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Sponsorship Identification Requirements for Foreign Government-Provided Programming
The Federal Communications Commission published this final rule in the Federal Register on July 16, 2024. It took effect on August 15, 2024.
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What the agency says
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) takes steps to ensure clear and reasonable foreign sponsorship identification rules, which require radio and television broadcast stations to inform audiences when programming aired pursuant to a lease of airtime on the station is sponsored by a foreign governmental entity. The document replaces a previous requirement of the rules with a new approach that provides licensees with two options for demonstrating that they have sought to obtain the information needed to determine whether the programming being provided by a lessee is sponsored by a foreign governmental entity. The revised approach addresses concerns broadcasters had regarding the burdens and complexity of the rule and clarifies when the rule applies.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-15259
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule
- Agency
- Federal Communications Commission
- Published
- July 16, 2024
- Takes effect
- August 15, 2024
- Dates
- Amendatory instruction 2 (47 CFR 73.1212(j)(8) and (k)) is effective August 15, 2024, and amendatory instruction 3 (47 CFR 73.1212(j)(3)) is delayed indefinitely. The Commission will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date.
- Docket
- MB Docket No. 20-299; FCC 24-61; FR ID 228169
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 47 CFR 73
- Topics
- Radio; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Television
- Pages
- 19
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