- The FCC released a draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking initiating its 2022 Quadrennial Review of its media ownership rules. Congress
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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: August 4, 2025 to August 8, 2025
- The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau announced that October 3 is the deadline for EAS Participants, including broadcasters,
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: June 30, 2025 to July 3, 2025
- Paramount/CBS settled its lawsuit with President Trump for $16 million. Last Fall, President Trump sued CBS for its supposed deceptive
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: June 9, 2025 to June 13, 2025
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- The FCC’s Media Bureau announced that June 10 is the effective date for the FCC’s modified broadcast foreign sponsorship identification
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: June 3, 2025 to June 6, 2025
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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: May 12, 2025 to May 16, 2025
- The FCC’s Media Bureau extended the deadline for TV broadcasters to comply with the audible crawl rule’s until the earlier
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: April 28, 2025 to May 2, 2025
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- President Trump signed an Executive Order purporting to end federal subsidies for NPR and PBS provided through the Corporation for
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: February 24, 2025 to February 28, 2025
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- The National Association of Broadcasters filed a Petition for Rulemaking asking the FCC to require that full-power television stations complete
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: January 13, 2025 to January 17, 2025
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- The FCC’s Enforcement and Media Bureaus, under a new Docket opened by the Commission called “Preserving the First Amendment,” dismissed
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: January 6, 2025 to January 10, 2025
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- The FCC released an Order increasing by an average of more than 17% its application fees, including those for broadcast
