Comments on Children's Television Programming due June 1st
As we reported recently (see earlier blog here), at the end of April, the FCC issued a Public Notice asking for information as to the compliance of television broadcasters with their obligations to provide programming that addresses the educational and informational needs of children. The Commission asks questions in its Notice as to whether television broadcasters are complying with the rules, and whether the rules provide sufficient guidance to broadcasters as to what kind of programming satisfies the rules for educational broadcasting. That Public Notice was published in the Federal Register today, establishing the dates for submitting comments to the FCC on the issue.
Accordingly, interested parties have until June 1, 2007 to submit Comments to the FCC, and until June 18, 2007 to submit Reply Comments. This is a very short period for comments and the clock is now ticking. So parties interested in providing the FCC with input about the status of children's television programming and compliance with the Commission's children's programming rules are encouraged to start drafting now. Comments can be submitted in paper, or through the FCC's Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) available here.
The notice was published in the Federal Register on May 2, 2007. Doesn't this mean, pursuant to the notice by the FCC, that comments are due on or about June 18, 2007?
Truthserum-
REPLY comments are due on or around June 18th, but initial comments are due by June 1st. The notice was published in the FR on May 2, 2007 and set the date for Initial Comments as June 1, 2007, and the date for Reply Comments as June 18, 2007. A copy of the FR publication articulating the comment deadlines is available at:
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20071800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2007/pdf/E7-8300.pdf
And the 30 days for comment, and 45 days for reply comments is consistent with the FCC's Public Notice.