Rule2026-18778
Review of the Commission's Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 2026
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In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission or FCC) adopts its regulatory fee schedule to assess and collect regulatory fees for Fiscal Year 2026 (FY 26).
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47 CFR Part 1
Review of the Commission's Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
47 CFR Part 1
[MD Docket No. 26-94; FCC 26-59; FR ID 366139]
Review of the Commission's Assessment and Collection of
Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 2026
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal Communications Commission
(Commission or FCC) adopts its regulatory fee schedule to assess and
collect regulatory fees for Fiscal Year 2026 (FY 26).
DATES: Effective September 14, 2026. To avoid penalties and interest,
regulatory fees should be paid by the due date of September 24, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patrick Brogan, Office of Economics
and Analytics, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#cb9baabfb9a2a8a0e589b9a4acaaa58bada8a8e5aca4bd"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="f1a190858398929adfb3839e96909fb1979292df969e87">[email protected]</span></a> or 202-418-7378.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the Commission's Report
and Order in MD Docket No. 26-94, FCC 26-59, adopted on August 26,
2026, and released on August 27, 2026. The full text of this document
is available at <a href="https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-26-59A1.pdf">https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-26-59A1.pdf</a>. To request materials in accessible formats for people with
disabilities (Braille, large print, electronic files, audio format),
send an email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#690f0a0a5c595d290f0a0a470e061f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="583e3b3b6d686c183e3b3b763f372e">[email protected]</span></a> or call the Consumer and Governmental
Affairs Bureau at 202-418-0530 (voice).
Regulatory Flexibility Act. The Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980,
as amended (RFA), requires that an agency prepare a regulatory
flexibility analysis for notice and comment rulemakings, unless the
agency certifies that ``the rule will not, if promulgated, have a
significant economic impact on a substantial number of small
entities.'' Accordingly, the Commission has prepared a final Regulatory
Flexibility Analysis (FRFA) concerning the potential impact of rule and
policy changes contained in the FY 2026 Regulatory Fees Report and
Order. The FRFA is set forth below.
Congressional Review Act. The Commission has determined, and the
Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget, concurs that this rule is non-major
under the Congressional Review Act, 5 U.S.C. 804(2). The Commission
will send a copy of this Report and Order to Congress and the
Government Accountability Office pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A).
Final Paperwork Reduction Act. This document does not contain any
proposed new or substantively modified information collections subject
to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Public Law 104-13. In
addition, therefore, it does not contain any new or modified
information collection burden for small business concerns with fewer
than 25 employees, pursuant to the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act
of 2002, Public Law 107-198, see 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(4).
I. Introduction
1. Each fiscal year (FY), the Commission must adopt a schedule of
regulatory fees to be assessed and collected by the end of September in
an amount that reasonably can be expected to total the Commission's
annual salaries and expenses (S&E) appropriation. Pursuant to the
Commission's statutory obligation in section 9 of the Communications
Act of 1934, as amended, (Act or Communications Act) and the
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, the Commission adopts a
regulatory fee schedule for fiscal year (FY) 2026 to assess and collect
$416,112,000, which is an amount that reasonably can be expected to
total the Commission's FY 2026 salaries and expenses (S&E)
appropriation. By statute, the Commission must collect these regulatory
fees by the end of September.
2. In April, the Commission proposed a regulatory fee schedule for
FY 2026. Consistent with the Commission's longstanding regulatory fee
methodology and the record gathered, the Commission adopts most of the
proposals in the FY 2026 NPRM, 91 FR 25268, May 8, 2026, to increase
the number of full time equivalents (FTEs) allocated directly to the
core licensing bureaus for FY 2026. In particular, the Commission
adopts the proposals to reallocate 61 FTEs from the Office of General
Counsel, the Office of Economics and Analytics, and the Public Safety
and Homeland Security Bureau as direct FTEs to the Commission's core
licensing bureaus because the work of those FTEs is sufficiently linked
to the oversight and regulation of regulatory fee payors such that the
burden of that work should be considered in applying the Commission
regulatory fee methodology. But, after careful review, the Commission
declines to adopt the FY 2026 NPRM proposal to subtract two FTEs from
the Media Bureau's direct allocation and also concludes it is
appropriate to reallocate one additional FTE from the Office of General
Counsel as direct to the Media Bureau. The Commission will, however,
continue to treat all FTEs in the Office of Engineering and Technology,
Enforcement Bureau, and Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau as
indirect. The Commission also adopts its proposal for the calculation
of television broadcaster regulatory fees, as adjusted, and where
appropriate, adjusts its appendices in response to company- and
industry-specific facts put forward by certain commenters. The
Commission implements these determinations and adopts a schedule of
regulatory fees, as set forth in Tables 3 and 4.
3. Finally, the Commission declines to adopt any of the commenters'
various proposals to depart from its well-established assessment
methodology to lessen fees for regulatees in certain industry sectors,
which would unfairly shift the burden of regulatory fees to other fee
payors, or to implement new fee categories that were largely considered
and rejected by the Commission as recently as last year, particularly
since commenters have provided no basis to change the Commission's
prior determinations. The Commission does not alter the data source
used for assessing regulatory fees on Commercial Mobile Radio Service
(CMRS) providers, and the Commission also declines to change the de
minimis threshold of $1,000.
II. Background
4. FY 2026 started on October 1, 2025, and ends on September 30,
2026. The regulatory fee collection is guided by both the statutory
authority in sections 6 and 9 of the Act and the explicit language of
each fiscal year's S&E appropriation directing the amount to be
collected as an offsetting collection. Pursuant to Section 9 of the Act
and the Commission's FY 2026 S&E appropriation, the Commission is
required to collect $416,112,000, in regulatory fees. The Act requires
the Commission to assess and collect regulatory fees to recover the
costs of carrying out its activities in the total amounts provided for
in Appropriations Act. Regulatory fees must therefore cover the
Commission's non-auctions direct, indirect, and support costs,
including costs to cover statutorily required tasks that do not
directly equate with oversight and regulation of a particular fee
payor, but instead benefit the Commission and the industry as a whole.
Direct costs are those such as salaries and expenses; indirect costs
are those such as overhead functions, and support costs
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include those such as rent, utilities, and equipment. Since regulatory
fees must recover the total amount of the Commission's S&E
appropriation for the fiscal year, they also must cover the costs
incurred in oversight and regulation of: (1) entities that are
statutorily exempt from paying regulatory fees; (2) entities whose
total assessed annual regulatory fees fall below the annual de minimis
threshold; and (3) entities whose regulatory fees are waived. The
Commission has previously observed that it is consistent with the Act
to include those costs that are attributable to the fee paying and
exempt regulatees in the revenue requirement because all of the
regulatees in that fee category, whether they pay regulatory fees or
not, benefit from the oversight and regulation of that bureau. The
Commission's annual de minimis threshold remains at $1,000. The
Commission takes into consideration the relatively small amount of
waivers, exemptions, and non-payors in the Commission calculations each
year so that it can recover the full amount of the Commission S&E
appropriation. The Commission has no discretion regarding the amount of
fees to be collected in any given fiscal year.
5. Congress has prescribed a method for the Commission to collect
the full S&E appropriation by keying the Commission's regulatory fee
assessment to its FTE burden. One FTE, a ``Full Time Equivalent'' or
``Full Time Employee,'' is a unit of measure equal to the work
performed annually by a full-time person (working a 40-hr work week for
a full year) assigned to the particular job, and subject to agency
personnel staffing limitations established by the U.S. Office of
Management and Budget. In this proceeding, if the Commission states 1.5
FTEs work on a particular subject matter, that might mean three
individuals spend 50% of their time on that area. Moreover, in the FY
2026 Regulatory Fees Report and Order, when the Commission discusses
FTEs and any change in allocation, it is solely for regulatory fee
purposes and does not reflect proposals for the change of personnel in
the various organizational work units. The methodology for assessing
regulatory fees must ``reflect the full-time equivalent number of
employees within the bureaus and offices of the Commission, adjusted to
take into account factors that are reasonably related to the benefits
provided to the payor of the fee by the Commission's activities.''
