FCC Reminds MVPDs About EEO Reports

The Media Bureau issued a reminder Thursday that MVPDs have a Sept. 30 deadline for filing their Form 396-C EEO annual reports.

The reports are required of systems with six or more full-time employees.

The reports have to be filed online unless they are requesting a waiver of the electronic filing requirement. The commission says those waivers will not be routinely granted, but it does recognize the need for a limited waiver given the potential burden of electronic filing on some entities with limited resources.

The FCC also wants to remind filers that they can fill the form out in several sessions and that "save" does not file the form with the FCC, they must hit the "validate" button.

Further instructions for filing are available at http://www.fcc.gov/mb/elecfile.html.

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.