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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: November 1, 2026 to November 6, 2026
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau released a Public Notice reminding Emergency Alert Service (EAS) Participants, including broadcasters, of the upcoming nationwide EAS test scheduled to occur at 2:20 p.m. ET on November 17, with a back-up date of December 3.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: November 1, 2026 to November 6, 2026
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau released a Public Notice reminding Emergency Alert Service (EAS) Participants, including broadcasters, of the upcoming nationwide EAS test scheduled to occur at 2:20 p.m. ET on November 17, with a back-up date of December 3.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: October 26, 2026 to October 30, 2026
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
November 2026 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters – Nationwide EAS Test and ETRS Reporting, NCE FM Translator Filing Window, Daylight Savings Time, and more
With much of everyone’s focus on the outcome of the November 3 midterm elections, broadcasters cannot forget the regulatory dates and deadlines in November and early December. While the dates and deadlines in November tend to be lighter than in other months, many routine deadlines do fall in early December, and even the upcoming month does have dates worthy of note to all broadcasters—including the nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS), which is scheduled for November 17.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: October 19, 2026 to October 23, 2026
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. FCC Chairman Carr published a tweet saying that there had been a “significant surge in entirely Fake Polls and Suppression Polls” designed to interfere with the election process.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: October 19, 2026 to October 23, 2026
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. FCC Chairman Carr published a tweet saying that there had been a “significant surge in entirely Fake Polls and Suppression Polls” designed to interfere with the election process.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: October 12, 2026 to October 16, 2026
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The U.S. Supreme Court issued an order extending the temporary stay it issued last week (see our note here), rejecting the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit which had granted a mandamus petition filed by several Democratic candidates.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: October 5, 2026 to October 9, 2026
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: September 28, 2026 to October 2, 2026
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FCC released the final text of its Report and Order eliminating the 39% national TV ownership cap – an Order adopted at its August Open Meeting (see our note here).
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: August 3, 2026 to August 7, 2026
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. President Trump has nominated Danielle Thumann Severs for one of the vacant seats on the FCC. Thumann currently works as Senior Counsel to FCC Chair Brendan Carr.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: July 20, 2026 to July 24, 2026
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. At its regular monthly Open Meeting, the FCC adopted a Report and Order, Order of Proposed Modification, and Order on Reconsideration which reconfigures the Upper C-band (3.7-4.2 GHz) for terrestrial wireless use.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: July 13, 2026 to July 17, 2026
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FCC released a draft Report and Order, which if adopted at its August 6 regular monthly Open Meeting, would repeal the 39% national TV ownership cap.
June 2026 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters - Foreign Sponsorship Identification Requirements Compliance Deadline, Annual EEO Public File Reports, Comment Deadlines, Political Windows, and more | Broadcast Law Blog
Though school may be letting out for many, the FCC does not take a summer recess. Instead, regulation continues with the filing of Annual EEO Public File Reports due for some broadcasters on June 1.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: May 18, 2026 to May 22, 2026
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The language of the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, which would mandate the inclusion of AM radios in all cars sold in the United States, has been added by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce to the pending surface transportation reauthorization legislation.
May 2026 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters – Comment Deadlines, Political Windows, and more
While May is one of those months that does not have any routine, scheduled FCC filing deadlines, there are still some regulatory dates and deadlines in May of which broadcasters should be aware. As detailed below, this includes comment deadlines in an FCC proceeding concerning the state of competition in the video and audio marketplaces and an inquiry by the FCC’s Media Bureau regarding the status of the television programming ratings system.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: April 13, 2026 to April 17, 2026
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. FCC Chairman Carr stated in a cable news interview that the FCC could investigate broadcasters and their on-air personalities for failing to disclose conflicts of interests motivating their program content choices, specifically addressing choices made by late-night TV hosts.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: April 6, 2026 to April 10, 2026
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FCC’s Media Bureau released a Memorandum Opinion and Order extending the waiver of the Audible Crawl Rule for another 18 months (through November 29, 2027) or until the FCC rules on the NAB’s pending petition for rulemaking and waiver – whichever is sooner.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: February 23, 2026 to February 27, 2026
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FCC’s Media Bureau issued a Public Notice seeking comment on how changes in the sports programming marketplace have impacted consumers and broadcasters, including broadcasters’ ability to meet their public interest obligations.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: January 12, 2026 to January 16, 2026
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Communications & Technology Subcommittee held an FCC oversight hearing.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: January 5, 2026 to January 9, 2026
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. FCC Chairman Carr announced that the FCC will be considering two orders concerning foreign ownership requirements, including those for broadcasters, at its next regular monthly Open Meeting on January 29.