Thus, the fee assigned to each regulatory fee category relates to the
FTE burden associated with oversight and regulation of each regulatory
fee category by the relevant core bureaus (i.e., the Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau, the Media Bureau, most of the Wireline
Competition Bureau, part of the Office of International Affairs, and
most of the Space Bureau). The Commission has previously concluded that
allocating the work of FTEs in the Wireline Competition Bureau devoted
to non-high-cost Universal Service Fund programs as indirect FTEs is
consistent with how FTEs working for programs that benefit consumers
and the American public are treated elsewhere in the Commission.
Moreover, in the non-high-cost universal service fund programs, the E-
Rate, Lifeline, and Rural Healthcare programs tie funding eligibility
to the beneficiary, i.e., a school, a library, a low-income individual
or family, or a rural healthcare provider and not to Commission
regulatory fee payors. Thus, the burden of FTE time devoted to non-
high-cost Universal Service Fund programs is properly categorized as
indirect. As part of this determination, the Commission has also
excluded broadcasters from the fee burden associated with these
indirect FTEs because broadcasters do not directly participate in the
universal service program. Thus, in its annual analysis of FTE time,
after deducting the burden of this indirect FTE work from the
calculation of the direct FTEs allocated to the Wireline Competition
Bureau, the Commission apportions these FTEs as indirect among all fee
payors except broadcasters. The Commission has also explained that most
of the work of the Office of International Affairs, including the work
of the Global Strategies and Negotiation Division, does not benefit a
specific fee payor, but rather the government as a whole, and is
therefore appropriately categorized as indirect. However, the
Commission continues to categorize as direct the FTE work of the Office
of International Affairs concerning international bearer circuit
issues, including the services provided over submarine cables,
determining that there are eight FTEs within the Office of
International Affairs whose work was direct on that basis.
6. The total amount of the offsetting collection generally changes
each fiscal year. Therefore, the regulatory fees due from fee payors
also typically change as a mathematical consequence of the total amount
that needs to be collected, the number of FTEs, and the projected unit
estimates for each regulatory fee category. For example, if the number
of units in a regulatory fee category increase, the amount due per unit
may decrease, depending on other factors. This would also include
proportionate increases in a given fee category to reflect an overall
increase in the annual FY appropriation. Insofar as the Communication
Act's explicit language requires that fees must reflect FTEs, the
Commission has consistently concluded that FTE counts are the most
administrable starting point for regulatory fee allocations, and the
Commission regulatory fees are based on the direct FTEs in core
bureaus. Thus, when considering changes, additions, or deletions to the
regulatory fee schedule, the Commission focus on the direct FTE cost
burden related to the regulatory fee category at issue within each of
the core licensing bureaus.
7. FTEs are not assigned within a bureau to specific fee categories
``by rote or at random, but rather in a manner that reflects the time
spent by FTEs on a regulatory fee category, which is in itself a
reflection of `benefit' to the fee category.'' The Commission
apportions regulatory fees across fee categories based on the number of
direct FTEs in each core bureau to take into account factors that are
reasonably related to the payors' benefits. The Commission has stated
that Section 9 of the Act is clear, however, that regulatory fee
assessments are based on the burden imposed on the Commission, not
benefits realized by regulatees. The Commission apportions regulatory
fees across fee categories based on the number of direct FTEs in each
core bureau to take into account factors that are reasonably related to
the payors' benefits. Any decrease to the fees paid by one category of
regulatory fee payors necessitates an increase in fees paid by other
categories of regulatory fee payors, which means the collection of the
Commission's regulatory fees is a zero-sum exercise.
8. The Commission allocates FTEs according to the nature of the
work performed by its different organizational units. If FTE work
directly relates to the oversight and regulation of a regulatory fee
category in one of the five core licensing bureaus then it is
considered to be direct. Work that cannot be allocated to one of those
regulatory fee categories is counted as indirect FTE time.
9. Indirect FTE time covers a wide range of issues that include
services that are not specifically correlated with one core bureau, let
alone one specific category of regulatory fee payors. Indirect FTE work
also includes matters that are not specific to any regulatory fee
category, and many Commission attorneys, economists, engineers,
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analysts, and other staff perform work during a single fiscal year,
which generally benefits the telecommunications industry and the public
as opposed to matters that are specific to any regulatory fee category.
The Commission has categorized FTE work conducted in the Enforcement,
Consumer and Governmental Affairs, and Public Safety and Homeland
Security Bureaus along with some of the work in the Wireline
Competition Bureau, the Space Bureau, and the Office of International
Affairs as well as the work of those in the Office of the Chair and the
Commissioners' Offices and in the Offices of the Managing Director,
General Counsel, Inspector General, Communications Business
Opportunities, Engineering and Technology, Legislative Affairs,
Workplace Diversity, Media Relations, Economics and Analytics, and
Administrative Law Judges as indirect for regulatory fee purposes.
10. Following this framework, the Commission assesses the
allocation of FTEs to regulatory fee payors by first determining the
number of direct non-auctions FTEs in each of the Commission's core
bureaus. Other factors the Commission takes into consideration include
the annual S&E appropriation and the projected unit estimates. Early in
each fiscal year, the Human Resources Management office identifies FTEs
at the core bureau level. The Commission then validates that data
through consultation with the bureaus and offices to determine the
number of direct FTEs allocated to each of the five core bureaus. Those
numbers are then used to calculate the corresponding percentage of the
total amount of regulatory fees to be collected for a given fiscal year
from the fee payors of each core bureau. The percentage for each core
bureau is the number of direct non-auction FTEs within the core bureau
divided by the total number of direct non-auction FTEs in the
Commission.
11. This means fees are apportioned across the regulatory fee
categories based on the number of direct FTEs in each core bureau whose
time is focused on a particular industry segment and are adjusted ``to
take into account factors that are reasonably related to the benefits
provided to the payor of the fee by the Commission's activities.''
Specifically, the Commission allocates appropriated amounts to be
recovered proportionally based on the number of direct FTEs within each
core bureau. Those proportions are then subdivided and apportioned
within each core bureau into fee categories among those served based on
the time spent on each fee category. Finally, within each regulatory
fee category, the amount to be collected is divided by a unit count
that allocates the regulatory fee payor's proportionate share based on
an objective measure. As a general matter, there is no additional
calculation to attribute indirect costs.
12. The FTE time devoted to developing and implementing the
Commission's spectrum auctions is not included in the calculation of
regulatory fees and is not offset by the collection of regulatory fees.
Thus, the Commission's methodology excludes all spectrum auction-
related FTEs and their overhead from the regulatory fee calculations.
To the extent that FTEs within the core bureaus spend a portion of
their time on auctions issues and a portion of their time on other
issues, their time is split and only the non-auctions portion of their
time is reflected in the relevant core bureau's direct FTE count.
13. In order to collect regulatory fees in the amount required by
the Commission annual S&E appropriation, the Commission conducts a
rulemaking proceeding each year to consider any necessary increases or
decreases in the number of units subject to the payment of such fees
and to reflect any adjustments needed to the prior year's fees
schedule. For example, if the number of units in a regulatory fee
category increases, the amount due per unit may decrease. This would
also include proportionate increases in a given fee category to reflect
an overall increase in the annual FY appropriation. Such changes are
rarely the subject of dispute and are usually addressed in the more
ministerial changes to the fee schedule. As necessary, the Commission
will also propose amendments to the fee schedule ``if it determines
that changes are necessary for the fees to reflect the full-time
equivalent number of employees within the bureaus and offices of the
Commission, adjusted to take into account factors that are reasonably
related to the benefits provided to the payor of the fee by the
Commission's activities.'' Pursuant to the Act, the Commission must
notify Congress immediately upon adoption of any adjustment. The Act
also requires the Commission to notify Congress at least 90 days prior
to making effective any amendments to the regulatory fee schedule.
14. The Commission considers the adoption of a new regulatory fee
category or a change in an existing regulatory fee category only when
it develops a sufficient basis for making the change, ensuring that the
Commission assessment of regulatory fees is fair, administrable, and
sustainable. The Commission will adopt new regulatory fee categories
and new methodologies for calculating regulatory fees when there is a
sufficient basis for doing so based on the record, and under the
relevant statutory provisions and precedent.
