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FCC Requires MVPDs to Submit Reports of Broadcast Station Blackouts

By Mark Malonzo|2025-01-08T13:07:47-06:00January 8th, 2025|Legal News|

Tags: Broadcast, TV, MVPD, Cable, Satellite, FCC, Retransmission Consent, Medi The FCC adopted rules on January 3 that require Multichannel Video Programming Distributors, including cable or satellite providers (“MVPDs” or “Reporting Entities”) to report certain broadcast station blackouts. The rules will be effective 30 days after publication in the Federal Register, but MVPDs will not be required to comply until the...… Continue Reading

ETRS Form One Due Oct. 4 for All EAS Participants

By Mark Malonzo|2024-08-05T15:41:00-05:00August 5th, 2024|Legal News|

The FCC announced today that all EAS Participants must submit their annual Form One filings no later than October 4, 2024. EAS Participants are parties subject to the Emergency Alert System (EAS) rules. Virtually all broadcast stations, wired and wireless cable television systems, Satellite Digital Audio Radio Service, digital audio broadcasting systems, and wireline video...… Continue Reading

FCC Announces Exercise of the Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS)

By Mark Malonzo|2024-05-28T15:49:59-05:00May 28th, 2024|Legal News|

The FCC released a Public Notice today announcing a June 10-12 exercise of the Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS). Communications providers, including broadcast, wireless, satellite, broadband, and wireline providers, interested in participating must register by June 3. DIRS is the FCC online system through which providers report information on the operational status of communications assets...… Continue Reading

Reminder: November 29th Deadline for FCC Filing to Protect 12.7-13.25 GHz Broadcast Auxiliary/Cable Relay Licenses

By Paul J. Feldman|2023-11-17T10:04:16-06:00November 17th, 2023|Legal News|

We remind parties with 12.7 – 13.25 GHz (“13 GHz”) Broadcast Auxiliary/Cable Relay licenses that you have until November 29, 2023 to make a filing at the FCC to protect those licenses, as the FCC moves towards repurposing some or all of that band for other uses. In a May 19, 2023 Notice of Proposed...… Continue Reading

EAS Nationwide Test Scheduled for Wednesday, October 4, 2023

By Daniel Brown|2023-08-03T13:06:42-05:00August 3rd, 2023|Legal News|

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”) and the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) have announced that a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) will take place on October 4, 2023, at 2:20 pm EDT. As we previously reported, EAS participants, with limited exceptions, should have already filed their ETRS Form 1 providing the FCC...… Continue Reading

TV Station Licensees: Don’t Forget the October 1st Deadline for Uploading Election of Cable TV/Satellite Status

By Paul J. Feldman|2023-07-06T09:57:05-05:00July 6th, 2023|Legal News|

While it’s only July, TV station licensees should be mindful of an October 1st deadline for uploading to their station online public information file (“OPIF”), the station’s election of cable TV/satellite must-carry or retransmission consent status. Under the FCC’s rules, for full power and certain Class A/Low Power commercial TV stations, there is a three-year...… Continue Reading

Reminder – EAS Test Reporting System Filing Deadline February 28

By Anne Goodwin Crump and Daniel Brown|2023-02-13T14:19:55-06:00February 13th, 2023|Legal News|

This is a reminder that the FCC previously advised that parties that are Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) Participants, which would include not only virtually all broadcast stations, but also, wired and wireless cable television systems, Satellite Digital Audio Radio Service, and wireline video systems, must submit Form One filings for calendar year 2022 in the...… Continue Reading

FCC REVISES POLITICAL PROGRAMMING AND ADVERTISING RULES

By Paul J. Feldman|2022-01-26T13:31:58-06:00January 26th, 2022|Legal News|

Today, the FCC released a Report and Order (Order), updating the political programming and recordkeeping rules for broadcast licensees, cable television system operators, Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) service providers, and Satellite Digital Audio Radio Service (SDARS) licensees. The Order revises the definition of “legally qualified candidate for public office” to add the use of social...… Continue Reading

Political Broadcast Rules on the Agenda for FCC’s January Open Meeting

By FHH Law|2022-01-11T10:31:00-06:00January 11th, 2022|Legal News|

On January 27, 2022, the FCC will hold its monthly open meeting. The meeting will address increasing the transparency of internet access service providers, amending the definition of a library to clarify that Tribal libraries are eligible for support from the E-Rate program, and resolving issues associated with white space devices and databases. The most...… Continue Reading