October 2006 Topics include: FCC Fines Arizona Radio Station $8,000 for Violating the Commission’s Emergency Alert System Rules FCC Finds Multiple Entities for Violating the Commission’s Antenna Structure Rules FCC Fines Puerto Rico Radio Station $8,800 for Failing to Comply with the Terms of its License and for Violating the…

October 2006 Annual DTV Ancillary/Supplementary Services Report for Commercial Digital Television Stations Each commercial and noncommercial educational television broadcast station that has received its digital television license must file FCC Form 317 to report to the FCC whether its station provided ancillary or supplemental services at any time during the…

By Kathryn R. Schmeltzer and Tony Lin October 2006 On September 29, 2006, the FCC released the Second Order on Reconsideration and Second Report and Order (hereafter “Second Order”) regarding the children’s television rules and policies it had established in 2004 but for which it had suspended implementation pending reconsideration.…

By Kathryn R. Schmeltzer, Lauren Lynch Flick and Paul A. Cicelski October 2006 Content of the Quarterly List The next Quarterly Issues/Programs List (“Quarterly List”) must be placed in stations’ local Public Inspection Files by October 10, 2006, reflecting information for the months of July, August, and September. A PDF…

By Kathryn R. Schmeltzer, Lauren Lynch Flick and Paul A. Cicelski October 2006 The next Children’s Television Programming Report must be filed with the FCC and placed in stations’ local Public Inspection Files by October 10, 2006, reflecting programming aired during the months of July, August, and September. A PDF…

September 2006 The Commission has designated a Texas radio station’s license renewal application for hearing after determining that the licensee apparently made several false certifications to the Commission, calling the licensee’s basic character qualifications into question. In January 2003, the licensee applied for a license to cover a previously-granted construction…

By Kathryn R. Schmeltzer, Clifford M. Harrington and Richard R. Zaragoza September 2006 FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology Announces Schedule for Proceeding on Unlicensed Operation in the TV Broadcast Bands As we reported earlier, on March 6, 2006, the FCC released an Order in Complaints Regarding Various Television Broadcasts…

September 2006 Topics include: FCC Designates Texas Radio Station’s Renewal Application for Hearing in Response to Licensee’s False Certifications FCC Fines Missouri Radio Station $16,800 for Violating the Commission’s Public Inspection File and Main Studio Rules and Exceeding Authorized Nighttime Power Limits FCC Rejects Mississippi Radio Station’s Attempt to Avoid…

By Kathryn R. Schmeltzer, Scott R. Flick, Lauren Lynch Flick and Paul A. Cicelski August 2006 TV, Class A TV, LPTV and TV translator stations licensed to communities in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont should be receiving soon a postcard from the FCC reminding them that…

July 2006 On July 24, 2006, the FCC released the text of the Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making (“FNPRM”) in the broadcast ownership proceeding that was adopted at the FCC’s June 21, 2006 agenda meeting. The FNPRM encompasses a number of docketed rule makings – a 2006 quadrennial regulatory…