III. Discussion
15. The Commission received 12 comments and four reply comments in
response to the Commission's FY 2026 NPRM. As generally supported by
the record, the Commission adopts the Commission's proposals in the FY
2026 NPRM to reallocate 61 FTEs from the Office of General Counsel, the
Office of Economics and Analytics, and the Public Safety and Homeland
Security Bureau as direct FTEs to the Commission's core licensing
bureaus. The Commission bases these reallocations on its determination
with reasonable certainty for the fiscal year 2026 that the work of
those FTEs is sufficiently linked to the oversight and regulation of
regulatory fee payors such that the burden of that work should be
considered in applying the Commission regulatory fee methodology. After
further review, and based on those same determinations, the Commission
also declines to adopt the FY 2026 NPRM proposal to reallocate two
direct FTEs from Media Bureau as indirect and concludes it is
appropriate to reallocate one additional FTE from the Office of General
Counsel as direct to the Media Bureau.
16. Additionally, the Commission adopts its proposal to continue to
calculate television broadcaster regulatory fees using the Commission's
methodology of population-based full-service broadcast television
regulatory fees. Furthermore, the Commission will continue using
Numbering Resource Utilization Forecast (NRUF) assigned number data as
the basis for assessing regulatory fees on Commercial Mobile Radio
Service (CMRS) providers. The Commission also adjusts its tables in
response to company- and industry-specific facts put forward by certain
commenters. Finally, the Commission will continue to utilize a $1,000
de minimis threshold because it concludes the Commission's average cost
of collections do not exceed that amount.
17. Consistent with the Commission's past practice, however, the
Commission declines to reallocate other FTE work performed in the non-
core bureaus, and the Commission concludes such work is appropriately
considered to be indirect. Moreover, commenters have presented no new
arguments for the Commission consideration to support their
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suggestions to adopt new fee categories, and the Commission therefore
reaffirms its repeated conclusion that additional proposed fee
categories are not workable or logistically feasible at this time. The
Commission will also continue its current approach to assessing space
and earth station regulatory fees until the newly adopted Part 100
rules become effective and replace the existing rules governing
satellite communications contained in Part 25, and until the Commission
has had an opportunity to seek notice and comment on how those rules
should be considered in applying its regulatory fee methodology.
18. Accordingly, using the Commission's historical methodology for
allocating FTEs, the Commission adopts a regulatory fee schedule for FY
2026 as set forth in Tables 3 and 4 to assess and collect $416,112,000,
which is an amount that reasonably can be expected to total the
Commission's annual S&E FY 2026 appropriation.
A. Assessment of Regulatory Fees
1. Methodology for Assessing Regulatory Fees
19. Section 9 of the Communications Act requires the Commission to
set regulatory fees to ``reflect the full-time equivalent number of
employees within the bureaus and offices of the Commission adjusted to
take into account factors that are reasonably related to the benefits
provided to the payor of the fee by the Commission's activities.'' As a
general matter, the Commission's methodology to establish its
regulatory fee schedule is to first identify changes from the prior
fiscal year regulatory fee proceeding, e.g., changes in the (i) FY S&E
appropriation, (ii) FTE levels, and (iii) relevant unit measures for
each regulatory fee category. After that, the Commission identifies the
number of direct non-auction FTEs in each core bureau for purposes of
the regulatory fee calculation. The remaining non-auction FTEs are
considered indirect and are not part of the regulatory fee calculation.
Once the Commission determines the number of direct FTEs for each core
bureau, the Commission calculates the percentage of regulatory fees
that it will need to collect for the given fiscal year from each
regulatory fee category within each core bureau. These proportional
calculations allocate all Commission non-auction related costs across
all regulatory fee categories.
2. FTE Allocations
20. For FY 2026, the Commission implements the same methodology
that the Commission has historically used to allocate FTEs. To conduct
its annual review of regulatory fees for FY 2026, the Commission began
by evaluating the work being performed by Commission FTEs. According to
information provided by the Commission's Human Resources Management
office, at the start of FY 2026, there were 317.5 direct non-auctions
FTEs distributed among the core licensing bureaus. With respect to
other bureaus and offices within the Commission, staff next conducted a
high-level, yet comprehensive, analysis of the work being performed by
non-auctions FTEs in the Office of Economics and Analytics, Office of
General Counsel, and the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau as
well as the Office of Engineering and Technology, the Enforcement
Bureau, and the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (and other
bureaus and offices) in order to determine whether with reasonable
certainty for the fiscal year 2026 any identifiable time of the FTEs in
those organizational units is directly related to the oversight and
regulation of fee payors such that it should be considered in applying
the Commission's fee methodology. In other words, the Commission
examined and validated the FTE data through consultation with the
bureaus and offices to determine whether in applying the Commission's
regulatory fee methodology any FTE time in the non-core bureaus and
offices should be considered to be reallocated as direct FTE time to a
core bureau.
3. Adjustments of Reallocations of Certain Indirect FTEs as Direct FTEs
21. Although the Commission continues to conclude that much of the
work of the FTEs in the Office of Economics and Analytics, the Office
of General Counsel, and the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
is appropriately considered indirect, in validating the FTE count for
FY 2026, it again finds the data support a conclusion that there is
measurable FTE time devoted to work that is sufficiently linked to the
oversight and regulation of regulatory fee payors such that the burden
of that work should be allocated as direct to a core bureau for
regulatory fee purposes. Moreover, commenters generally support the
Commission's efforts to ensure that regulatory fees reflect the work
performed by Commission FTEs that benefits fee payors. Likewise, no
commenter objects to the Commission's proposed reallocations from
Office of Economics and Analytics, the Office of General Counsel, and
the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau. The Commission
therefore adopts most of its proposals to reallocate 61 FTEs from the
Office of Economics and Analytics, the Office of General Counsel, and
the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau as direct FTEs to core
bureaus because the nature of their work has been determined to be
primarily related to the oversight and regulation of fee payors. With
respect to the Office of General Counsel, however, the Commission
concludes that one additional FTE should be allocated as direct.
Additionally, the Commission declines to adopt the FY 2026 NPRM
proposal to reallocate two direct FTEs from Media Bureau as indirect.
These reallocations result in an increase of 62 FTEs being reallocated
as direct FTEs to core bureaus.
22. In the FY 2026 NPRM, the Commission proposed to reallocate two
FTEs as indirect from the Media Bureau because such FTE work is devoted
to enforcement responsibilities. The Commission's proposal was based on
a rationale first articulated in 2023. This rationale, however,
acknowledged that the enforcement actions taken by the Media Bureau are
associated with the Bureau's administration of the licensing programs
for television and radio, rather than from an enforcement
investigation. On review, the Commission finds that this work directly
benefits the Media Bureau fee payors. As a result, reallocation of such
FTE time as indirect would not be consistent with the statute nor with
the Commission's overarching goals that its regulatory framework is
fair, administrable, and sustainable. Furthermore, in reviewing the
Commission's FTE allocations, it was presented with the fact that the
Media Bureau has experienced staff reductions that required changes in
work priorities which in turn made the measurement of this work to a
degree of accuracy extremely difficult. That conclusion coupled with a
fresh look at the nature of the work lead to the conclusion that the
Commission lacks a basis for making the reallocation. Therefore, the
Commission declines to adopt its proposal.
23. Additionally, because the amount of work of FTEs in the Office
of General Counsel devoted to Media Bureau matters has increased in
this fiscal year, the Commission reallocates an additional FTE to the
Media Bureau as direct for this fiscal year. The Commission believes
that this adjustment is fully consistent with its longstanding
methodology, while offering a more precise and thus more equitable
assessment of fees. Although the Commission makes this adjustment based
on staff validation of the data regarding FTE utilization, it notes
that it
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is in accordance with the State Broadcasters Associations' ``urg[ing]
the Commission to conduct even more searching reviews of indirect FTE
work going forward.''