A Broadcaster’s Regulatory Calendar for 2026 - Important Dates for Staying in Compliance With Your Legal Obligations
2026 has begun, so it is time to look at the regulatory dates of importance to broadcasters in the new year. Later this week, we will look ahead at some of the broadcast issues likely to be tackled by the FCC and Congress in this new year. But today, we will look at dates and deadlines already on the calendar. So, as we do each year at about this time, we put together a calendar of those dates. We offer for your review our 2026 Broadcaster’s Regulatory Calendar.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: December 8, 2025 to December 12, 2025
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. • The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau entered into a Consent Decree with a public broadcaster to resolve an investigation into whether false Emergency Alert System (EAS) tones were broadcast on each of the broadcaster’s 46 licensed stations and approximately 500 affiliated stations.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: December 1, 2025 to December 5, 2025
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. • The FCC’s Media Bureau announced that the deadline for broadcasters to comply with the new foreign sponsorship identification requirements has been extended from December 8 until June 7, 2026.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: November 24, 2025 to November 28, 2025
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FCC released a draft Report and Order that, if adopted at its next regular monthly Open Meeting on December 18, would modify its rules governing Class A TV, LPTV, and TV translator stations.
December 2025 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters - Post-Shutdown Deadlines, EEO Public File Reports, Comment Deadlines, Political Windows, and more
Even with the holidays upon us, there are many regulatory dates for broadcasters in December and early January. That is particularly true this year, now that the federal government shutdown has ended and the FCC is playing catch-up on regulatory deadlines. As we discuss below and in more detail here, many of these revised dates for the submission of documents that would have been due during the shutdown will fall in the month of December.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: November 17, 2025 to November 21, 2025
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FCC and the FCC’s Media Bureau released several Public Notices (here, here, here, and here) announcing revised filing and regulatory deadlines following its reopening after the end of the federal government shutdown.
November 2025 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters - Federal Government Shutdown, Daylight Savings Time, Comment Deadlines, FCC Open Meeting, and more
In November, the biggest regulatory news may be the continuing federal government shutdown is continuing. If the shutdown persists, comment deadlines discussed below may shift until after the government resumes normal operations. As we discussed here, the FCC provided guidelines before the shutdown began on how regulatory deadlines would be impacted during the government shutdown, with most deadlines postponed until the day after the day that the FCC reopens.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: October 20, 2025 to October 24, 2025
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. Although the federal government shutdown continues for its fourth week, the FCC announced that it still intends to hold its regular monthly Open Meeting on October 28.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: October 6, 2025 to October 10, 2025
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
The Government Shutdown and Issues it Raises for Broadcasters
With the federal government shutdown now in its third day, having started on October 1, 2025, after Congress failed to fund the government for the coming year or to pass a “continuing resolution” to allow government agencies to function at their current levels, we thought that we should summarize the FCC’s guidance as to what is and what is not functional at the FCC during this period.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: September 22, 2025 to September 26, 2025
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. Congress has thus far failed to pass any legislation to provide funding for government operations after the September 30 end of the fiscal year.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: September 15, 2025 to September 19, 2025
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past weeks, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. FCC Chairman Carr suggested in a podcast interview that the FCC could penalize ABC/Disney if the company failed to discipline late-night host Jimmy Kimmel over comments he made on Charlie Kirk’s assassination and urged ABC affiliates to preempt Kimmel’s show.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: September 8, 2025 to September 12, 2025
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FCC released a draft Notice of Proposed Rulemaking initiating its 2022 Quadrennial Review of its media ownership rules.
The Last Two Weeks in Regulation for Broadcasters: August 25, 2025 to September 5, 2025
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past two weeks, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FCC released its Report and Order setting its annual regulatory fees for 2025. The FCC increased TV station fees by approximately 1.2% from last year, while slightly decreasing fees for most radio stations.
