Bulletin Categories: Public File

TV broadcasters face another extremely important deadline this week: This Thursday, October 1, 2020, is the deadline for TV broadcasters to make their triennial carriage elections for the January 1,...

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...

We have learned that many radio broadcasters across the country whose recent license renewal applications have yet to be granted (or denied) have begun receiving correspondence from the Media Bureau,...

Another important regulatory “to-do” item must be completed within the next two weeks: by July 31, 2020, broadcasters are required to upload to their online public inspection files (the “OPIF”)...

License renewal applications and the EEO Schedule 396 aren’t the only filings due on June 1: Both Ohio radio AND television stations with five or more full-time employees must upload...

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...

It’s official—the Commission’s local public notice procedures, which are triggered upon the filing of various FCC applications, will soon be significantly modernized.  At its Open Meeting last week, the FCC...

We write to remind all Ohio radio AND television stations with five or more full-time employees that the deadline to upload their annual EEO Public File Report (covering the period...

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...

It appears as though wholesale revisions may be coming in the not-too-distant future to the local public notice procedures broadcasters are required to follow when filing FCC applications.  According to...