Summary

The Video Division licenses commercial and noncommercial educationalTV, Low Power TV, Class A TV, TV translators and TV Booster broadcast services. The Division provides legal and technical analysis of applications and recommends appropriate disposition of applications, requests for waivers and other pleadings.

Video Sections

• DTV Page


• TV Page


• LPTV Page
• KidVid Page

Our popular Internet Queries may be used to retrieve information about Television and Radio broadcast stations.

• TV Query


• FM Query


• AM Query


• KidVid Query


• CDBS Public Access Search


• Mailing Addresses for Broadcast Stations


• FCC Word / Number Search. Use the Word / Number Search to help locate Public Notices referencing an application by entering the right-hand part of the application file number, (e.g., 20010612ACX) and selecting 'keyword' search.

 
• How to Apply for a Broadcast Station. General information about the process.
  
  
• Digital Television Status. Provides information on the progress on DTV implementation.
  
  
• Appendix B to DTV Table of Allotments.
  
  
• License Renewal Applications for TV Broadcast Stations. All television broadcast station licenses will expire between 2003 and 2006. Licensees must file a license renewal application (FCC Form 303-S) and the Broadcast Equal Employment Opportunity Program Statement (FCC Form 396) four months before the expiration date of the station's license. This page provides information about the license renewal process for radio broadcast stations.
  
  
• Children's Television. What is required under the Children's Television Act?
  
  
• Broadcast of Obscene and/or Indecent Material. This page provides an overview of FCC regulations.
     
• The Public and Broadcasting provides a brief, non-technical overview of the FCC's regulation of radio and television, including Public Inspection File requirements. (Revised May 2008)
     
• FCC Word / Number Search. Use the Word / Number Search to help locate Public Notices referencing an application by entering the right-hand part of the application file number, (e.g., 20010612ACX), or Docket by entering the Docket number(e.g. 98-93)

   
• MB Tower Siting Information Guide was created at the request of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation regarding the inclusion of broadcast facilities in the March 16, 2001 nationwide Programmatic Agreement on Collocation of communications antennae. It is also intended to help State Historic Preservation Officers as well as Tribal Historic Preservation Officers understand broadcast facilities.

   
• Religious Broadcasting -- The FCC will not prohibit religious organizations' ownership of broadcast stations. A petition (RM-2493, from Madilyn Murray O'Hare ) which had requested that the FCC make changes was denied in 1975 (54 FCC 2d 941). Excerpts from that proceeding are located here.

Headlines

4/24/08
Media Bureau Releases Updated Version of "The Public and Broadcasting" and Announces That Broadcast Information Specialists are Available For Public Inquiries.
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat

4/23/08
FCC Releases Order on Reconsideration and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on DTV Consumer Education Initiative.
Erratum: Word
Order & FNPRM: Word | Acrobat
Attachment: Acrobat
McDowell Statement: Word | Acrobat

3/28/08
Media Bureau Announces Effective Date for the Rules in the DTV Consumer Education Initiative.
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat | DTV Quarterly Activity Station Report Form 388

3/21/08
MO&O on Reconsideration in DTV Table of Allotments Proceeding and Eighth R&O Finalizing Post-Transition DTV Allotments Published in Federal Register Today.
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat

3/6/08
The Commission Adopts MO&O on Reconsideration in DTV Table of Allotments Proceeding and Eighth R&O Finalizing Post-Transition DTV Allotments.
MO&O: Word | Acrobat
Appendix B to DTV Table of Allotments: Excel | Acrobat

3/6/08
Media Bureau Grants Extension of Time to File Comments and Reply Comments in Response to Broadcast Localism Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat

3/5/08
FCC Adopts Rules to Promote Diversification of Broadcast Ownership.
R&O/NPRM: Word | Acrobat
News Release (12/18/07): Word | Acrobat
Martin Statement: Word | Acrobat
Copps Statement: Word | Acrobat
Adelstein Statement: Word | Acrobat
Tate Statement: Word | Acrobat
McDowell Statement: Word | Acrobat

3/5/08
Media Bureau Proposes Amending Final DTV Table of Allotments, Television Broadcast Stations (Riverside, California).
Erratum: Word | Acrobat
NPRM: Word | Acrobat

3/3/08
FCC Adopts Digital Television Consumer Education Order.
Erratum: Word | Acrobat
News Release: Word | Acrobat
Report & Order: Word | Acrobat
Attachment D: Acrobat
Attachment E: Acrobat
Martin Statement: Word | Acrobat
Copps Statement: Word | Acrobat
Adelstein Statement: Word | Acrobat
Tate Statement: Word | Acrobat
McDowell Statement: Word | Acrobat

2/15/08
Media Bureau Announces Comment and Reply Comment Dates for the Broadcast Localism Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat

2/12/08
Commission Modifies the Condition Set Forth in Paragraph 47 of the March 27, 2007 Order Approving the Acquisition of Univision Communications, Inc.
MO&O: Word | Acrobat
Copps Statement: Word | Acrobat

2/4/08
FCC Releases Order on Revision to Newspaper/Broadcast Cross-Ownership Rule.
Order: Word | Acrobat
News Release (12/18/07): Word | Acrobat
Martin Statement: Word | Acrobat
Copps Statement: Word | Acrobat
Adelstein Statement: Word | Acrobat
Tate Statement: Word | Acrobat
McDowell Statement: Word | Acrobat

2/4/08
Media Bureau Announces Comment And Reply Comment Dates For The Third FNPRM on Cable Carriage of Digital Television Broadcast Signals.
Erratum: Word | Acrobat
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat

1/30/08
Third DTV Periodic Report and Order Published in Federal Register Today; FCC Forms 301, 337, 340 and 387 Now Available For Filing.
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat

1/24/08
FCC Adopts Localism Proposals to Ensure Programming is Responsive to Needs of Local Communities.
Report: Word | Acrobat
News Release (12/18/07): Word | Acrobat
Martin Statement: Word | Acrobat
Copps Statement: Word | Acrobat
Adelstein Statement: Word | Acrobat
Tate Statement: Word | Acrobat
McDowell Statement: Word | Acrobat

1/24/08
FCC Requires Television Broadcasters to Provide More Local Programming Information to the Public.
Erratum: Word | Acrobat
R&O: Word | Acrobat
News Release (11/27/07): Word | Acrobat
Martin Statement: Word | Acrobat
Copps Statement: Word | Acrobat
Adelstein Statement: Word | Acrobat
Tate Statement: Word | Acrobat
McDowell Statement: Word | Acrobat