FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report-Episode 77World Cup Report-Part VII, with Mike Brown
As described in more detail below, by April 10, 2025, all radio and television broadcast stations, both commercial and noncommercial, must prepare a list of important issues facing their communities of license and the...more
Broadcasters’ next Quarterly Issues/Programs List (“Quarterly List”) must be placed in stations’ Public Inspection Files by April 10, 2025, reflecting information for the months of January, February, and March 2025....more
On February 6, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) Enforcement Bureau published an Enforcement Advisory reminding radio broadcasters of their disclosure obligations in connection with artist...more
Pillsbury’s communications lawyers have published the FCC Enforcement Monitor monthly since 1999 to inform our clients of notable FCC enforcement actions against FCC license holders and others....more
February 1 is the deadline for broadcast stations licensed to communities in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, and Oklahoma to place their Annual EEO Public File Report in their Public...more
On January 8, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture (NAL) proposing a $369,190 penalty against a television licensee for willfully and...more
The deadline to file the 2024 Annual Children’s Television Programming Report with the FCC is January 30, 2025, reflecting programming aired during the 2024 calendar year. In addition, commercial stations’ documentation of...more
The FCC’s rules require that all Emergency Alert System (EAS) Participants update their identifying information in the EAS Test Reporting System (ETRS) annually. Accordingly, all EAS Participants must update and submit their...more
June 1 is the deadline for broadcast stations licensed to communities in Arizona, the District of Columbia, Idaho, Maryland, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming to place their Annual...more
The Federal Communications Commission recently reinstated commercial and noncommercial television and radio broadcasters' obligation to annually report workforce composition data, including the gender, race, and ethnicity of...more
As anyone who has shopped for jeans recently can appreciate, sometimes what’s old is new again. Indeed, some of us wish we had not been quite so hasty in Marie Kondo-ing our closets now that ‘90s-style jeans are making a...more
Yesterday, the FCC released its Fourth Report and Order, Order on Reconsideration, and Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in its Review of the Commission’s Broadcast and Cable Equal Employment Opportunity Rules and...more
After a hiatus of more than 20 years, the FCC will again require radio and television broadcasters to submit information about the race, ethnicity, and gender of their employees. The information, to be filed on FCC Form...more
For many, Thanksgiving is a time for some combination of family, food, football, and deal hunting. At the risk of contributing to your heartburn, we want to remind you of three upcoming deadlines that you do not want to wait...more
A recent fine imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) underscores how important it is for broadcasters to keep up with their Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) obligations. On October 16, 2023, the FCC’s...more
On particularly difficult rides, Peloton instructor Denis Mortin (a personal favorite) will encourage us huffing and puffing mortals not to quit, which he says can be accomplished by “picking a spot on the floor about 10 feet...more
Annual EEO Public File Report- Radio and television station employment units (SEUs) located in the District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming with...more
The deadline to file the 2022 Annual Children’s Television Programming Report with the FCC is January 30, 2023, reflecting programming aired during the 2022 calendar year. In addition, commercial stations’ documentation of...more
The federal requirements surrounding certain election-related communications leading up to the general election are currently in effect through November 8, 2022. The 90-day coordinated communications period and 60-day...more
On April 22, 2021, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or the Commission) released a Report and Order (the Order) wherein it adopted rules requiring broadcasters to disclose whether certain programming aired on their...more
By October 10, 2019, all radio and television broadcast stations, both commercial and noncommercial, must prepare a list of important issues facing their communities of license and the programs aired during July, August and...more
Yesterday, we advised that the Federal Communications Commission had extended the deadline for uploading Issues/Programs Lists to stations’ online public files to January 30, 2019....more
The FCC has resumed normal operations after the end of the recent partial government shutdown. During the shutdown, broadcast stations were unable to upload documents to the FCC’s online public files, including the 4th...more
The Federal Communications Commission has slowly opened the door to indirect parent entity foreign ownership of broadcast station licenses. This gradual relaxation of longstanding U.S. federal policy has continued to the...more