24. Specifically, for FY 2026, the Commission reallocates 31 FTEs
from the Office of Economics and Analytics as direct to a core bureau
for regulatory fee purposes as follows: three to the Space Bureau, one
to the Office of International Affairs, eight to the Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau, 17 to the Wireline Competition Bureau, and
two to the Media Bureau. Similarly, as explained above, the Commission
reallocates four FTEs from the Office of General Counsel as direct FTEs
to a core bureaus as follows: one to the Wireline Competition Bureau,
one to the Space Bureau, and two to the Media Bureau. Likewise, the
Commission reallocates 27 FTEs in the Public Safety and Homeland
Security Bureau as direct to a core bureau as follows: 13 to the
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, eight to the Wireline Competition
Bureau, and six to the Media Bureau.
25. The Commission bases these reallocations on staff's validation
of the data and an analysis similar to the last three fiscal years
evaluating whether measurable FTE time is primarily being spent on the
regulation and oversight of regulatory fee payors such that it should
be considered as direct to a core bureau. As the Commission has
previously explained, in discussing FTEs, it is not referring to any
particular employee at the Commission but rather an amount of work
performed annually by a full time employee or employees. In analyzing
the work of FTEs, the Commission's staff applies conservative estimates
so as not to imply a false sense of precision in the reallocations.
Specifically, where the amount of work under consideration for
reallocation of an indirect FTE is half an FTE or less, the Commission
rounds down, and it only implements reallocations in full FTE
increments.
26. As represented below, FTE time associated with these
reallocations is added to the direct FTE totals of the relevant core
bureau. In other words, these reallocations increase the number of
direct FTEs in a core bureau and reduce the total number of indirect
FTEs within the Commission. Because the Commission's underlying
methodology for calculating regulatory fees remains unchanged, it
concludes that its regulatory fee calculation continues to be
consistent with section 9 of the Communications Act, which requires the
Commission to base its methodology on the number of FTEs.
27. Table 1 below shows the percentage of regulatory fees allocated
to each core bureau based on the reallocation of a net increase of 62
FTEs as direct to a core bureau. These reallocations result in a 19.53%
increase in the Commission overall direct FTE count for the fiscal
year. These reallocations are proportionally distributed within the
core bureau and are reflected in Tables 3 and 4, which are based on the
Commission's existing methodology and incorporate these reallocations.
Table 1--Core Bureau Direct FTEs and Percentages for FY 2025 and FY 2026 With Reallocations of Indirect FTEs
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Total # of direct Total # of direct Total # of direct
FY 2025 FTEs with FY 2025% after FY 2026 FTEs FY 2026 FTEs with FY 2026% after
Core bureau/office FY 2025 FTE reallocations FTE reallocation without FTE FY 2026 FTE reallocations proposed FTE proposed
reallocations reallocations reallocations reallocations
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Office of International Affairs 0.......................... 8 1.80 8 +1 from OEA............... 9 2.38
(Submarine Cable and International +0 from OGC...............
Bearer Circuits). Total additional FTEs +1..
Space Bureau (Space and Earth Stations). +1 from OEA................ 51 11.50 44 +3 from OEA............... 48 12.70
+1 from OGC................ +1 from OGC...............
Total additional FTEs +2... Total additional FTEs +4..
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau...... +8 from OEA................ 120 27.06 81 +8 from OEA............... 102 26.99
+1 from OGC................ +0 from OGC...............
+14 from PSHSB............. +13 from PSHSB............
Total additional FTEs +23.. Total additional FTEs +21.
Wireline Competition Bureau............. +13 from OEA............... 132.5 29.88 81.5 +17 from OEA.............. 107.5 28.45
+1 from OGC................ +1 from OGC...............
+9 from PSHSB.............. +8 from PSHSB.............
Total additional FTEs +23.. Total additional FTEs +26.
Media Bureau............................ +7 from OEA................ 134 29.76 103 +2 from OEA............... 113 29.48
+1 from OGC................ +2 from OGC...............
+7 from PSHSB.............. +6 from PSHSB.............
-2 from MB Reallocated as Total additional FTEs +10.
Indirect.
Total additional FTEs +13..
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Total............................... 61......................... 445.50 100 317.50 62........................ 379.50 100
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28. As reflected in Table 1 above, based on these reallocations and
after adjustments are made to the direct FTE counts to implement
Commission precedent, the Commission has a total of 379.5 non-auctions
direct FTEs for FY 2026. Accordingly, as shown in Table 2 below, the
Commission will collect approximately $9.909 million (2.38%) in fees
from the Office of International Affairs regulatory fee payors; $52.851
million (12.70%) in fees from the Space Bureau regulatory fee payors;
$112.308 million (26.99%) in fees from Wireless Telecommunications
Bureau regulatory fee payors; $118.363 million (28.45%) in fees from
Wireline Competition Bureau regulatory fee payors; and
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$122.681 million (29.48%) in fees from Media Bureau regulatory fee
payors.
Table 2--Core Bureau FTE Percentages and Amounts for FY 2025 and FY 2026 With FTE Reallocation Adjustments
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FY 2025 amount FY 2026 amount
with FTE with FTE
reallocations reallocations
FY 2025 FTE % with (millions) FY 2026 FTE % with (millions)
Core bureau FTE reallocations -------------------- adjusted FTE -------------------
FY 2025 reallocations FY 2026
Appropriation was Appropriation is
$390.192 $416.112
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Wireline Bureau................. 29.88............. $116.580.......... 28.45............. $118.363
Media Bureau.................... 29.76............. 116.119........... 29.48............. 122.681
Media Bureau; subcategory 13.14............. 51.286............ 13.04............. 54.263
Broadcasters.
Media Bureau; subcategory Cable. 16.62............. 64.833............ 16.44............. 68.418
Wireless Bureau................. 27.06............. 105.582........... 26.99............. 112.308
Office of International Affairs. 1.80.............. 7.039............. 2.38.............. 9.909
Space Bureau.................... 11.50............. 44.872............ 12.70............. 52.851
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29. The Commission rejects requests to adjust its FTE analysis
solely to benefit one category of regulatory fee payors and shift the
fee burden to the other categories in the absence of reliable data upon
which to base such a change. In particular, Kepler and SES express
concern about the increase in fees from FY 2025 for regulatees of the
Space Bureau and ask the Commission ``to place a moratorium on
increasing the FY 2026 fees relative to those collected for FY 2025''
or to ``buffer increases'' of the fees. Similarly, SCC and NASCA assert
that the fee increase for regulatees of the Office of International
Affairs is excessive and propose that the Commission ``reduce the
proposed submarine cable fees to a level commensurate with economic
reality and the statutory boundaries the Commission must abide by'' or
``cap any increase at no more than 10 percent for FY 2026, with the
revenue requirement in excess of the amount represented by the cap
treated as the equivalent of indirect FTEs.'' Furthermore, NAB contends
that the Commission should reduce the fee burden for earth stations by
capping their fees to no more than $2,500 per earth station license,
contending that such a result would be fair because broadcasters pay
earth station regulatory fees in addition to the fees assessed for
their broadcasting licenses, which unfairly compounds the financial
burden on broadcasters. NAB recommends that the Commission shift the
burden to other Space Bureau regulatory fee payors, namely NGSO
satellite operators.
30. Although the Commission is mindful of concerns raised by these
commenters that its regulatory fees need to be predictable and not
prone to excessive fluctuation, requests for special accommodation are
not consistent with the Commission's statutory obligation to collect
the its entire appropriation this fiscal year. Such requests, as the
Commission has previously explained, are in essence requests to shift
fees from one category of regulatory fee payors to other regulatory fee
payors based not on the relative FTE burden, but on policy rationales.
In FY 2024 in the context of rejecting similar requests, the Commission
explained and distinguished adjustments undertaken over a decade before
that were necessary to address validation flaws identified by GAO.
