FCC Issues Latest MVPD EEO Audit Letters

By John Eggerton
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Responses are due next month

FCC seal
(Image credit: FCC)

MVPDS should check out the following list to see whether they will have an EEO reporting audit to deal with.

The FCC sends out periodic audit letters to a random selection of MVPDs, with responses due Nov. 20.

Even systems too small to be under the EEO program requirements must respond to the letter with a list of their employees (EEO programs only apply to systems with more than six full-time employees.

The FCC annually audits about 5% of all MVPDs (and broadcast stations).

On the list released Tuesday (Oct. 6), Mediacom and Comcast topped the systems getting letters.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.