The Video Division licenses commercial and noncommercial educational TV, Low Power TV, Class A TV and TV Translators broadcast services. The Division provides legal and technical analysis of applications and recommends appropriate disposition of applications, requests for waivers and other pleadings.
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Video Division
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(202) 418-1600
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Division Chief
Deputy Division Chief
Deputy Division Chief
Associate Division Chief
Associate Division Chief
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Barbara Kreisman
David Brown
Kevin Harding
Mark Colombo
Vacant
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Video Sections
Internet Queries
Our popular internet queries may be used to retrieve information about television and radio broadcast stations.
- AM Query
- FM Query
- TV Query
- DTV Reception Maps
- Television Single Channel Maps
- CDBS Public Access Search
- LMS Database Public Searches
- Children’s Programming Query
- Mailing Addresses for Broadcast Stations
- Public Inspection Files
- Remember to Rescan!
Requested Information
- Children’s Programming Fact Sheet
- How to Apply for a Broadcast Station General information about the process.
- License Renewal Applications for TV Broadcast Stations All television broadcast station licenses must be renewed four months before the expiration date of the stations license. Licensees must file a license renewal application (FCC Form 303-S) and the Broadcast Equal Employment Opportunity Program Statement (FCC Form 396). 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.
- Loud Commercials
- 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 December 2018)
- 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.
- Special Temporary Authority, Emergency Antennas, and Silent Stations