- The FCC released an Order increasing by an average of more than 17% its application fees, including those for broadcast
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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: December 16, 2024 to December 20, 2024
- Congress failed to include the AM For Every Vehicle Act in their year-end omnibus spending legislation, meaning that the bill
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: September 30, 2024 to October 4, 2024
- The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau announced that the deadline for EAS Participants to file their annual Emergency
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: September 16, 2024 to September 20, 2024
- The FCC announced that it has corrected its CORES database which had overstated the regulatory fees to be paid by
September 2024 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters – FCC Regulatory Fees, LUC Window for the General Election, Comment Deadlines on AI in Political Advertising and More
It is time for our update on the coming month’s regulatory dates and deadlines to which broadcasters should be paying attention – and the deadline that probably is most important to all commercial broadcasters is not yet known. That, of course, is the deadline for the payment of annual regulatory fees – which must be made before the federal government’s October 1 start of the new fiscal year. We expect an announcement of the final decision on the amount of those fees for various broadcasters, and the deadlines for payment, in the next few days. Keep on the alert for that announcement.
A second big date for all commercial broadcasters is September 6, when the lowest unit rate period for political candidate advertising – the “political window” – opens for the November 5 general election. During this 60-day period prior to the general election, legally qualified candidates buying advertising on a broadcast station get the lowest rate for a spot that is then running on the station within the same class of advertising time and in the same daypart (see our article here on the basics of computing LUR). Candidates also get the benefit of all volume discounts without having to buy in volume – i.e., the candidate gets the same rate for buying one spot as the station’s most favored advertiser gets for buying hundreds of spots of the same class. For a deeper dive on how to prepare for the November general election, see our post, here, which also includes a link to our comprehensive Political Broadcasting Guide. Continue Reading September 2024 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters – FCC Regulatory Fees, LUC Window for the General Election, Comment Deadlines on AI in Political Advertising and More
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: August 19, 2024 to August 23, 2024
- Some of the big news for broadcasters this week came not from the FCC, but from the Federal Trade Commission:
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: August 12, 2024 to August 16, 2024
- The FCC announced that oppositions are due August 27 in response to the National Association of Broadcasters’ petition for reconsideration
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: August 5, 2024 to August 9, 2024
- The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau announced that October 4 is the deadline for EAS Participants to file
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: July 29, 2024 to August 2, 2024
- Through a Federal Register publication, the FCC announced comment dates on its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing that broadcasters
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: July 22, 2024 to July 26, 2024
- The FCC released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing that broadcasters and cable operators make on-air disclosures regarding the use