The FCC announced the largest civil penalty involving a broadcaster in the agency's 86-year history. Sinclair Broadcasting agreed to pay a $48 million civil penalty and abide by a strict compliance plan in order to close three open investigations
The Media Bureau, in consultation with the Enforcement Bureau, provides certain broadcast licensees and MVPDs a limited waiver of EEO rules to allow for the re-hiring of full-time employees laid off due to the COVID-19 pandemic