As we noted on our Blog earlier this week, there were reported problems with the system for filing annual regulatory fees. Fee amounts in the FCC’s CORES system, where the fee payments are made, were not corresponding in some cases to the FCC’s look-up system for checking what a station’s regulatory fees were supposed to... Continue Reading…
Earlier this week, the FCC opened CORES to accept FY 2024 regulatory fee payments and announced a payment deadline of September 26, 2024. Since that time, however, broadcasters have encountered a number of issues when trying to pay their fees. The most common issues include: Difficulty accessing the system Assessment of inaccurate fees Failure to […]
After postponing consideration of a proposal (which we wrote about here) from the Republican Commissioners at the Federal Election Commission to reject calls for a rulemaking to look at whether to require that there be labeling of political ads generated by artificial intelligence that falsely depicts a candidate, the AI item is back on the... Continue Reading…
As we noted this past weekend in our weekly update of regulatory actions, the FCC last Friday released its Order setting the regulatory fees due from broadcasters and other FCC regulated entities – fees that the FCC is required to collect each year the start of the federal government’s new fiscal year which begins in... Continue Reading…
Following last week’s adoption of the 2024 Regulatory Fee Report and Order, which we discussed here, the Federal Communications Commission today released its annual Public Notice setting 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on September 26, 2024 as the payment deadline for fiscal year 2024 regulatory fees. The FCC also opened the online system for submitting those […]
Following last week’s adoption of the 2024 Regulatory Fee Report and Order, which we discussed here, the Federal Communications Commission today released its annual Public Notice setting 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on September 26, 2024 as the payment deadline for fiscal year 2024 regulatory fees. The FCC also opened the online system for submitting those […]
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past two weeks, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. On our Broadcast Law Blog, we highlighted the regulatory dates of importance to broadcasters in September. We also looked... Continue Reading…
Today, the Federal Communications Commission released its Report and Order setting this year’s annual regulatory fee amounts. Payments will be made electronically via the FCC’s Commission Registration System (CORES), but the FCC has yet to announce the date the system will open or the date the fees are due. Given that the fees must be […]
The lowest unit rate window for the November 5 general election opens today, September 6. With that date in mind, we thought that it was a good idea to review the basic FCC rules and policies affecting those charges. In this election, with the Presidency and control in both houses of Congress at stake as... Continue Reading…