[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 7, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 19302]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-07898]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
[OMB 3060-0754; FR ID 292858]
Information Collection Being Reviewed by the Federal
Communications Commission
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens,
and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) invites the
general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on the following information collections. Comments are
requested concerning: whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the
Commission, including whether the information shall have practical
utility; the accuracy of the Commission's burden estimate; ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information collected;
ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on the
respondents, including the use of automated collection burden on small
business concerns with fewer than 25 employees.
The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. No person
shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection
of information subject to the PRA that does not display a valid OMB
control number.
DATES: Written PRA comments should be submitted on or before July 7,
2025. If you anticipate that you will be submitting comments but find
it difficult to do so within the period of time allowed by this notice,
you should advise the contact listed below as soon as possible.
ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Cathy Williams, FCC, via email to
[email protected] and to [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information about the
information collection, contact Cathy Williams at (202) 418-2918.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 3060-0754.
Title: FCC Form 2100, Application for Media Bureau Audio and Video
Service Authorization, Schedule H.
Form Number: FCC Form 2100, Schedule H.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 1,767 respondents; 1,767 responses.
Estimated Time per Response: 10 hours.
Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement: Annual reporting
requirement.
Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits.
Statutory authority for this collection of information is contained in
Sections 4(i) and 303 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 17,670 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $1,060,200.
Needs and Uses: Commercial full-power and Class A television
broadcast stations are required to file FCC Form 2100, Schedule H
(formerly FCC Form 398) (Children's Television Programming Report)
within 30 days after the end of each calendar year. FCC Form 2100,
Schedule H is a standardized form that: (a) Provides a consistent
format for reporting the children's educational television programming
aired by licensees to meet their obligation under the Children's
Television Act of 1990 (CTA), and (b) facilitates efforts by the public
and the FCC to monitor compliance with the CTA.
Commercial full-power and Class A television stations are required
to complete FCC Form 2100, Schedule H within 30 days after the end of
each calendar year and file the form with the Commission. The
Commission places the form in the station's online public inspection
file maintained on the Commission's database (www.fcc.gov). Stations
use FCC Form 2100, Schedule H to report, among other things, the Core
Programming (i.e., children's educational and informational
programming) the station aired the previous calendar year. FCC Form
2100, Schedule H also includes a ``Preemption Report'' that must be
completed for each Core Program that was preempted during the year.
This ``Preemption Report'' requests information on the reason for the
preemption, the date of each preemption, the reason for the preemption
and, if the program was rescheduled, the date and time the program was
re-aired.
On July 10, 2019, the Commission adopted a Report and Order in MB
Docket Nos. 18-202 and 17-105, FCC 19-67, In the Matter of Children's
Television Programming Rules; Modernization of Media Regulation
Initiative, which modernizes the children's television programming
rules in light of changes to the media landscape that have occurred
since the rules were first adopted. Among other revisions, the Report
and Order revises the children's television programming rules to expand
the Core Programming hours to 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.; modify the safe
harbor processing guidelines for determining compliance with the
children's programming rules; require that broadcast stations air the
substantial majority of their Core Programming on their primary program
streams, but permit broadcast stations to air up to 13 hours per
quarter of regularly scheduled weekly programming on a multicast
stream; eliminate the additional processing guideline applicable to
stations that multicast; and modify the rules governing preemption of
Core Programming. In addition, the Report and Order revises the
children's television programming reporting requirements by requiring
that Children's Television Programming Reports (FCC Form 2100, Schedule
H) be filed on an annual rather than quarterly basis, within 30 days
after the end of the calendar year; eliminating the requirements that
the reports include information describing the educational and
informational purpose of each Core Program aired during the current
reporting period and each Core Program that the licensee expects to air
during the next reporting period; eliminating the requirement to
identify the program guide publishers who were sent information
regarding the licensee's Core Programs; and streamlining the form by
eliminating certain fields. The Report and Order also eliminates the
requirement to publicize the Children's Television Programming Reports.
The Report and Order directs the Media Bureau to make modifications to
FCC Form 2100, Schedule H as needed to conform the form with the
revisions to the children's programming rules, including the changes to
the processing guidelines and preemption policies.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2025-07898 Filed 5-6-25; 8:45 am]
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