Bulletin Categories: LPFM

An applicant for a Virginia-based low power FM (“LPFM”) facility recently found itself with its application dismissed after an Informal Objection prompted an FCC Staff examination into the applicant’s compliance...

After a last-minute extension to the previously announced filing window for new low power FM (“LPFM”) stations, the first LPFM application window in approximately a decade closed at 12:00 PM...

By recent Public Notice (the “Notice”), the FCC announced that the forthcoming window for applications for new low power FM (“LPFM”) stations (originally scheduled for November) has been delayed until...

The FCC’s underwriting rules were at issue in a recent Consent Decree (the “Decree”) resolving the broadcast by a noncommercial educational (“NCE”) low power FM (“LPFM”) licensee of nine announcements...

A Florida low power FM (“LPFM”) licensee has received a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (the “Notice”) proposing the second-highest fine addressed in this memo—$25,000—for the licensee’s apparent failures...

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...

A low power FM (“LPFM”) licensee’s alleged airing of commercial material may end up costing the station $15,000, according to a recent Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (the “NAL”)...

The FCC recently announced that several broadcast application forms related to constructing, licensing, and/or modifying commercial and noncommercial FM, LPFM, and FM translator stations will be available for filing in...

While we’re on the subject of the EAS, we want to bring your attention to a recent Notice of Violation (the “Notice”) issued by the FCC that provides stations with...