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Sep 12, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Kathleen A. Kirby |Gregory Masters |Joan Stewart
By September 26, 2024, broadcast (radio and television) licensees must pay all required annual regulatory fee payments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission). Payments received after the deadline will be assessed a 25% late payment penalty. Regulatory fee filings for fiscal year 2024 must be prepared and submitted through the Regulatory Fee Manager feature in the FCC’s “COmmission REgistration System,” more commonly known as “CORES.” The CORES website is found here.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Kathleen A. Kirby |Stephanie Rigizadeh |Joan Stewart
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC or Commission) Closed Captioning Display Settings Report and Order (Order) takes effect on September 16, 2024. Subject to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval, covered entities will have approximately two years to comply with the new requirements.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Kyle Gutierrez |Kathleen A. Kirby |Ari S. Meltzer
On August 15, 2024, portions of the Federal Communications Commission’s recent amendments to its broadcast sponsorship identification requirements for leased programming provided by foreign governmental entities (FSID Rules) will go into effect. As we explained in a previous alert, the FCC released a Second Report and Order (Second R&O) revising its FSID Rules last month.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Kathleen A. Kirby |Ari S. Meltzer |Eve Reed
On July 3, 2024, the Federal Register published a summary of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) Order on Reconsideration (Order) that reinstated section 73.3556 of the Commission’s rules (the radio duplication rule) for commercial FM stations. The rule becomes effective on Friday, August 2, 2024. As we explained previously, the Order reimposes requirements that the Commission lifted in August 2020.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Kathleen A. Kirby |Ari S. Meltzer |Eve Reed
On June 27, 2024, the Federal Register published a summary of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) seeking comment on proposed revisions to Commission rules related to Low Power Television (LPTV) service, including Class A television, LPTV, and TV translator stations. Comments are due on July 29, 2024, and reply comments are due on August 26, 2024.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Kathleen A. Kirby |Ari S. Meltzer |Stephanie Rigizadeh
On June 18, 2024, the Media Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a Memorandum Opinion and Order (Order) granting a rare waiver of its Top-Four Prohibition to allow Marquee Broadcasting West, Inc. (Marquee) to acquire a television station from Gray Television (Gray) that has two top-four rated network affiliated streams.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Kyle Gutierrez |Kathleen A. Kirby |Ari S. Meltzer
On June 10, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a Second Report and Order (Second R&O) that amends the Commission’s foreign sponsorship identification rules (FSID Rules). As explained in more detail below, the new rules impose upon broadcasters diligence, certification, and recordkeeping requirements with respect to certain leases of programming time as well as political issue advertisements and paid public service announcements (PSAs).
June 3, 2024 FCC EEO Deadlines for Stations in DC, MD, VA, WV, MI, OH, AZ, ID, NV, NM, UT, and WY | JD Supra
May 8, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Kathleen A. Kirby |Joan Stewart
Annual EEO Public File ReportRadio and television station employment units (SEUs) located in the District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming with five or more full-time employees must prepare by Monday June 3, 2024, an annual EEO Public File Report (PFR).
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Kathleen A. Kirby |Ari S. Meltzer |Stephanie Rigizadeh |Joan Stewart
On January 17, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that proposes to prioritize review of certain applications submitted by commercial and noncommercial radio and television (TV) broadcast stations that provide locally originated programming.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Kyle Gutierrez |Diane Holland |Kathleen A. Kirby
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released the Report and Order (Order) in the 2018 Quadrennial Review, one day before the December 27 deadline mandated by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. As expected, the Commission made no major changes to the Local Radio Ownership Rule (Local Radio Rule) and retained the Dual Network Rule.
