations located in Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma – deadline to file license renewal application and EEO program report; on-air announcements and public file certifications are required under the new local public notice rule.

Television Stations located in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi – deadline to file license renewal application and EEO program report; on-air announcements and public file certifications are required under the new local public notice rule.

Radio and TV Stations located in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York and Oklahoma: if five (5) full time employee threshold is met, prepare EEO public file report covering the period from February 1, 2020 – January 31, 2021 and post it to the station online public inspection file and on the station website.