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Upcoming FCC Broadcast and Telecom Deadlines for December – February

By |2020-11-24T16:44:10-06:00November 24th, 2020|Legal News|

December 1, 2020 Radio License Renewal Applications Due – Applications for renewal of license for radio stations located in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota must be filed in the Licensing and Management System (LMS). These applications must be accompanied by Schedule 396, the Broadcast Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Program Report, also filed...… Continue Reading

31st Annual FCBA Charity Auction Begins November 10

By |2020-11-09T09:30:17-06:00November 9th, 2020|Legal News|

The following is a message from the Federal Communications Bar Association (“FCBA”): It’s that time again – on Tuesday, November 10, 2020, the FCBA Young Lawyers Committee and the FCBA Foundation will hold their 31st Annual FCBA Charity Auction virtually this year. While the event is still free and open to the public, unlike prior...… Continue Reading

Now in Effect: FCC Repeals Radio Duplication Prohibitions

By |2020-11-05T10:17:23-06:00November 5th, 2020|Legal News|

Back in August, we wrote about the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC”) decision to end the prohibition of commonly owned radio stations in the same service (AM or FM) that have 50% or more overlap of their primary service contours from duplicating more than 25% of their programming. Now that the decision is published in the Federal Register, it...… Continue Reading

Now Available: The New FCC Radio License Filing Window – What You Need to Know

By |2020-11-03T08:47:43-06:00November 3rd, 2020|Legal News|

On October 29, Fletcher Heald attorneys Frank Montero and Keenan Adamchak in cooperation with the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (“NFCB”) presented a webinar on the upcoming noncommercial educational (“NCE”) FM and lower power FM (“LPFM”) filing windows. In this webinar, they explored the NCE and LPFM application forms, processes, and FCC tie-breaking criteria, as well as pointing out...… Continue Reading

After 16 Years, FCC Lifts TV Filing Freeze

By |2020-10-30T13:10:05-05:00October 30th, 2020|Legal News|

The Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC”) Media Bureau announced via Public Notice the end of a filing freeze on certain full power and Class A TV station modifications that lasted more than 16 years and the leadership of seven FCC chairpersons. The freeze was part of the FCC’s effort to keep a stable technical database first...… Continue Reading

Broadcast Local Public Notice Rule Changes Go Into Effect October 30

By |2020-10-29T10:34:11-05:00October 29th, 2020|Legal News|

The Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC”) Local Public Notice Rule Changes have been published in the Federal Register and will go into effect tomorrow, October 30. These changes – which we detailed at length in a previous post – eliminate the obligation to publish a public notice of certain broadcast applications in newspapers, requiring instead that...… Continue Reading

Upcoming FCC Broadcast and Telecom Deadlines for November – January

By |2020-10-27T09:09:22-05:00October 27th, 2020|Legal News|

Broadcast Deadlines: November 16, 2020  Amending the Schedule of FCC Application Fees – Comments are due in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC” or the “Commission”) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking requesting comments on proposed changes to its application fee schedule, which the FCC considers to be significant and which include fee amounts, most of...… Continue Reading

Fletcher Heald Partner Frank Montero Named “Radio’s Point Man in DC” by Radio Ink

By |2020-10-26T08:12:47-05:00October 26th, 2020|Legal News|

Fletcher Heald partner Frank Montero was featured on the cover of this month’s Radio Ink magazine. The cover story interview describes Frank’s decades of experience in broadcasting, how the industry is handling the COVID-19 crisis, potential changes to FCC leadership, and legal issues broadcasters could face in the future. For more details, check out Radio...… Continue Reading

FCC Announces 2021 Filing Window for NCE Stations

By |2020-10-21T08:01:54-05:00October 21st, 2020|Legal News|

In correspondence with members of Congress, Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) Chairman Ajit Pai had signaled that an application filing window for new Noncommercial Educational (“NCE”) stations would be opening sometime fairly soon. In a Public Notice (“PN”) released October 19, the FCC confirmed that a filing window will be coming. The specific dates of the...… Continue Reading

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