December 2008
This Advisory is designed to aid commercial, as well as noncommercial educational, radio and television station broadcasters in complying with the FCC’s public inspection file rules. See 47 C.F.R. §§ 73.3526 and 73.3527. This Advisory tracks the public access, content, retention and organizational requirements of those regulations, as well as summarizes the public information requirements mandated by passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002.
A PDF version of this entire article can be found at Special Advisory for Commercial and Noncommercial Broadcasters: Radio and Television Station Public Inspection File Requirements.