BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:185@vabonline.com DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200330T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200330T000000 DTSTAMP:20200220T155453Z URL:https://www.vabonline.com/events/first-ever-annual-childrens-televisio n-programming-report-due/ SUMMARY:First-Ever Annual Children’s Television Programming Report Due DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2019 overhaul of the children’s television pro gramming rules\, the FCC did away with quarterly children’s television p rogramming report filings.  To satisfy the new\, annual filing requiremen t\, stations must file a children’s television programming report within 30 days of the end of the preceding calendar year (i.e.\, by January 30 e ach year).  For 2020\, however\, the FCC has extended the due date for fi ling the new annual report until March 30\, 2020.\n\n \;\n\nFor the in itial annual filing (due March 30 instead of January 30)\, the reporting p eriod will only cover September 16\, 2019\, to December 31\, 2019.  Broad casters may wish to reach out to legal counsel to ensure compliance with t he new rules.\n\n \;\n\nChildren’s Television Programming Reports re flect efforts made by the station during the relevant reporting period to serve the educational and informational needs of children.  These reports must be filed through the FCC’s LMS filing system\, which is available at https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/login.html.  Once the repo rt is filed\, the FCC is supposed to automatically populate the station’ s online public file in the OPIF system (https://publicfiles.fcc.gov) with the filed report. Full power and Class A television stations should confi rm that the report is accessible in the station’s online public file wit hin 24 hours after filing the report. CATEGORIES:Regulatory Calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR