FCC 2025 Regulatory Fees, Information, and Instructions
Due date: 2025 FCC Regulatory Fees are due not later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on September 25.
How do I know what I owe? Go to http://www.fccfees.com/, known as the fee look-up site. Click “View Fee Information and Exempt Status for any Broadcast Property”. You can look up each station by call sign OR by Facility ID, but Facility ID is more accurate if your station call letters have changed at any point over the past year. Write down the information, or print/save this screen for each station.
LPTV Broadcasters Oppose Increased Filing Obligations, Call for Increased Power
Low-power television broadcasters and NAB don’t think the FCC should broadly apply online public file requirements to LPTV, said a host of reply comments filed in docket 24-147 by Monday’s deadline.
FCC Sued In Move To Stop ‘Low Power Protection Act’
The owner of a low-power digital television station serving New Haven, Conn., has petitioned the D.C. Federal Appeals Court in a move that seeks to stay, and reverse, the FCC’s unanimous decision to sign the “Low Power Protection Act” into law.
5G Broadcast Trials & Launches
5G Broadcast is approaching commercial deployment by some video service providers after a raft of trials were completed in 2023. The first tentative commercial services are arriving from the likes of Boston based WWOO in the USA.