Dates to Remember
Posted on July 31st, 2024 by adminAugust 1, 2024
Radio and TV Stations located in Illinois, Wisconsin, California, North Carolina and South Carolina: if five (5) full time employee threshold is met, prepare EEO public file report covering the period from August 1, 2023 – July 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 Illinois and Wisconsin: 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 August 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 North Carolina and South Carolina: 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 August 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. So unlike for radio, there is no OPIF mechanism available or needed for TV stations to specify the number of SEU employees
August 20, 2024
First Day for Class A TV, LPTV and TV Translator Stations to begin filing “first-come, first-serve” channel change applications pursuant to the Media Bureau’s decision to lift the filing freeze for certain major modification applications
September 2024
All commercial broadcast stations (unless exempt) will have to pay annual regulatory fees once the FCC issues the order and related public notices. Typically, the deadline to pay falls in the last third of the month. Failure to timely pay regulatory fees results in an automatic fine equal to 25% of the owed fee.
October 1, 2024
Radio and TV Stations located in Florida, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Iowa, Missouri, Alaska, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Marianas Islands, Oregon and Washington: if five (5) full time employee threshold is met, prepare EEO public file report covering the period from October 1, 2023 – September 30, 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 Iowa and Missouri: 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 October 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 Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands: 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 October 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. So unlike for radio, there is no OPIF mechanism available or needed for TV stations to specify the number of SEU employees
