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December 1, 2024
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September 1 & 16: TV, Class A & LPTV Stations in Iowa & Missouri: air your PRE-filing announcements AM & FM Stations in Alaska, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Oregon & Washington: air your PRE-filing announcements. September 1 & 16, October 1 & 16: All AM & FM Radio Stations in California: air your POST-filing announcements. […]
Read More →We’ll have more precise details in next month’s newsletter, but annual regulatory fees for commercial broadcasters will be due sometime during the first half of September. Sometime during August, the FCC will take several actions on the regulatory fee front, including adopting a Report & Order on the fees, populating its Fee Finder website with […]
Read More →Following are the trend lines for the past three months for the broadcast stations, according to the FCC’s published broadcast station totals from March 31, 2013 and June 30, 2013 tracking the number of licensed stations. On the radio side, two AM stations have gone dark, three more commercial FM stations are on the air, […]
Read More →Many broadcast stations have auxilliary licenses in addition to their main station license, often to assist in transmitting the broadcast signal from the studio to the transmitter site. These “STL” licenses are automatically renewed with a station’s main license, and although the annual regulatory fees associated with these licenses are very low ($10), the fines […]
Read More →TV license renewals are providing a steady stream of “revenue” for the FCC’s coffers. Previously, we’ve reported on a number of Class A television stations being fined for not filing quarterly FCC Form 398 Children’s Television Reports. Those stations continue to receive fines, though they have an option to return to low power television status […]
Read More →Mark it on your calendar. On July 22, 2013, the FCC made an attempt to be transparent about its plans for an incentive auction, in the form of a blog entry and public notice. As has been the case from the start, there are many questions posed and no answers being given. However, the FCC […]
Read More →The licensee of two stations just learned how costly it can be when license renewal applications are not filed on time, and a station continues to operate. The FCC fined the licensee a total of $26,000 for not making the required filings on time, and for operating without authorization for various periods after missing the […]
Read More →The FCC would like to hear from broadcasters on two significant issues. On the first, the FCC has asked for comments by July 22, 2013 on an ownership study submitted to the FCC by the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC) in late May. The MMTC report is titled “The Impact of Cross Media Ownership […]
Read More →FM translator applicants that remain in Auction 83 have only a few more weeks to reach settlement agreements with other applicants with whom they are mutually exclusive, or file technical amendments that will eliminate their mutual exclusivity and allow for a grant of their application as a singleton. The deadline for doing so is July […]
Read More →June 24, 2013 marked the start of a limited filing window for all auction 94 winning bidders to complete and file applications for construction permits with the FCC. The filing window will close at midnight EDT on July 24, 2013. In addition to providing the technical and legal information in the application, applicants must also […]
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