Specifically, in 2012, GAO reported that the Commission used FTE data
that was 13 years out of date. In 2013, the Commission implemented a
``multi-year program of reform'' agency-wide ``correcting the
extraordinary error on the Commission's part in applying a stale FTE
count.'' Commenters' requests for accommodations in this fiscal year
are therefore not analogous to that situation. Instead, here, as the
Commission explained in detail above, the FTE counts are validated
annually and the regulatory fee increases for FY 2026 are due to the
roughly 6.6% increase in its overall fiscal year 2026 appropriation,
changes in the direct FTEs working on space and earth station matters
and submarine cable matters, and/or changes in the units of measure for
these fee categories. Thus, the FY 2026 regulatory fee increase is
attributable directly to the requirements of following the Commission
statutory methodology--which include the benefit of oversight and
regulation of its regulatory fee payors as measured by FTE levels. NAB
itself recognizes that the increase in fees for earth station fee
payors is a function of the Commission's methodology and the fact that
the number of earth stations decreased while the percentage of the
Commission's appropriation attributable to the Space Bureau increased.
31. As the Commission observed the last time it was asked to
implement such measures, ``because [the Commission] must collect the
full amount of the appropriation as an offsetting collection,
decreasing the fee on any one category must be offset with an increased
collection in another category.'' Section 9 of the Act prescribes a
method of collecting an amount equal to the full S&E appropriation by
keying the regulatory fee assessment to the Commission's FTE burden. As
a result, the fee assigned to each regulatory fee category relates to
the FTE burden associated with oversight and regulation of each
regulatory fee category by the relevant core bureaus. Section 9 does
not provide any other basis for assessing regulatory fees or any basis
for capping fees for a particular fiscal year, or phasing in increases
in fees over several fiscal years, for a particular category or
categories of fee payors. The Commission therefore declines to
implement commenters' suggestions in circumstances such as these where
regulatory fees are based on direct FTEs to a core bureau, are
consistent with its statutory congressional direction under section 9
of the Communications Act, and no other special extenuating
circumstances for consideration exist.
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4. Other FTEs of the Non-Core Bureaus and Offices Remain Indirect
32. After analyzing the data for FY 2026 as well as the record in
this proceeding, the Commission affirms the its prior conclusion that
the majority of FTE work being performed in the non-core bureaus and
offices should be categorized as indirect because it benefits the
Commission and the entire telecommunications industry generally and
does not specifically focus on regulatory fee payors. The Commission
reaches this conclusion based on both the staff's high level review of
the work of FTEs in the non-core bureaus and offices and because no
commenter provided any insight into its questions in the FY 2026 NPRM
whether there had been any significant developments in the
communications industry, changes in law, and/or substantial shifts in
Commission policy and workload over the past year that demonstrates
measurable FTE work is being performed in these organizational units
that directly benefits a specific category of fee payors. Notably, no
commenter provided any examples of changes in the specific work
performed by Commission staff that would necessitate a reevaluation of
the Commission's repeated determination that the work being performed
by these FTEs is indirect. Instead, commenters advocating for
additional reallocations of FTEs from the non-core bureaus and offices
simply repeat the same reasons that the Commission has previously
rejected.
33. NAB's contention that the Commission should reallocate FTEs in
non-core bureaus as direct even when those FTEs work on matters that
also pertain to non-fee payors fails to consider the Commission's
repeated explanation that it takes a conservative approach to analyzing
the workload of its FTEs and only reallocates an FTE as direct where
the amount of work under consideration is more than half of an FTE.
NAB's conclusory statements without any analysis do not warrant further
examination by the Commission. In sum, NAB offers no reasons why the
Commission should expand its methodology to include FTEs that work
primarily on matters that pertain to non-fee payors and provides no
solutions regarding how to do so.
34. NAB also renews its criticism of the Commission's well-
established decision to treat FTEs working on non-high cost universal
service fund issues, but fails to dispute the Commission's long-held
conclusion that such treatment is consistent with how it treats FTEs
working for programs that benefit consumers and the American public
elsewhere in the Commission. Likewise, NAB's repetition of its 2022
comments arguing that the Commission should not include broadcasters in
the allocation of FTEs associated with the Commission's broadband data
mapping work under the Broadband DATA Act offers no new reasoning other
than NAB's continued disagreement with the Commission's decision that
the unique change in its methodology in 2021 to exclude Media Services
licensees from their share in such costs was based on the one-time
nature of a congressional earmark and had nothing to do with the
Commission making a finding that ``any group of regulatees do not
benefit from broadband-related activities.''
35. Finally, the Commission disagrees with NAB's more general
complaint that its FTE allocations are ``opaque.'' While NAB applauds
the Commission's continued efforts to modernize its regulatory fee
methodology, it nonetheless maintains that commenters are unable to
participate in the Commission's reallocation decisions. Contrary to
NAB's criticism, however, the Commission has made clear how commenters
can contribute to the Commission's assessment of annual regulatory fees
and the basis for why the Commission may reallocate an FTE as direct to
a core bureau. In particular, the Commission specifically invites
commenters, as it did again this year, ``to offer any new or current
reasons why the Commission should reexamine the nature of the work
being performed by FTEs in its non-core bureaus and offices'' and seeks
specific input in the record regarding whether there have been ``any
significant developments in the communications industry, changes in
law, and/or substantial shifts in Commission policy and workload over
the past year'' that reflect measurable FTE work being performed in the
non-core bureaus and offices that may not have been considered.
36. Moreover, the claim that without more transparency, commenters
cannot offer contributions that will impact the regulatory fee
assessment process does not withstand scrutiny. Indeed, the State
Broadcasters Associations' assertion ``that the Commission imposes
conditions upon commenters that cannot be met'' is belied by its own
reference to past instances where its comments affected the
Commission's allocations of FTEs. At the same time the State
Broadcasters Associations complain that the Commission ``demands that
outside commenters bring evidence to it that they simply do not possess
and will not possess unless it is provided to them by the Commission,''
they trumpet their success in 2021 convincing the Commission to adjust
its proposed FTE allocations due to the congressional earmark for the
Broadband Data Act.
37. As previously noted, the Commission strives to make the
regulatory fee process, including the reallocations of FTEs in its
methodology, fair, sustainable, and administrable. The delegated
authority of the Commission's bureau and offices is well understood and
documented, the regulatory work of these organizational units is both
public and easily reviewed, and the Commission includes significant
information about its performance, budgets, and policy objectives in
the information it releases to satisfy numerous reporting requirements.
Thus, commenters have access to both resources and data to challenge
the Commission's FTE allocations. Rather than stepping into the
Commission's shoes to evaluate the Commission's analysis of its own FTE
data, commenters can contribute to the process by offering responses to
the questions posed in the NPRM and evaluating issues the Commission
should factor into its reallocation considerations. In this regard, the
Commission finds it notable that no commenter offered any insight into
new or current reasons to reevaluate its FY 2026 NPRM FTE reallocation
proposals. Nevertheless, as a routine part of its annual proceeding,
the Commission makes any necessary adjustments to its proposals to
ensure that the final fiscal year FTE reallocations reflect, as
accurately as possible, the work being done for the benefit of fee
payors.
38. In sum, the Commission concludes that NAB's and the State
Broadcasters Associations' general requests to have more information
from the Commission regarding the Commission's FTE data seeks to impose
a level of precision on the Commission's reallocation process that does
not align with the Commission's methodology. Each year in proposing FTE
reallocations from indirect to direct, the Commission has provided
notice of what organizational unit the FTE burden is being reallocated
to and from. Moreover, commenters have historical and detailed insight
into the type of measurable FTE work the Commission has found warranted
the reallocation of FTEs as direct to a core bureau. The Commission
therefore concludes, as it has in the past, that amending its
methodology to include ``added granularity'' to its process like NAB
and the State Broadcasters Associations request would not ``change the
overall result, or improve the Commission's
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regulatory fee methodology, but would simply consume more staff
resources and increase the indirect FTE time devoted to regulatory fee
administration.'' Instead, the Commission's analysis is ``most accurate
when we look at the work of a larger group such as a division, office,
or bureau, consistent with the language of section 9 of the Act to
ensure that `fees reflect the full-time equivalent number of employees
within the bureaus and offices of the Commission.' ''
39. The Commission also rejects the claims of commenters that it
must find ways to reduce the burden of indirect FTEs on fee payors that
are based on arguments that the Commission has previously, and
thoroughly, rejected. In particular, SES argues that the Commission
should create new fee categories for ``experimental licenses,
unlicensed use, and automated frequency coordination systems'' and even
goes so far as to suggest the Commission should designate the Office of
Engineering and Technology as a new core bureau--all without offering a
single new reason for the Commission to consider doing so. As the
Commission explicitly explained in the FY 2026 NPRM, commenters were
asked to provide ``detailed evidence of materially changed
circumstances, rather than reiterate[d] arguments that the Commission
has historically declined to adopt.'' Instead, SES along with its
supporting reply commenters--i.e., the State Broadcasters Associations
and One Ministries--either repeat or slightly recast old arguments and
fail to provide any material changed circumstances in support of their
arguments.
