FCC Cracking Down on Long Periods of Station Silence – Short-Term Renewals for Radio Stations Silent More than 25% of License Term

By |2022-07-19T10:31:29-05:00July 19th, 2022|Legal News|

The FCC’s Audio Division, in the latter part of the license renewal cycle for radio stations, seems to have adopted a more aggressive position on stations that were silent for extended periods of time during their license term.  In our summary of last week’s events of importance to broadcasters, we noted one case where an... Continue Reading…

More FCC Broadcast Applications Moving to LMS – Including Requests for STAs

By |2022-05-04T09:56:07-05:00May 4th, 2022|Legal News|

The FCC this week released a Public Notice (that we mentioned in our update on regulatory dates for May) announcing that, on May 17, many new applications and other filings will be migrating to the FCC’s newer LMS filing platform.  These include many of the documents that had been until recently filed in the FCC’s... Continue Reading…

The Past Two Weeks in Broadcast Regulation: December 18, 2021 to December 31, 2021

By |2022-01-02T10:09:03-06:00January 2nd, 2022|Legal News|

Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the last two weeks, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FCC released the results of the August 11 Nationwide EAS Test, finding that, compared to the 2019 test... Continue Reading…

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