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January 2026 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters – Quarterly Issues/Programs Lists, Children’s Television Programming Reporting, New Webcasting Royalties, Expansion of Audio Description Requirements, Comment Deadlines, Political Windows, and More

By David Oxenford and Keenan Adamchak|2025-12-28T09:46:55-06:00December 28th, 2025|Legal News|

Today, we would normally publish our look back at the prior week’s regulatory activity of importance to broadcasters but, as we noted last week, we are taking this week off and will publish a summary of the regulatory activity during the two week holiday period next Sunday. But, as the start of a new month... Continue Reading…

This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: December 15, 2025 to December 19, 2025

By David Oxenford and Keenan Adamchak|2025-12-21T08:20:35-06:00December 21st, 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. On our Broadcast Law Blog, we looked at some of the issues raised by the Senate Judiciary Committee’s recent hearing... Continue Reading…

December 2025 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters – Post-Shutdown Deadlines, EEO Public File Reports, Comment Deadlines, Political Windows, and more

By David Oxenford and Keenan Adamchak|2025-11-24T10:31:01-06:00November 24th, 2025|Legal News|

Even with the holidays upon us, there are many regulatory dates for broadcasters in December and early January. That is particularly true this year, now that the federal government shutdown has ended and the FCC is playing catch-up on regulatory deadlines. As we discuss below and in more detail here, many of these revised dates... Continue Reading…

This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: November 17, 2025 to November 21, 2025

By David Oxenford and Keenan Adamchak|2025-11-23T09:31:06-06:00November 23rd, 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. Continue Reading…

December 17 Comment Date Set in 2022 Quadrennial Review Looking at Local Ownership Rules – What is at Stake, Particularly for Radio?

By David Oxenford|2025-11-17T10:56:47-06:00November 17th, 2025|Legal News|

Wasting no time following the reopening of the government, the FCC has published its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the 2022 Quadrennial Review in the Federal Register, setting December 17 as the deadline for initial comments on the questions asked by the FCC. We summarized the issues raised by the FCC in our article here. ... Continue Reading…

Federal Government Reopens with FCC Decision to Provide More Time to Submit Delayed Filings – and Watch for Comment Deadlines in Major Proceedings on Media Ownership and the ATSC 3.0 Transition

By David Oxenford|2025-11-14T10:35:01-06:00November 14th, 2025|Legal News|

With the federal government shutdown finally ending yesterday, broadcasters need to be prepared to take steps to comply with FCC rules whose enforcement has been put on hold since October 1, when the government shut down most FCC electronic filing systems, including the online public files. Now that the FCC has reopened, the FCC has... Continue Reading…

This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: October 13, 2025 to October 17, 2025 – Special Shutdown Issue

By David Oxenford and Keenan Adamchak|2025-10-18T13:34:34-05:00October 18th, 2025|Legal News|

We would normally provide you with 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. But, as the government shutdown has drastically limited activity at the FCC, and as Congress did... Continue Reading…

This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: September 29, 2025 to October 3, 2025

By David Oxenford and Keenan Adamchak|2025-10-04T22:01:21-05:00October 4th, 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. On our Broadcast Law Blog, we took a look at the upcoming regulatory dates affecting broadcasters this October, which may... Continue Reading…

This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: September 8, 2025 to September 12, 2025

By David Oxenford and Keenan Adamchak|2025-09-13T21:22:01-05:00September 13th, 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. On our Broadcast Law Blog, we highlighted the FCC Public Notices and Fact Sheets detailing the procedures for paying broadcasters’... Continue Reading…