Broadcasters now have one less report to worry about, as the Mid-Term Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) Report, known as the Form 397 report, is officially gone. You may recall that...
Read moreEffective last Friday, the FCC staffers who are responsible for enforcing the Commission’s equal employment opportunity (“EEO”) rules have officially been moved from the Media Bureau to the Enforcement Bureau. ...
Read moreBroadcasters will soon have one less regulatory requirement to worry about. That’s because the Commission at its February open meeting adopted an Order eliminating the Mid-Term EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity)...
Read moreThe FCC recently announced a proposal to move the agency staff responsible for enforcing the Commission’s equal employment opportunity (“EEO”) rules from the Media Bureau to the Enforcement Bureau. Chairman...
Read moreOhio broadcast stations—both radio and television—with five or more full-time employees must upload their annual EEO Public File Report in their online public inspection file and post it to their...
Read moreAnother FCC reporting requirement may also be on its way out. Comments are due May 21, 2018, on the Commission’s Noticed of Proposed Rulemaking (“Notice”) that would eliminate FCC Form 397,...
Read moreOhio’s budding medical marijuana industry is scheduled to bloom on September 8, 2018. At that time, registered medical marijuana patients with a physician recommendation will be able to purchase Ohio-grown...
Read moreThe FCC has released its first round of EEO audit letters of 2018 to randomly selected radio and television station licensees. While broadcasters have come to expect routine EEO compliance...
Read moreThe Broadcast Mid-Term EEO Report (FCC Form 397) may soon be a thing of the past. The FCC adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) at its February 22, 2018,...
Read moreThe FCC’s random Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) audits are not just busy work! They can sometimes lead to fines for broadcasters, and that’s exactly what happened recently as the Commission...
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