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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters:  July 14, 2025 to July 18, 2025

By David Oxenford & Keenan Adamchak on July 20, 2025

Posted in Advertising Issues, AM Radio, Assignments and Transfers, Cable Carriage, Children's Programming and Advertising, Emergency Communications, FCC Fines, FM Radio, FM Translators and LPFM, General FCC, License Renewal, Noncommercial Broadcasting, Programming Regulations, Public Interest Obligations/Localism, Television, Tower Issues

• FCC Chairman Carr announced the agenda for the Commission’s regular monthly open meeting scheduled for August 7, and it contains

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters:  February 24, 2025 to February 28, 2025

By David Oxenford & Keenan Adamchak on March 2, 2025

Posted in Digital Television, EEO Compliance/Diversity, FCC Fees, FCC Fines, FM Radio, FM Translators and LPFM, General FCC, Internet Video, Noncommercial Broadcasting, On Line Media, Payola and Sponsorship Identification, Programming Regulations, Television, Website Issues

• The National Association of Broadcasters filed a Petition for Rulemaking asking the FCC to require that full-power television stations complete

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters:  January 27, 2025 to January 31, 2025

By David Oxenford & Keenan Adamchak on February 2, 2025

Posted in Advertising Issues, AM Radio, Broadcast Performance Royalty, Cable Carriage, Digital Radio, EEO Compliance/Diversity, Emergency Communications, FM Radio, FM Translators and LPFM, General FCC, Intellectual Property, Internet Radio, Music Rights, Noncommercial Broadcasting, On Line Media, Political Broadcasting, Programming Regulations, Television, Tower Issues

• FCC Chairman Carr sent a letter to NPR and PBS announcing that he has asked the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau to

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters:  January 13, 2025 to January 17, 2025

By David Oxenford & Keenan Adamchak on January 18, 2025

Posted in AM Radio, Assignments and Transfers, Digital Television, Emergency Communications, Fairness Doctrine, FCC Fines, FM Radio, FM Translators and LPFM, General FCC, License Renewal, Political Broadcasting, Programming Regulations, Public Interest Obligations/Localism, Television, Tower Issues

• The FCC’s Enforcement and Media Bureaus, under a new Docket opened by the Commission called “Preserving the First Amendment,” dismissed

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