40. For example, the State Broadcasters Associations suggest that
the Commission should adopt a new fee category for equipment
certification labs because they contend such a category would be
``remarkably similar to the `holds an FCC-issued authorization'
criterion that has served as the basis for charging regulatory fees to
broadcasters and other legacy fee payors for the past several
decades.'' But, in making this argument, the State Broadcasters
Associations notably avoid the more apt comparison to equipment
authorizations--a category that the Commission has repeatedly declined
to adopt. It seems that having failed to convince the Commission that
equipment authorizations should be added to the regulatory fees
categories, the State Broadcasters Associations now try to convince us
that a regulatory fee should apply to the test labs that provide
equipment certifications to those seeking such authorizations from the
Commission. This would essentially backdoor the addition of equipment
authorizations to the regulatory fee categories as testing labs would
presumably pass those fees onto the manufacturers of the equipment they
certify. The State Broadcasters Associations provide no explanation for
why the Commission's reasoning in declining to adopt a fee category for
equipment authorizations is not equally applicable to laboratories that
perform measurements of equipment subject to an equipment authorization
(i.e., the State Broadcasters Associations' ``equipment certification
labs''). Although laboratories involved in the testing of equipment for
Certification under the equipment authorization rules are subject to
accreditation, recognition, and periodic reassessment, there is no
correlation between these steps and how many devices a testing
laboratory actually tests or, once those devices are certified by a
Telecommunications Certification Body, how many units are actually
produced. Moreover, the State Broadcasters Associations provide no
cognizable rationale why only testing laboratories and not the other
entities involved in the equipment authorization process (e.g., the
laboratory accreditation bodies that accredit a laboratory with a scope
covering the measurements required for the types of equipment that it
will test, and the Telecommunications Certification Bodies that are
authorized to issue Certifications) would be subject to a fee payor
classification, if such a classification were warranted for equipment
authorization-related activities. Thus, in neither instance would the
Commission be able to credit FTE resources to such issues.
41. Moreover, the State Broadcasters Associations do not address
the very minimal nature of the Commission's FTE work related to the
recognition process for laboratories that perform measurements of
equipment subject to an equipment authorization. Although the
Commission acknowledges that in establishing certain rules related to
these labs, some FTE time is devoted to adopting regulations that allow
such labs to perform their functions for certain Commission licensees
as well as other permittees, these efforts are limited and do not
result in the work of FTEs being sufficient to subsequently assess fees
year after year based on such a limited FTE burden. Furthermore, such
work represents only a subcomponent of the larger equipment
authorization workstream. For example, the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) and not the Commission manages the
process of test lab accrediting and designating Telecommunications
Certification Bodies in the U.S., whereas, the designation of third-
party certification bodies located outside the U.S. are a matter of bi-
lateral or multi-lateral international agreements, which would make
requiring such entities to pay regulatory fees an international policy
concern (were the Commission to find a basis to subject equipment
authorization activities to regulatory fees). The Commission adopts a
new regulatory fee category only when there is a sufficient legal and
factual basis to conclude that significant FTE time is used in the
oversight and regulation of a regulatee such that adoption of a fee
category and designation of fee would satisfy the requirements of
Section 9 of the Communications Act and the Commission's overarching
goals that its regulatory framework is fair, administrable, and
sustainable. Because the State Broadcasters Associations have not
offered a framework by which it could assess laboratories involved in
the testing of equipment for Certification with regulatory fees
consistent with the Commission's methodology and policy goals, the
Commission declines to do so.
42. One Ministries, which argues in a single sentence that the
Commission should consider virtual MVPD providers as equivalent to
cable service providers and assess them with the same regulatory fees,
likewise offers no support or basis for how to do so. Specifically,
this suggestion is provided without a factual or legal justification
for how the agency could do so within the Commission's statutory
authority and prior decision-making.
43. Additionally, because the Commission fully considered and
rejected the suggestion to convene ``stake holder roundtables'' in
2023, for the same reasons the previously articulated, the Commission
will not revisit the State Broadcasters Associations' suggestion to do
so in FY 2026. Although the Commission recognizes the incentives for
some commenters to continue to seek to expand the pool of entities
subject to the Commission's regulatory fee process, repeatedly offering
the same suggestions, without more factual or legal support for doing
so, does not improve the Commission's regulatory fee process or satisfy
the Commission's obligation to collect its full appropriation as
dictated by section 9 of the Act. On the other hand, the Commission is
encouraged by CTIA's agreement with the Commission's assessment that
the work of FTEs in the non-core bureaus and offices should remain
indirect as well as CTIA's
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observation that the Commission proposes reallocations only ``after
performing considerable analysis and finding the clearest case for
reassignment.''
44. As the Commission has explained for many years, the work of
FTEs in the Office of Engineering and Technology, the Enforcement
Bureau and the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau benefits the
agency as a whole and the American public, and not one particular group
of regulatory fee payors. In light of CTIA's support and in the absence
of evidence to depart from the Commission's previously articulated
reasons for treating its FTEs in the non-core bureau and offices, and
more specifically, the FTEs in the Office of Engineering and
Technology, Enforcement Bureau, and Consumer and Governmental Affairs
Bureau, as indirect, the Commission affirms its past conclusion that it
is not equitable for any one regulatory fee group of payors to shoulder
the FTE burden of such indirect work.
45. As part of the Commission's ongoing efforts to modernize the
assessment of regulatory fees, the Commission will continue its annual
evaluation of whether any FTEs in the non-core bureaus and offices
should be reallocated for regulatory fee purposes and exercise its
discretion regarding where to focus its analytical efforts each year to
best respond to changes in its substantive work and organization and
changes in the telecommunications industry itself. In so doing, the
Commission will look for additional ways in which it can ensure that it
conducts its annual review and analysis of the FTE data in a manner
that is fair, administrable, and sustainable.
B. Broadcast Television Stations
46. The Commission adopts its proposal, which was supported by NAB
in the record, to continue to assess fees for full-power broadcast
television stations based on the population covered by a full-service
broadcast television station's contour as the Commission has since
2020. The population-based methodology conforms with the service
authorized here--broadcasting television to the American people. The
Commission will also continue the Commission's use of 2020 U.S. Census
data to assess fees for full-power broadcast television stations, as
the Commission traditionally has over the last few years. The
population data for broadcasters' service areas are determined using
the TVStudy software and the Licensing and Management System (LMS)
database, based on a station's projected noise-limited service contour.
However, consistent with the Commission's decision in FY 2024, the
Commission will base assessments on limiting the population count of
full-power television stations that rely on satellite television
stations to reach terrain-limited areas in Puerto Rico. The Commission
adopts a factor of $.007090 per population served for the FY 2026 full-
power broadcast television station fee. The population data for each
licensee and the population-based fee (population multiplied by
$.007090 for each full-power broadcast television station) are listed
in Table 8.
C. CMRS and Mobile Services Assessments
47. The Commission concludes that it will continue to assess
regulatory fees for providers of CMRS and Mobile Services using a unit
measure methodology based on the count of ``assigned numbers'' reported
in providers' biannual Numbering Resource Utilization Forecast (NRUF)
filings.
48. CTIA was the only commenter to address the questions the
Commission posed in the FY 2026 NPRM regarding whether using a
different unit measure to apportion regulatory fees for CMRS providers
would better reflect the FTE burden of oversight of such fee payors.
