Official Documents
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Main Studio Rules
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On October 25, 2001 the Mass Media Bureau released an Order granting the National Association of Broadcasters request for a temporary, sixty-day waiver of Public Inspection File requirements.
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Memorandum Opinion & Order in the Matter of National Association of Broadcasters Request for Temporary Waiver of Public Inspection File Requirements; da012497, released October 25, 2001.
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On June 7, 1999, the Mass Media Bureau released the revised version of The Public and Broadcasting. This manual provides a general overview of broadcast regulation for the public. It has been revised to bring it up-to-date and also to make it clear and understandable to the general public.
On May 28, 1999, the Commission released its Memorandum Opinion and Order, FCC 99-118, in this proceeding, affirming most of the Report and Order in MM Docket No. 97-138, but revising Sections 73.3526 and 73.3527 with respect to the telephone accommodation requirements.
The Report and Order, released on August 11, 1998, adopted rules which allow a station to locate its main studio at any location within the principal community contour of any station licensed to the same community of license, or 25 miles from the reference coordinates of the center of its community of license, whichever it chooses. Under the new rules, licensees are also required to maintain a station's public inspection files at its main studio. Licensees may choose to maintain all or part of their public files in a computer database rather than in paper files. The Report and Order also revised the contents of the public inspection files to clarify and simplify them.
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Memorandum Opinion & Order in the Matter of Review of the Commission's Rules regarding the main studio and local public inspection files of broadcast television and radio stations; MM Docket No. 97-138, FCC 99-118, released May 28, 1999.
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Report & Order in the Matter of Review of the Commission's Rules regarding the main studio and local public inspection files of broadcast television and radio stations; MM Docket No. 97-138, FCC 98-175, released August 11, 1998.
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The Public and Broadcasting
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The Public and Broadcasting manual provides a general overview of broadcast regulation for the public. It is to be kept in the local public inspection file of all commercial and noncommercial educational broadcast stations "at all times." See 47 CFR §§ 73.3526 (e)(8), and 73.3527(e)(7). Stations are to make copies of this document available to requestors free of charge.
On June 7, 1999, the Mass Media Bureau revised the manual to bring it up to date and to make it clear and understandable to the public. Parts of the manual are now outdated, however, and it should be used with caution. The Media Bureau is currently engaged in updating the manual. |
The Electronic Comment Filing System allows you to view other comments that have been filed in FCC Docket and Rulemaking proceedings. These documents will also be available electronically in MS Word 6.0 and higher, MS Excel 4.0 and higher, Word Perfect 5.1 and higher, ASCII Text, and Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF).
Official documents released by the FCC since March 1996 are posted on the Commission’s Web Site. To find a particular document, you can use the FCC Electronic Document Management System (EDOCS) to search the EDOCS database for documents posted on the Internet.
Copies of FCC documents are available for public inspection and copying during regular business hours in the FCC Reference Center, Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th Street, S.W., CY-A257, Washington, D.C., 20554.
The complete text of documents may be purchased from the Commission’s copy contractor, 445 12th Street, S.W., Room CY-B402, Washington, D.C. 20554. To request this document in accessible formats (computer diskettes, large print, audio recording, and Braille), send an e-mail to fcc504@fcc.gov or call the Commission’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 (voice), (202) 418-0432 (TTY).
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Further Assistance
For questions concerning these guidelines for filing comments to the FCC, you may contact the Office of the Secretary at (202) 418-0300, TTY (202) 418-2960. |
