The FCC got Office of Management and Budget approval for...
The FCC got Office of Management and Budget approval for three years of information collection requirements for putting TV stations’ public and political files online. The requirements are effective Aug. 2, the commission said in Tuesday’s Federal Register (http://xrl.us/bndrzg). “At…
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least theoretically” starting that day, “all full-power and Class A TV licensees will have to start uploading to the FCC’s online file system all newly-created documents required to be placed in the public file except for letters/emails from the public and, in some-but-not-all cases, political file materials,” broadcast lawyer Harry Cole wrote on Fletcher Heald’s blog (http://xrl.us/bndrzp). “The Commission has not yet announced that it has, in fact, developed the online system to which the files will have to be uploaded.” Cole noted the NAB has sued the agency in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit over the April order, and industry officials have said OMB approval could prompt the association to seek a stay from the agency and the court (CD June 7 p2). NAB had no comment.