- Paramount/CBS settled its lawsuit with President Trump for $16 million. Last Fall, President Trump sued CBS for its supposed deceptive
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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: June 23, 2025 to June 27, 2025
- Olivia Trusty was sworn in as an FCC Commissioner, restoring the Commission’s quorum just before its regular monthly Open Meeting.
July 2025 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters –Quarterly Issues/Programs Lists, Comment Deadlines, Political Windows, and more
The lazy days of summer provide little respite from the regulatory actions of importance to broadcasters. July brings quarterly requirements, including most importantly, the obligation to upload Quarterly Issues/Programs Lists to a station’s online public file. There are comment deadlines in July in three FCC proceedings: on regulatory fees, on a proposal for LPTV stations…
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: June 16, 2025 to June 20, 2025
- The Senate voted 53-45 to confirm Olivia Trusty as an FCC Commissioner on a largely party-line vote. As a result
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: June 9, 2025 to June 13, 2025
- The FCC’s Media Bureau announced that June 10 is the effective date for the FCC’s modified broadcast foreign sponsorship identification
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- The FCC sent to Congress its Budget Estimates request for Fiscal Year 2026. The budget request contains a few specific
June 2025 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters – Annual EEO Public File Reports, Comment Deadlines, and More
Though school may be letting out for many, the FCC does not take a summer recess. Instead, regulation continues. Perhaps most importantly, Chairman Carr will have a Republican majority on the FCC for the first time since the change in administration, as Democratic Commissioner Starks has said that he is leaving the Commission before its June meeting. See our article from earlier in the week for our views on some of the issues that may be prioritized once the Chairman’s majority is in place. In addition, there are some routine deadlines – including EEO filing deadlines for broadcasters in several states across the country and deadlines for comments or reply comments in a number of rulemaking proceedings. And there are political windows that open in June, principally for elections that will occur in August.
June 2 is the deadline for radio and television station employment units in Arizona, the District of Columbia, Idaho, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming with five or more full-time employees to upload their Annual EEO Public File Report to their stations’ Online Public Inspection Files. A station employment unit is a station or cluster of commonly controlled stations serving the same general geographic area having at least one common employee. For employment units with five or more full-time employees, the annual report covers hiring and employment outreach activities for the prior year. A link to the uploaded report must also be included on the home page of each station’s website, if the station has a website. Be timely getting these reports into your station’s OPIF, as even a single late report can lead to FCC fines (see our article here about a recent $26,000 fine for a single late EEO report).Continue Reading June 2025 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters – Annual EEO Public File Reports, Comment Deadlines, and More
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- The FCC’s Media Bureau extended the deadline for TV broadcasters to comply with the audible crawl rule’s until the earlier