Depending on who's doing the including, inclusion of a radio station in an Arbitron market may not be subject to a two-year waiting period for purposes of multiple ownership calculation.… Continue Reading
OMB has approved some relatively modest changes to FCC Forms 314 and 315 to advance implementation of the Tribal Priorities adopted last year with respect to AM and FM stations.… Continue Reading
The revised versions of Section 73.3573 and Form 301 adopted in connection with the FCC's Tribal Priority process relative to the allotment of commercial FM channels have received OMB's seal of Paperwork Reduction Act approval.… Continue Reading
The FCC has adopted a process to assure that Native American tribes get first dibs on commercial FM channels allotted pursuant to Tribal Priorities.… Continue Reading
The Commission's been sitting on some reconsideration petitions for months (in one proceeding) and years (in another), but so what? You've got two weeks (including Christmas and New Year's) to check them out and respond to them.… Continue Reading
The AM and FM channel allotment priorities adopted in the Rural Radio proceeding are now fully effective -- meaning that OMB has signed off on the "information collection", or certification, aspects of those new priorities.… Continue Reading
If you've got anything you'd like to say to the Feds about the FCC's new rural radio certification requirements, your last chance to do so is fast approaching. The Commission has just announced the deadline for what is likely to be the last round of public comments before those requirements formally take effect.… Continue Reading
The effective date for some, but not all, of the rules adopted in the Rural Radio Second Report and Order has been set. But the real attention-grabber in the Second R&O was the Commission's overhaul of Section 307(b) policies. When do those new policies become effective?… Continue Reading
The Commission has signaled that the recently adopted certification requirements for AM/FM applications proposing changes in community-of-license need to be approved by OMB. The process of seeking that approval has now started.… Continue Reading
If you're looking to move an AM or FM radio station from a small community to a different, bigger, community, your job probably just got a boatload harder.… Continue Reading
