- The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has scheduled for March 19 the oral argument on the appeals
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The Past Two Weeks in Regulation for Broadcasters: December 23, 2024 to January 3, 2025
- The Commission released a Report and Order
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: September 30, 2024 to October 4, 2024
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Posted in Advertising Issues, AM Radio, Assignments and Transfers, Children's Programming and Advertising, Emergency Communications, FCC Fines, FM Radio, FM Translators and LPFM, General FCC, License Renewal, Low Power Television/Class A TV, Noncommercial Broadcasting, Programming Regulations, Public Interest Obligations/Localism, Television
- 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 9, 2024 to September 13, 2024
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- The FCC announced that annual regulatory fees must be paid through its CORES database by 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: July 15, 2024 to July 19, 2024
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- The FCC’s Media Bureau announced that August 15 is the effective date of the FCC’s expanded foreign government sponsorship identification
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: March 18, 2024 to March 22, 2024
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- Congress passed a $1.2 trillion spending bill to keep the federal government funded through the end of this fiscal year on September 30 – thereby narrowly averting a government shutdown that would have begun as of midnight on Saturday, March 23.
- The FCC issued a Notice of Apparent Liability proposing to fine Nexstar Media Group,
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: January 15 to January 19, 2024
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- President Biden signed a Continuing Resolution passed by Congress averting a federal government shutdown that was to begin on January
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: December 4 to December 8, 2023
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Posted in Advertising Issues, AM Radio, Assignments and Transfers, Cable Carriage, Digital Television, Emergency Communications, FCC Fines, FM Radio, FM Translators and LPFM, General FCC, License Renewal, Low Power Television/Class A TV, Multiple Ownership Rules, Noncommercial Broadcasting, On Line Media, Political Broadcasting, Programming Regulations, Public Interest Obligations/Localism, Television
- The AM for Every Vehicle Act was scheduled for a US Senate vote this week through an expedited process
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: August 7 to August 11, 2023
- The FCC released its Report and Order setting the annual regulatory fees that broadcasters must pay for 2023. The Order