WASHINGTON, D.C. — The FCC’s Media Bureau has unveiled the license renewal filing procedures for all classes of television stations.
In doing so, it is reminding stations of the availability of the Form 2100, Schedule 303-S, otherwise known as the new Children’s Television Programming declaratory form.
The Bureau focuses its communique, however, on the 2020-2023 TV license renewal cycle.
Applications for stations in the first license renewal group (stations licensed to
communities in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia) are available and may now be filed.
Applications for stations in the first license renewal group must be filed no later than June 1. Television stations in subsequent license renewal groups will be able to access their renewal applications six months before the expiration date of their current license.
Every commercial and noncommercial educational (NCE) full-power TV, TV Translator, Low
Power TV (LPTV), and Class A TV station must electronically file its license renewal form (collectively, TV Stations) four months prior to the scheduled expiration date of their current license.
However, TV Translator and LPTV stations operating digital companion channel facilities do not have to file separate renewal applications for their digital facilities; rather, they only have to file renewal applications for their analog facilities. Additionally, regardless of the number of full-time staff it employs, all TV Stations except TV Translator stations must file the Form 2100, Schedule 396 Broadcast Equal Employment Opportunity Program Report.
Licensees with pending applications from the prior renewal cycle are still subject to these filing requirements.
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