Bulletin Categories: Public File

It is time again for each full-power commercial television station to make an election for either retransmission consent or must carry status for its primary digital channel.   Elections must be...

We have been talking about it for months, and the date is finally here!  Effective tomorrow, June 29, 2017, broadcasters will no longer be required to maintain the “Correspondence File”...

As we previously reported, the FCC has adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) that proposes to largely eliminate the main studio requirements for radio and television broadcast stations. The...

As we reported previously, one of the first actions taken by the FCC under the Chairmanship of Ajit Pai was to vote in favor of the elimination of the rule...

In an Order released Friday, Feb. 3 (the “Order to Set Aside”), the FCC’s Media Bureau set aside two orders (the “January Orders”) it had released in January, in which...

At today’s meeting—the first under new Chairman Ajit Pai—the three-member Commission voted unanimously to eliminate the requirement that commercial broadcast stations retain and make publicly available (as part of the...

On January 6, the FCC’s Media Bureau released two orders (the “Orders”) clarifying certain online political file recordkeeping requirements.  The Orders were in response to complaints filed by public interest...

On June 24, 2016, the FCC launched its new online public inspection file (“OPIF”) database system, and certain radio stations were required to begin using it to upload newly-created public...

On June 24, 2016, the FCC launched its new online public inspection file (“OPIF”) database system, and certain radio stations were required to begin using it to upload newly-created public...

Just in time for the holidays: an important online public file deadline for certain radio stations is rapidly approaching!  Don’t let this legal obligation “get lost in the shuffle”! On...