[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 250 (Tuesday, December 31, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 72361-72362]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-28181]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
[OMB 3060-0754; FRS 16357]
Information Collection Approved by the Office of Management and
Budget
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval for the following public
information collections pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501-3520). An agency may not conduct or sponsor a
collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number, and no person is required to respond to a collection of
information unless it displays a currently valid control number.
Comments concerning the accuracy of the burden estimates and any
suggestions for reducing the burden should be directed to the person
listed below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kathy Berthot, Policy Division, Media
Bureau, at (202) 418-7454, or email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control No.: 3060-0754.
OMB Approval Date: 12/18/2019.
Expiration Date: 12/31/2022.
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: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Business or other for profit entities.
Number of Respondents: 1,758 respondents; 1,758 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 these collections is contained in Sections
54(i) and 303 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
Total Annual Burden: 17,580 hours.
Total Annual Cost: $1,054,800.
Privacy Impact Assessment: No impact.
Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: There is no need for
confidentiality with respect to this collection of information.
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
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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.
Cecilia Sigmund,
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 2019-28181 Filed 12-30-19; 8:45 am]
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