Dates to Remember
January 10, 2025
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The FCC’s Order reinstating the EEO Form 395-B filing requirement for broadcasters became effective June 3, 2024, but the Media Bureau has not yet issued the public notice announcing that stations must file the form by September 30th of this year. Given the status of legal challenges to the new mandate and that the form […]
Read More →There’s been plenty to write about in the first half of 2024 when it comes to broadcast regulation. From the ordinary to the new, here’s what to look for in the second half of 2024. On the “ordinary” side, it is quite possible that there will be a scheduled National EAS test this fall where […]
Read More →On June 27, 2024, the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau issued a report on the outcome of the 2023 Nationwide EAS Test. There was significant improvement in the reception and retransmission rates of the test due to use of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), which was more reliable than over-the-air methods. More test […]
Read More →The FCC has adopted a rulemaking to overhaul its Class A, low power television and television translator rules, and announced a July 29th deadline to file comments in the proceeding. The scope of the rule changes is broad, and several new rules are proposed. The rulemaking considers requiring certain LPTV stations to maintain an online […]
Read More →July 10, 2024 TV, Class A, AM & FM Stations (commercial & noncommercial): deadline to complete and upload to online public file the 2nd Quarter 2024 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 2nd Quarter 2024 certification of […]
Read More →In a long-awaited decision that followed a 2022 effort to impose new foreign sponsorship identification requirements on broadcasters, and a legal challenge that followed it, the FCC has now issued a Report & Order that amends and clarifies the existing rules. One clarification related to short-form advertising was not contemplated by the FCC in its […]
Read More →Sixteen years ago, the FCC adopted a rule prohibiting stations from discriminating in advertising contracts on the basis of race or ethnicity, requiring that ad contracts contain nondiscrimination clauses. At the time, the Commission had become aware that certain advertising sales practices on commercial stations allowed advertisers to prohibit their ads from airing on stations […]
Read More →The FCC’s Order reinstating the EEO Form 395-B filing requirement for broadcasters became effective June 3, 2024, but the Media Bureau has not yet issued the public notice announcing that stations must file the form by September 30th of this year. Given the status of legal challenges to the new mandate and that the form […]
Read More →There’s been plenty to write about in the first half of 2024 when it comes to broadcast regulation. From the ordinary to the new, here’s what to look for in the second half of 2024. On the “ordinary” side, it is quite possible that there will be a scheduled National EAS test this fall where […]
Read More →On June 27, 2024, the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau issued a report on the outcome of the 2023 Nationwide EAS Test. There was significant improvement in the reception and retransmission rates of the test due to use of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), which was more reliable than over-the-air methods. More test […]
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