The FCC’s Media Bureau today announced changes to the filing window for
submitting Biennial Ownership Reports for commercial and
noncommercial stations. The opening of the filing window will be
delayed from October 1, 2019 to November 1, 2019, and the window
will now close on January 31, 2020, rather than
the previously-announced deadline of December 1, 2019.
According to the announcement, the reason for the one-month
delay in opening the filing window relates to the implementation of
“additional technical improvements” to the form, which
will include “burden-reducing capabilities.” In
particular, the Media Bureau indicated that filers will have the
ability to pre-fill certain forms, and copy and paste
already-entered information from other forms. In light of the
one-month delay in opening the window, the Media Bureau extended
the deadline for filing as well, and provided additional time due
to the intervening holidays. Even though the window will not open
until
