Enforcement Bureau Extends EEO Audit Deadline to Oct. 17
The Enforcement Bureau has extended the deadline to Oct. 17 for responses to its 2025 equal employment opportunity audit letters and will allow stations targeted in the audit to keep their responses to questions about diversity practices private, said a public notice Friday. Responses had been due Sept. 22.
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The 2025 EEO audit letter incorporated a host of questions that weren't in past audits, which appear to be aimed at finding grievances against broadcaster diversity hiring programs (see 2508220035). Broadcast attorneys have told us they're unclear about precisely how to answer those questions and what the FCC will do with the information.
Friday’s notice also waived online public filing requirements for the answers to the new questions “in order to protect privacy and confidential business information from public disclosure.” Broadcasters have long opposed FCC efforts to make individualized EEO data public and in May successfully appealed an order from the previous FCC that would have required all stations to upload workforce demographic data to their online public files (see 2505190044). Friday's notice also clarified that advertising contracts aren't included in the FCC's inquiries and that stations with fewer than five employees aren't required to respond.