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NOT Due June 1, 2016: Ohio Noncommercial Television Station Biennial Ownership Reports; Biennial Ownership Reports for All Ohio Stations Are Due December 1, 2017 May 2, 2017

Historically, FCC Biennial Ownership Reports for Ohio noncommercial television stations were due to be filed with the FCC by June 1 of odd-numbered years (unless a station is owned as...

FCC Approves 49% Foreign Ownership for Univision January 10, 2017

The FCC’s Media Bureau in early January granted a petition (“Petition”) for a declaratory ruling filed by Univision Holdings, Inc. (“Univision”) and Mexican media conglomerate Grupo Televisa, S.A.B. (“Televisa”) permitting...

Noncommercial Stations: The FCC Has Announced That Biennial Ownership Reports Are Due December 1, 2017 December 21, 2016

In Ohio, noncommercial television stations have traditionally filed biennial ownership reports on June 1 of odd-numbered years (such as 2017), and noncommercial radio stations have traditionally filed biennial ownership reports...

FCC Adopts New Ownership Reporting Rules January 29, 2016

Data integrity, diversity identification, and a secure method of gathering the data have all now been woven into the broadcast ownership report filing rules by virtue of a new Order...

New FRN Proposed for Attributable Parties to Use for Broadcast Ownership Reporting Purposes Without Having to Give FCC Complete SSN March 5, 2015

In February, the Commission released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Notice”) that seeks comment on a proposal intended to facilitate the FCC’s efforts to reliably track ownership data for...