filing of broadcasters contracts

FCC Delays Filing Date for Biennial Ownership Report While Considering Its Value – What Other Broadcast Regulatory Obligations May Be Under Review?

By David Oxenford|2025-08-08T11:07:23-05:00August 8th, 2025|Legal News|

Last week, as we noted in our last regular summary of the prior week’s regulatory activity, the FCC’s Media Bureau announced that it had waived the requirement for broadcasters to file their next Biennial Ownership Reports while the FCC considers whether to even continue to require the use of this form. Ownership reports were set... Continue Reading…

Elimination of Requirement for Broadcasters to File Contracts and Agreements with the FCC Becomes Effective

By David Oxenford|2019-02-14T10:57:41-06:00February 14th, 2019|Legal News|

Back in October, the FCC eliminated the requirement that broadcasters file contracts and organizational documents with the Commission. See our post here for more details. That change became effective on January 22, 2019, as noted in an FCC Public Notice released earlier this week. This change was part of the Modernization of Media Regulation initiative,...… Continue Reading

FCC Adopts Change in Rules Eliminating Broadcaster’s Obligations to File Certain Contracts

By David Oxenford|2018-10-24T10:13:37-05:00October 24th, 2018|Legal News|

The FCC yesterday adopted an Order eliminating the requirement that broadcasters file with the Commission copies of certain contracts, agreements and other documents relating to ownership and control – instead relying on the obligations to either upload the documents to a station’s online public file, or to place a list of the documents in the...… Continue Reading

FCC Releases Draft Order to Eliminate Broadcasters’ Obligations to File Contracts, Relying on Online Public File to Make Documents Available

By David Oxenford|2018-10-04T11:12:47-05:00October 4th, 2018|Legal News|

The FCC this week released its draft order proposing to eliminate the requirement that broadcasters file certain contracts relating to ownership and control with the Commission. Instead, the disclosure of these documents will be made simply by observing the current requirement that stations either (1) make those documents available in the station’s online public file,...… Continue Reading