Bulletin Categories: Public File

We now know the effective date for rule changes that significantly modernize the FCC’s carriage election notice rules by moving broadcasters’ carriage election notices to primarily electronic means.  The Report...

Today, the FCC unanimously adopted a Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Order”) that moves broadcasters’ carriage election notices to primarily electronic means, significantly modernizing the...

Also on the agenda at the Commission’s July 10 open meeting is a draft Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Draft Order”) that proposes to move...

The FCC will consider a Report and Order at its July 10 open meeting that, if adopted, would change the Commission’s children’s television programming rules to provide stations with reasonable...

Ohio 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...

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...

Earlier this week, FCC staff began sending a second round of emails to numerous radio stations that, according to the Commission’s records, have not yet uploaded all necessary documents to...

Broadcasters 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)...

The FCC is further revising—and extending—some of its filing and other deadlines in the wake of the partial government shutdown.  In a Public Notice (“Notice”) released on Tuesday afternoon, January...

In a Public Notice (“Notice”) released late Monday afternoon, the FCC announced that any filings that would have been due between January 3 and January 29, 2019, are now due...