Dates to Remember 

Posted on April 30th, 2024 by

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, 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 online public inspection file and post it on the station website

Mid-Term EEO Review for Radio stations located in Michigan and Ohio:  if station employment unit has eleven (11) or more full-time employees, an independent mid-term EEO review of your last two EEO public file reports by the FCC will occur in connection with the 2023-24 EEO public file report due June 1, and when uploading the report, each station in the SEU must indicate that the SEU has 11 or more full-timers using the “Mid-Term Review” tab is the OPIF settings section.  If the SEU has between five and ten full-time employees, when uploading the 2023-24 report, each station in the SEU should indicate that the SEU has fewer than 11 full-time employees using the “Mid-Term Review” tab in the OPIF settings section (by doing so, no mid-term review of the SEU will take place)

Mid-Term EEO Review for Television stations located in Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia:  if station employment unit has five (5) or more full-time employees, an independent mid-term EEO review of your last two EEO public file reports by the FCC will occur in connection with your upload of the 2023-24 EEO public file report due June 1.  By uploading an EEO public file report, the FCC automatically knows that your television station meets the 5 or more full-time employee threshold for a mid-term review. Therefore unlike for radio, there is no OPIF mechanism available or needed for TV stations to specify the number of SEU employees.