Bulletin Categories: License Renewal

As of this writing, we’re quickly approaching the June 1, 2021 deadline for one of the most important FCC filings Ohio television stations will make this year (or any year!) -...

We’re continuing to see multiple Notices of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (the “Notices”) roll in for radio licensees’ apparent failures to timely file license renewal applications.  Some of the latest...

Over the past several months, the Commission has issued multiple Notices of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (the “Notices”) for TV and radio licensees’ apparent failures to timely file license renewal...

We write to remind you that Ohio radio stations: (1) should have aired their final post-license renewal application filing announcement on August 16, 2020; and (2) must place in their...

In another noteworthy Order and Consent Decree (the “Decree”), the Media Bureau resolved an investigation into two radio broadcasters (the “Broadcasters”) who allegedly assigned the broadcast licenses for two radio...

Continuing the theme of “lessons to be learned” from license renewal enforcement actions, in another Memorandum Opinion and Order and Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (the “NAL”), the FCC...

As we pass the mid-point of the second year of the current radio license renewal cycle (which began in mid-2019 and continues until mid-2022), it is perhaps unsurprising that the...

It’s deadline day!  This is a reminder that license renewal applications for Ohio radio stations are due no later than June 1, 2020. Also due on June 1 for Ohio...

We’re getting down to the wire!  This is a reminder that license renewal applications for Ohio radio stations are due no later than June 1, 2020. Also due on June...

With the COVID-19 situation currently dominating so much of our collective time and attention, other items may have been placed on the backburner.  Accordingly, and to help ensure that Ohio...