FCC Adopts FY 2018 Regulatory Fees, Rejects DBS Objections
Commissioners adopted the FCC FY 2018 regulatory fee schedule and rejected direct broadcast satellite arguments against hiking the DBS regulatory fee, said an order released Wednesday. The fee assessment will collect $322 million, the agency said. It rejected DBS arguments…
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against the rate hike (see 1806220017) in the past and was doing so again for the same reasons. It said starting with FY 2019, it will assess full-power TV fees based on population covered by the station's contour instead of designated market areas, and will use the TVStudy database for that. The agency is amending rules on collection of delinquent debts so it no longer can assess its administrative costs for collecting delinquent regulatory and application fee debt, effective Oct. 1.