CTIA correctly points out that the Commission has utilized NRUF data
since FY 2004 and cautions us to take more time to fully evaluate any
options before amending the Commission's methodology for assessing
regulatory fees for the CMRS fee category. CTIA further advises that
until the Commission determines whether and how it may change NRUF
reporting, ``it is unclear how NRUF data will compare to other data
sources for purposes of allocating regulatory fees among CMRS
providers.''
49. The Commission agrees with CTIA that the Commission should not
make any changes at this time. Given the lack of record support to
change the Commission's existing methodology, the Commission concludes
that NRUF assigned numbers data, which serve as a proxy for a
provider's subscriber count, remain a reliable reflection of the FTE
burden of the Commission's oversight of CMRS and mobile service
providers and continue to meet the Commission's goals that the
regulatory fee methodology is fair, sustainable, and administrable.
D. Space Station, Earth Station and Submarine Cable Assessments
50. The Commission also declines to act on the requests of
commenters to amend the Commission's methodology for assessing
regulatory fees in this fiscal year based on issues raised in the Space
Modernization proceeding. While the Commission appreciates that the
adoption of licensing decisions reached in Space Modernization
proceeding may necessitate the consideration of amendments to the
methodology for the Commission's annual assessment of regulatory fees,
the Commission concludes that none of the issues raised by commenters
in this current regulatory fee rulemaking are ripe for resolution in FY
2026 as those licensing decisions were not reached prior the release of
the FY 2026 NPRM. As the Commission just explained in denying
Kin[eacute]is's petition for reconsideration of the FY 2025 Report and
Order, ``[i]n plain terms, whether any of the proposed changes, if
adopted, will materially alter FTE resources devoted to the oversight
and regulation of space stations sufficient to merit the Commission
proposing changes to fee categories or methodologies is premature at
this time.'' Rather, as CSF observed, as the Commission implements
licensing changes adopted in the Space Modernization proceeding, the
Commission will consider how those changes may impact the category of
fee payors and the allocation of FTE benefits among fee categories in
the assessment of regulatory fees in FY 2027 and in future years.
51. For similar reasons, the Commission also declines the request
of NAB to reduce the regulatory fees on Transmit/Receive and Transmit
only earth stations and shift such burdens to non-GSO space station fee
payors because NAB claims those fee payors ``appear to be the focus of
the Space Bureau's priorities.'' While NAB makes an effort to support
its proposal for a fee reduction by generally pointing to the Space
Bureau's recent work associated with the Space Modernization
proceeding, it does not provide, nor does the record otherwise contain,
sufficient evidence to support a conclusion that the Commission should
shift FTEs from earth station payors to NGSO space station payors based
on FTE workloads benefitting one fee category over another in FY 2026.
As discussed above, the Commission will not implement fee reductions or
fee caps to mitigate fee increases that result from the Commission's
well-established fee assessment methodology. Additionally, as observed
above, changes adopted Space Modernization proceeding may necessitate a
comprehensive look at regulatory fees due to possible re-allocation of
FTEs as a result of those change becoming
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effective and any measurable changes in FTE utilization becomes
apparent. NAB would have the opportunity to provide input on this issue
as part of that proceeding.
52. The Commission does, however, make the necessary corrections to
its FY 2026 NPRM proposals where the record supports such actions. In
particular, NASCA asks us to revise the payment units for the submarine
cable system fee based on actual data reported in the annual circuit
capacity filings, rather than the projections the Commission used to
formulate its proposals in the FY 2026 NPRM. Given the limited time the
Commission has to initiate and conclude its annual regulatory fee
proceeding, for the NPRM, the Commission must rely on historical data
and projected trends to determine the unit count for submarine cables,
as well as a number of other fee categories. Following the release of
the NPRM, however, any new or updated data that are made available to
the Commission by stakeholders in the record or otherwise obtained or
updated by the Commission will become part of the Commission's analysis
of unit counts to be used in the assessment of regulatory fees in the
annual report and order. Making such adjustments during this process of
the rulemaking proceeding is consistent with the Commission's rules and
existing methodology, as outlined in Table 5. In accordance with the
Commission's standard process and based on the Commission's
verification of the additional information on circuit capacity data
provided by NASCA as well as an updated review of Commission data, the
Commission increases the unit count of submarine cables from 79 to 88,
thus reducing the per unit fee from what the Commission proposed in the
FY 2026 NPRM to $106,975.
53. Additionally, after review of the relevant Commission data and
consistent with comments from SES, Spire, and Eutelsat, the Commission
corrects Table 7 of the FY 2026 NPRM to more accurately reflect the
list of space station satellites that were authorized as of October 1,
2025, and subject to regulatory fees. SES proposed the addition of one
Geostationary Orbit U.S.-Licensed Space Station and the removal of
three Geostationary Orbit U.S.-Licensed Space Stations and two
Geostationary Orbit Non-U.S.-Licensed Space Stations with Market Access
Through Earth Stations. Spire proposed the removal of one Non-
Geostationary Orbit Small Constellation and the modification of a
second Non-Geostationary Orbit Small Constellation. Eutelsat proposed
the modification of one Non-Geostationary Large Constellation, which
reclassifies the remaining affected call sign to the Non-Geostationary
Small Constellation category. Consistent with the Commission's efforts
to adjust fee rates to reflect information about actual authorized
satellites as of October 1, 2025, which becomes available after the
release of a regulatory fee NPRM, the Commission concludes that such
modifications are appropriate.
E. De Minimis Threshold
54. Section 9(e)(2) of the Act permits the Commission to exempt a
party from paying regulatory fees if ``in the judgment of the
Commission, the cost of collecting a regulatory fee established under
this section from a party would exceed the amount collected from such
party.'' As explained below, after a careful review of the Commission's
costs for the collection of delinquent regulatory fees, the Commission
declines NAB's request to increase the de minimis threshold amount to
$1,200.
55. By statute, a determination to raise the de minimis threshold
for the payment of regulatory fees narrowly rests upon the Commission's
cost of collections. At the outset, the Commission notes that the
Commission's Debt Collection Improvement Act (DCIA) implementation,
including adoption of the red-light rule, minimizes regulatory fee
delinquent debt. In the limited circumstances where the Commission must
pursue delinquent regulatory fees, the Commission has explained that
its administrative process includes various functions, such as
gathering data and validating data from the bureaus and external
sources; validating delinquent bills; preparing delinquency bills for
transfer to collection agent for processing; and processing payments
received from collection (e.g., U.S. Department of the Treasury).
Moreover, generally, delinquent debt is transferred to the Department
of Treasury within 120 days after the date of delinquency.
56. The Commission calculates its collection costs for purposes of
determining the de minimis threshold by estimating the number of FTE
hours spent on each collection task multiplied by the value of FTE time
expended on the task, to arrive at the estimated total cost of each
task. The totals for each task are then added together to determine the
total estimated cost of collection. The total estimated cost of
collection divided by the estimated number of delinquent regulatory fee
debts for that fiscal year yields the average cost of collecting an
unpaid regulatory fee. The Commission's review of the estimated amount
of FTE time devoted to collecting delinquent regulatory fees as well as
the hourly rate of a Commission FTE assigned to such tasks reveals that
the Commission's costs have not increased above the existing de minimis
threshold.
57. Accordingly, NAB's and the State Broadcasters Associations'
inferences to the contrary both fail to validate a different result. In
particular, NAB reasons that since the Commission's staff salaries have
increased since 2022, the Commission's cost of collections has ``likely
increased.'' The State Broadcasters Associations support NAB's request
and further maintain that since some fee payors' regulatory fees have
now increased above the $1,000 de minimis threshold, it must follow
that the Commission's cost of collections ``have similarly climbed.''
But an increase in the regulatory fees of certain regulatees to levels
above the $1,000 de minimis threshold does not cause--or even directly
correlate to--an increase in FCC's cost of collection of delinquent
regulatory fees. In other words, because the methodologies for
calculating regulatory fees and the cost of collections expenses
differ, a rise in regulatory fees does not necessarily reflect or
result in an increased cost of collections. And, while FTE salaries are
one input into the Commission's cost of collection of delinquent debt,
higher salaries without a significant increase in FTE time devoted to
collections does not alone justify a 20% increase in the threshold.
