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October Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters: License Renewals, Broadcast Ownership Filings, Quarterly Issues/Programs Lists, Rulemaking Comment Dates and More

By David Oxenford and Adam Sandler|2021-09-28T21:54:30-05:00September 28th, 2021|Legal News|

As we enter the last quarter of the year, the broadcasters’ October calendar is full of important regulatory dates and deadlines. We share some of those dates below and urge you to stay in close touch with your lawyers, engineers, and consultants for the dates and deadlines applicable to your station’s operations. On or before... Continue Reading…

Major Kid Vid Revisions Coming Soon… as the FCC Releases a Draft NPRM

By Sekoia Rogers|2018-07-05T07:35:21-05:00July 5th, 2018|Legal News|

When FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly published a blog post back in January that called for the reexamination of the Children’s Programming Requirements, we questioned whether the requirements would still exist in the near future. We can now report that we are not likely to see the complete demise of the FCC’s Children Programming Requirements (colloquially...… Continue Reading

Children’s Programming Requirements on the Chopping Block?

By Dan Kirkpatrick|2018-01-29T16:21:56-06:00January 29th, 2018|Legal News|

Could the FCC’s children’s programming requirements (colloquially known as “kidvid”) be on their way out? If Commissioner O’Rielly gets his way, it seems that they might be; Or at the very least they will be subject to some significant revision. In a blog post released on Friday, O’Rielly argued that the rules are outdated, impose...… Continue Reading