- The House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Communications & Technology Subcommittee held an FCC oversight hearing. The hearing featured written
LPFM application requirements
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: 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: December 16, 2024 to December 20, 2024
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Posted in AM Radio, Assignments and Transfers, EEO Compliance/Diversity, Emergency Communications, Fairness Doctrine, FCC Fees, FCC Fines, FM Radio, FM Translators and LPFM, General FCC, License Renewal, Noncommercial Broadcasting, Programming Regulations, Public Interest Obligations/Localism, Television
- 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: December 9, 2024 to December 13, 2024
- At its December regular monthly Open Meeting, the FCC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing to update several broadcast
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: December 2, 2024 to December 6, 2024
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- The FCC’s Media Bureau announced that comments and reply comments are due December 13 and 18, respectively, in response to
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: October 21, 2024 to October 25, 2024
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- The National Association of Broadcasters denounced recent threats to revoke broadcast station licenses for political reasons, stating: “The threat from
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: July 8, 2024 to July 12, 2024
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Posted in Advertising Issues, AM Radio, Artificial Intelligence, Broadcast Performance Royalty, FCC Fines, FM Translators and LPFM, General FCC, License Renewal, Multiple Ownership Rules, Music Rights, Noncommercial Broadcasting, Payola and Sponsorship Identification, Political Broadcasting, Programming Regulations, Public Interest Obligations/Localism, Television
- The FCC’s weekly list of items on circulation (those orders or rulemaking proposals that have been drafted and are currently
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: June 17, 2024 to June 21, 2024
- The FCC’s Media Bureau asked for comments on a petition for rulemaking proposing the creation of a new class of
