ETRS Form One Due by October 30, 2026 Last month, the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau released a Public Notice announcing that FEMA, in collaboration with the FCC, will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (“EAS”) at 2:20pm ET on November 17, 2026 (with a backup date of December 3,…

Last week, the FCC released a Report and Order establishing its Fiscal Year 2026 regulatory fees.  All licensees must pay their required annual regulatory fees by September 24, 2026. Payments received after the deadline will be assessed a 25% late payment penalty.

Beginning August 17, 2026, all multichannel video programming distributors (“MVPDs”) must ensure that closed captioning display settings be “readily accessible” on “covered apparatus” to viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Last week, the FCC adopted a Report and Order that relaxes several broadband label requirements first adopted in 2022. The changes, once effective, will eliminate or simplify several requirements, including fee itemization, machine-readable label files, and retention of discontinued labels. The revised rules will also provide greater flexibility in how providers make labels available to consumers at…

EEO Form 396-C Due September 30, 2026