FCC 2025 Regulatory Fees Set - Dates and Payment Procedures to Follow
Last Friday, the FCC released its Order adopting the regulatory fees to be paid by broadcasters and other regulated entities at some point before the October 1 start of the federal government’s new fiscal year. The Commission slightly increased fees for TV stations by 1.2% from last year (from $0.006598 to $0.006674 per population served) after the FCC refined its fee estimates made earlier this year to account for exempt stations.
September 2025 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters - FCC Regulatory Fees, Political Windows, EAS Event Code, Rulemaking Comment Deadlines, and more
It is time for our look at September’s regulatory dates and deadlines to which broadcasters should be paying attention – and the deadline that probably is most important to all commercial broadcasters is not yet known. That, of course, is the deadline for the payment of annual regulatory fees – which must be made before the federal government’s October 1 start of the new fiscal year.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: August 18, 2025 to August 22, 2025
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The Radio Music License Committee announced settlements with both ASCAP and BMI of rate court litigation over the royalties to be paid these organizations by commercial radio companies for the public performance of musical works.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: August 4, 2025 to August 8, 2025
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: August 4, 2025 to August 8, 2025
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: July 28, 2025 to August 1, 2025
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FCC’s Media Bureau waived the requirement that broadcasters file their biennial ownership reports by December 1 of this year, postponing the filing deadline until June 1, 2027 unless the Bureau states otherwise.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: July 28, 2025 to August 1, 2025
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. • The FCC’s Media Bureau waived the requirement that broadcasters file their biennial ownership reports by December 1 of this year, postponing the filing deadline until June 1, 2027 unless the Bureau states otherwise.
August 2025 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters - Watching for the Annual Reg Fee Announcement, EEO Annual Filings, Comment Deadlines, and Political Windows | Open Legal Blog Archive
Although many, including Congress, take the last of their summer vacations in August, there are still many dates to which broadcasters should be paying attention this month. One deadline that most commercial broadcasters should be anticipating is the FCC’s order that will set the amount of their Annual Regulatory Fees, which will be paid sometime in September before the October 1 start of the federal government’s new fiscal year.
August 2025 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters - Watching for the Annual Reg Fee Announcement, EEO Annual Filings, Comment Deadlines, and Political Windows
Although many, including Congress, take the last of their summer vacations in August, there are still many dates to which broadcasters should be paying attention this month. One deadline that most commercial broadcasters should be anticipating is the FCC’s order that will set the amount of their Annual Regulatory Fees, which will be paid sometime in September before the October 1 start of the federal government’s new fiscal year.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: July 21, 2025 to July 25, 2025
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: July 7, 2025 to July 11, 2025
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FCC announced that comments and reply comments are due August 4 and August 22, respectively, responding to its Public Notice released last month seeking to refresh the record in the National Television Multiple Ownership Rule proceeding.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: June 30, 2025 to July 3, 2025
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. Paramount/CBS settled its lawsuit with President Trump for $16 million.
July 2025 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters -Quarterly Issues/Programs Lists, Comment Deadlines, Political Windows, and more
The lazy days of summer provide little respite from the regulatory actions of importance to broadcasters. July brings quarterly requirements, including most importantly, the obligation to upload Quarterly Issues/Programs Lists to a station’s online public file.
This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: June 16, 2025 to June 20, 2025
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The Senate voted 53-45 to confirm Olivia Trusty as an FCC Commissioner on a largely party-line vote. As a result of Trusty’s confirmation, the FCC now has a quorum and a Republican majority, and it may well soon move on some broadcast deregulatory proposals, including ownership rule changes.
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. FCC Commissioners Simington and Starks both announced that they were leaving the FCC as of June 6.
June 2025 Regulatory Dates for Broadcasters - Annual EEO Public File Reports, Comment Deadlines, and More
Though school may be letting out for many, the FCC does not take a summer recess. Instead, regulation continues. Perhaps most importantly, Chairman Carr will have a Republican majority on the FCC for the first time since the change in administration, as Democratic Commissioner Starks has said that he is leaving the Commission before its June meeting. See our article from earlier in the week for our views on some of the issues that may be prioritized once the Chairman’s majority is in place.
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