On September 30, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) voted 3-0 to approve a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), starting the next phase of the FCC’s 2022 Quadrennial Review to examine whether certain...more
10/3/2025
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On September 9, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (draft NPRM) that, if adopted at the September 2025 Open Commission Meeting, would commence the next phase of the...more
9/11/2025
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By September 25, 2025, broadcast (radio and television) licensees must pay all required annual regulatory fee payments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Payments received after the deadline will be assessed a...more
9/9/2025
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On July 8, 2025, the Federal Register published a summary of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) Public Notice seeking to refresh the record in the National Television Multiple Ownership Rule proceeding,...more
On June 18, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a Public Notice seeking to refresh the record in the National Television Multiple Ownership Rule proceeding, which has been pending since...more
6/23/2025
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By September 26, 2024, broadcast (radio and television) licensees must pay all required annual regulatory fee payments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission). Payments received after the deadline will be...more
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released the Report and Order (Order) in the 2018 Quadrennial Review, one day before the December 27 deadline mandated by the United States Court of Appeals for the...more
According to the internet, rubber stamps can be traced back to 100 AD, when people in China carved text into wood (rubber as we know it in the 21st century wasn’t around until the 1800s) and then dipped the carved wood into...more
By September 20, 2023, broadcast (radio and television) licensees must pay all required annual regulatory fee payments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission). Payments received after the deadline will be...more
By September 28, 2022, broadcast (Radio and Television) licensees must pay all required annual regulatory fee payments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission). Payments received after the deadline will be...more
On June 17, 2021, the Report and Order adopting the FCC’s new foreign sponsorship identification rules for broadcasters was published in the Federal Register. The rules, summarized here, require broadcasters to take certain...more
Beginning on July 27, 2021, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will auction four AM and 136 FM construction permits in Auction 109. Auction 109 includes the FM radio permits previously included in Auction 106, which...more
As we have previously described, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) recently adopted an Order eliminating the so-called radio duplication rule, which prohibited more than 25% duplication of programming...more