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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
October is, on paper, a busy month of regulatory deadlines for broadcasters. As set forth below, the month includes the requirement for almost all broadcasters to complete and upload to their public file their Quarterly Issues/Programs Lists, as well as the date for broadcasters to submit to the FCC their ETRS Form One reporting basic... Continue Reading…
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. Watch for a post early in the week highlighting October regulatory dates and deadlines for broadcasters (assuming that those dates... Continue Reading…
Every four years, the FCC is supposed to conduct a review of its local broadcast ownership rules – the rules that govern the number of radio or television stations in a market in which one person or entity may have an “attributable” interest (some form of control rights defined under very complicated FCC attribution rules).... Continue Reading…