TV Children’s Commercial Time Limits Records Due

Each commercial full power and Class A TV station must upload records to substantiate the station’s certification, made in its license renewal application, of compliance with the commercial limits on children’s programming.  These records must be uploaded to the station’s online public file in the OPIF system (https://publicfiles.fcc.gov).  January 10, 2020, will be the due date for these records covering the fourth quarter of 2019 (i.e., the period October 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019), and these records should remain in the public file for the duration of the license term.  As part of the 2019 overhaul of the children’s television programming rules, the FCC harmonized subsequent upload dates for these children’s commercial time limits records with the new annual Children’s Television Programming Report filing deadline, which means that, in future years, station records substantiating compliance with the commercial limits in children’s programming must be uploaded within 30 days of the end of the preceding calendar year (i.e., by January 30 each year).