September 2025 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters – FCC Regulatory Fees, Political Windows, EAS Event Code, Rulemaking Comment Deadlines, and more

By |2025-08-26T10:33:37-05:00August 26th, 2025|Legal News|

It is time for our look at September’s regulatory dates and deadlines to which broadcasters should be paying attention – and the deadline that probably is most important to all commercial broadcasters is not yet known.  That, of course, is the deadline for the payment of annual regulatory fees – which must be made before... Continue Reading…

This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters:  August 18, 2025 to August 22, 2025

By |2025-08-24T07:30:59-05:00August 24th, 2025|Legal News|

Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. With the upcoming long Labor Day weekend, depending on the news in the next week, we may not publish this... Continue Reading…

August 2025 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters – Watching for the Annual Reg Fee Announcement, EEO Annual Filings, Comment Deadlines, and Political Windows

By |2025-08-01T09:51:58-05:00August 1st, 2025|Legal News|

Although many, including Congress, take the last of their summer vacations in August, there are still many dates to which broadcasters should be paying attention this month.  One deadline that most commercial broadcasters should be anticipating is the FCC’s order that will set the amount of their Annual Regulatory Fees, which will be paid sometime... Continue Reading…

FCC Announces Filing of Radio Regulatory Fees is Back On – Due Date Still September 26

By |2024-09-18T07:52:47-05:00September 18th, 2024|Legal News|

The FCC yesterday released a Public Notice announcing that its CORES system, through which regulatory fees are submitted, has been updated and the incorrect regulatory fee amounts for radio stations have been corrected.  As we wrote last week, the FCC asked that radio broadcasters suspend their fee filings when it became apparent that many radio... Continue Reading…

FCC Recognizes Issues with Regulatory Fee Amounts in CORES Filing System: Asks Broadcasters to Wait to Pay Fees While Problems are Addressed

By |2024-09-13T16:41:51-05:00September 13th, 2024|Legal News|

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…

FCC Regulatory Fees Due September 26  – FCC CORES Database Available for Payment, Some Filing Glitches Reported

By |2024-09-12T10:33:32-05:00September 12th, 2024|Legal News|

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…

The Past Two Weeks in Regulation for Broadcasters:  August 26, 2024 to September 6, 2024

By |2024-09-07T22:08:08-05:00September 7th, 2024|Legal News|

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…

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