Just before Labor Day, the FCC published in the Federal Register the new rules regarding notice of Must Carry and Retransmission Consent elections. Those rules, as we summarized in more detail here, provide that, before the next election cycle deadline on October 1, 2020, TV stations need to provide notice in their online public files as to whether they elect carriage through must-carry or retransmission consent for the three-year cycle that begins on January 1, 2021. MVPDs must provide information in the FCC’s database of a contact person at the MVPD for revised notices. In the next election cycle, stations can give electronic notice to those designated contacts about changes in their elections for the next cycle. These rules will become effective on October 29 and require broadcasters to provide contact information for carriage inquiries in their online public file by July 31, 2020, while MVPDs must provide contact information either in their online public file or in the FCC’s Cable Operations and Licensing System (COALS) by that date. The Federal Register also gave notice of the deadline for comments on the FCC’s further inquiry as to how to deal in this system with entities (like “qualified low power TV stations”) that do not have a public file or MVPDs (like Open Video Systems) that do not maintain a COALS account. Comments are due September 30, with replies due October 15.