Breaking a long silence, the Media Bureau has at last announced that the revised Ownership Report (Form 323) for commercial broadcasters should be available sometime in the next five days.… Continue Reading
Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth has filed a Petition with the Commission, asking it to review the social security number/FRN component of its new Ownership Report (FCC Form 323) for commercial broadcast stations.… Continue Reading
The December 15 deadline for filing the revised Ownership Report (Form 323) for commercial broadcasters has been extended to January 11.… Continue Reading
On November 19 the FCC published a "System of Records Notice" (SORN) regarding the revised Form 323. The timing of that publication may, under the Privacy Act, force the Commission to delay the filing deadline, at least briefly, or make some changes to its CDBS filing system.… Continue Reading
The murky situation surrounding the FCC's effort to deploy its revised Ownership Report (FCC Form 323) just got murkier with the filing of a letter from the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council.… Continue Reading
Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth has filed a Motion for Stay with the Commission, asking it to hold off on the implementation of its new Ownership Report (FCC Form 323) for commercial broadcast stations.… Continue Reading
It's official. The Media Bureau has announced that the new biennial Ownership Report (FCC Form 323) is due to be filed by December 15, 2009.… Continue Reading
Surprising many oddsmakers, the OMB has approved the FCC's revised Ownership Report (FCC Form 323) for commercial broadcast licensees. The new form still isn't ready for prime-time: the FCC first has to issue a public notice, but that could come any day now, with the deadline for filing at least 30 days after that notice.… Continue Reading
The Media Bureau has announced, on its own motion, that it is extending the deadline for commercial broadcast licensees to file their initial revised Ownership Reports (FCC Form 323).… Continue Reading
Remember last May, when the Commission issued its Report and Order about biennial Ownership Reports? Sure you do. And do you remember how that new form would require anyone with any attributable interest in a broadcast licensee to provide his/her/its own separate and distinct FCC Registration Number? Ummm, neither do we . , , but that's what the revised form would require.… Continue Reading
The order overhauling the ownership reporting requirements for commercial broadcasters (and proposing a corresponding overhaul on the noncommercial side) has been published in the Federal Register. The new rules are NOT yet effective, but the FedReg publication does set deadlines for comments on the NCE proposals AND for comments on the Paperwork Reduction Act aspects of both the adopted and proposed rules.… Continue Reading
We have been advised by a Media Bureau representative that biennial Ownership Reports currently due to be filed by June 1 and August 1 will still have to be filed on or before those dates. We are also told that the Commission is still considering whether to suspend the requirement for reports due to be filed by October 1.… Continue Reading
Last month the Commission announced that it had modified its ownership reporting processes and forms. We expected that, when the full text of that action was released, we would have greater insight into the new forms, in particular. We were wrong.… Continue Reading
In a sweeping action that signals the re-awakening of race- and gender-based government regulation of broadcast ownership, the Commission has re-vamped its rules and related forms for reporting the ownership of commercial broadcast stations.… Continue Reading
