July 2025 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters –Quarterly Issues/Programs Lists, Comment Deadlines, Political Windows, and more

By |2025-06-24T11:51:09-05:00June 24th, 2025|Legal News|

The lazy days of summer provide little respite from the regulatory actions of importance to broadcasters.  July brings quarterly requirements, including most importantly, the obligation to upload Quarterly Issues/Programs Lists to a station’s online public file.  There are comment deadlines in July in three FCC proceedings: on regulatory fees, on a proposal for LPTV stations... Continue Reading…

This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters:  June 16, 2025 to June 20, 2025

By |2025-06-21T18:23:25-05:00June 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 discussed broadcasters’ obligations under the FCC’s modified broadcast foreign sponsorship identification rules, which became... Continue Reading…

FCC Announces Effective Date of Modifications to Rules Governing the Purchase of Broadcast Airtime By Agents of Foreign Governments

By |2025-06-19T11:23:21-05:00June 19th, 2025|Legal News|

Just about a year ago, the FCC issued an Order which, as we wrote here, contained some good news and some bad news for broadcasters.  The good news was that the FCC came up with a relatively short form (far shorter than the multi-page form originally proposed) that broadcasters could use to assess whether a... Continue Reading…

June 2025 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters – Annual EEO Public File Reports, Comment Deadlines, and More

By |2025-05-27T10:03:28-05:00May 27th, 2025|Legal News|

Though school may be letting out for many, the FCC does not take a summer recess.  Instead, regulation continues.  Perhaps most importantly, Chairman Carr will have a Republican majority on the FCC for the first time since the change in administration, as Democratic Commissioner Starks has said that he is leaving the Commission before its... Continue Reading…

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