Dates to Remember
January 10, 2025
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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 →June 1, 2024 Radio and TV Stations located in Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming: if five (5) full time employee threshold is met, prepare EEO public file report covering the period from June 1, 2023 – May 31, 2024, upload it to the station […]
Read More →The FCC’s Media Bureau recently announced that the Order reinstating the EEO Form 395-B filing requirement for broadcasters was published in the Federal Register and will become effective on June 3, 2024. In the days just before that announcement, two petitions for reconsideration of the Order were filed with the FCC, and separate petitions for […]
Read More →In a May 22nd news release, the FCC announced that FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel has circulated a new proposal with the other four FCC commissioners on whether the FCC should require broadcasters to include disclosures in political ads when they contain AI-generated content. Commissioner Carr immediately labeled the effort ill-advised and without authority, raising concerns […]
Read More →On May 28, 2024, the FCC’s Media Bureau announced that beginning August 20, 2024, the current 14-year freeze on major modification applications by Class A television, low power television and television translator stations will be partially lifted to allow those stations to file channel change applications. Geographic changes greater than 30 miles will not be […]
Read More →At its June 6th meeting, the FCC is expected to adopt a proposed rulemaking to overhaul and adopt new rules applicable to Class A and low power television stations. A draft of the rulemaking has been made public, and two special dockets were created to receive any input before the June 6th scheduled vote. Actual […]
Read More →May 6, 2024 EEO Random Audit Response Deadline for stations identified in the FCC’s EEO Random Audit Public Notice issued March 22, 2024 May 16, 2024 Deadline to file comments in the FCC’s FM Booster Geocasting FNPRM. June 1, 2024 Radio and TV Stations located in Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, Arizona, […]
Read More →Just over four years after the original petition for rulemaking was filed in March 2020, the FCC agreed in early April 2024 to allow FM booster stations to broadcast 3 minutes of programming per hour that is different from their primary station. The new policy will allow targeted advertising or programming in the particular part […]
Read More →In a wide-ranging Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the FCC is examining and seeking information on various practices in the video marketplace that may be stifling the distribution and availability of independent programming, including non-network affiliated television broadcast stations. In particular, the FCC is seeking comment on whether independently programmed television stations are facing obstacles to […]
Read More →May 6th is the response deadline for those broadcast stations included in the FCC’s March 22, 2024 public notice commencing a random audit of radio and television station EEO compliance over the past two years. Approximately 250 stations were included on the audit list. Every station in the station employment unit must upload the audit […]
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