58. Unlike the variable amount of regulatory fees that must be
collected on an annual basis, the cost of the Commission's collections
is less prone to fluctuations. It is merely one small aspect in the
agency implementation of a vigorous debt collection process. Thus, it
is not surprising that the cost has remained below the existing
threshold.
59. Additionally, because regulatory fees are a zero-sum game, a
higher de minimis threshold means that in order to collect the
Commission's entire appropriation, regulatees with fee obligations
above the threshold must cover the shortfall of regulatory fees that
fall below it. Consequently, raising the de minimis threshold to
benefit some regulatory fee payors over others, in the absence of an
increase in costs of collection, is not supported by the Commission's
statutory authority and is contrary to the goals of a fair,
sustainable, and administrable regulatory framework. And, while NAB is
correct that the Commission does not provide its internal collection
calculations for review by commenters,
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the results would be no different if the Commission did. The Commission
has no reason to artificially deflate the de minimis threshold as the
calculus dictated by the statute requires us to use the Commission's
predictive judgment to determine whether the cost of collections
outweighs the Commission's efforts in what will be collected.
60. Moreover, due to the limited nature of the fee exemptions
expressly provided by statute, the Commission cannot implement NAB's
suggestion to cap the regulatory fee assessment for classes of stations
that fell below the de minimis threshold last year. Establishing the de
minimis threshold on such a basis would result in exempting classes or
categories of fee payors, which would necessarily result in another set
of entities shouldering the fee burden. As the Commission explained the
last time it entertained NAB's request to raise the threshold amount,
although the de minimis threshold ``has the collateral effect of
providing financial relief to some regulatees'' that does not mean that
a regulatee's de minimis status provides it with a permanent exemption
from regulatory fees. Furthermore, as the Commission has previously
explained, pursuant to the wording of section 9(e)(2) of the Act,
``providing relief for financially strapped regulatees is not a factor
for Commission consideration in setting this threshold.'' Nothing in
the text of the statute supports using policy factors outside the cost
of collection in establishing the de minimis threshold, and any
regulatee with a financial hardship may seek a waiver, reduction, or
deferral of its regulatory fees through the Commission's well-
established process. Accordingly, after an internal evaluation of the
Commission's costs, the Commission again concludes that the cost of
collecting regulatory fees does not justify an increase to the existing
$1,000 de minimis threshold.
IV. Procedural Matters
61. Included below are procedural items as well as our current
payment and collection methods. The Commission includes these payments
and collection procedures here as a useful way of reminding regulatory
fee payers and the public about these aspects of the annual regulatory
fee collection process.
62. Commission's Registration System. To increase efficiency, the
Commission is using an all-electronic payment system for regulatory
fees, which is contained within the Commission's Registration System
(CORES). Before using CORES for the first time, you must obtain an FCC
Username through the FCC User Registration System, and subsequently use
it to access CORES and either register an FCC Registration Number (FRN)
or associate an existing FRN to your Username. If you are unable to
register electronically, you may fax your application for a
Registration Number (FCC Form 160) to the CORES Helpdesk at (202) 418-
7869 for filing procedures.
63. Credit Card Transaction Levels. In accordance with Treasury
Financial Manual, Volume I, Part 5, Chapter 7000, Section 7065.20a--
Credit Card Collections, the total daily credit card transactions
processed from a single customer can be no more than $24,999.99
(hereinafter the ``Maximum Daily Limit'') and the total monthly
transactions processed from a single customer (based on a rolling 30-
day period) can be no more than $100,000.00 (hereinafter the ``Maximum
Monthly Limit''). Transactions greater than the Maximum Limits will be
rejected. If a customer initiates multiple transactions on the same day
with the same credit card, those transactions causing the total charge
to exceed the Maximum Limits will also be rejected. This applies to
single payments or bundled payments of more than one bill. Multiple
transactions to a single agency in one day may be aggregated and
treated as a single transaction subject to the $24,999.99 limit.
Customers who wish to pay an amount greater than $24,999.99 should
consider available electronic alternatives such as debit cards,
Automates Clearing House (ACH) debits from a bank account, and wire
transfers. Each of these payment options is available after filing
regulatory fee information in the Commission's Registration System
(CORES). Further details will be provided regarding payment methods and
procedures at the time of FY 2026 regulatory fee collection in Fact
Sheets, <a href="https://www.fcc.gov/regfees">https://www.fcc.gov/regfees</a>.
64. Payment Methods. During the fee season for collecting
regulatory fees, regulatees can pay their fees by credit card through
<a href="http://Pay.gov">Pay.gov</a>, ACH, debit card, or by wire transfer. Additional payment
instructions are posted on the Commission's website at <a href="https://www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/fees/wire-transfer">https://www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/fees/wire-transfer</a>. The receiving bank
for all wire payments is the U.S. Treasury, New York, NY (TREAS NYC).
Any other form of payment (e.g., checks, cashier's checks, or money
orders) will be rejected. For payments by wire, an FCC Form 159-E
should still be transmitted via fax so that the Commission can
associate the wire payment with the correct regulatory fee information.
The fax should be sent to the Commission at (202) 418-2843 at least one
hour before initiating the wire transfer (but on the same business day)
so as not to delay crediting their account. Regulatees should discuss
arrangements (including bank closing schedules) with their bankers
several days before they plan to make the wire transfer to allow
sufficient time for the transfer to be initiated and completed before
the deadline. Complete instructions for making wire payments are posted
at <a href="https://www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/fees/wire-transfer">https://www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/fees/wire-transfer</a>.
65. De Minimis Regulatory Fees, Section 9(e)(2) Exemption. Under
the de minimis rule, and pursuant to the Commission's analysis under
section 9(e)(2) of the Act, a regulatee is exempt from paying
regulatory fees if the sum total of all of its annual regulatory fee
liabilities is $1,000 or less for the fiscal year. The de minimis
threshold applies only to filers of annual regulatory fees, not
regulatory fees paid through multi-year filings, and it is not a
permanent exemption. Each regulatee will need to reevaluate the total
annual fee liability each fiscal year to determine whether it meets the
de minimis exemption.
66. Standard Fee Calculations and Payment Dates. The Commission
will accept fee payments made in advance of the window for the payment
of regulatory fees. The responsibility for payment of fees by service
category is as follows:
<bullet> Media Services: Regulatory fees must be paid for initial
construction permits that were granted on or before October 1, 2025 for
AM/FM radio stations, full-power VHF/UHF broadcast television stations,
and satellite television stations. Regulatory fees must be paid for all
broadcast facility licenses granted on or before October 1, 2025.
<bullet> Wireline (Common Carrier) Services: Regulatory fees must
be paid for authorizations that were granted on or before October 1,
2025. In instances where an authorization is transferred or assigned
after October 1, 2025, responsibility for payment rests with the holder
of the authorization as of the fee due date. Audio bridging service
providers are included in this category. For Responsible Organizations
(RespOrgs) that manage Toll Free Numbers (TFN), regulatory fees should
be paid on all working, assigned, and reserved toll free numbers as
well as toll free numbers in any other status as defined in Sec.
52.103 of the Commission's rules. The unit count should be based on
toll free numbers managed by RespOrgs on or about December 31, 2025.
<bullet> Wireless Services: Commercial Mobile Radio Service (CMRS)
cellular,
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mobile, and messaging services (fees based on number of subscribers or
telephone number count): Regulatory fees must be paid for
authorizations that were granted on or before October 1, 2025. The
number of subscribers, units, or telephone numbers on December 31, 2025
will be used as the basis from which to calculate the fee payment. In
instances where a permit or license is transferred or assigned after
October 1, 2025, responsibility for payment rests with the holder of
the permit or license as of the fee due date.
<bullet> Wireless Services, Multi-year fees: The first eight
regulatory fee categories in the Commission's Schedule of Regulatory
Fees (Table 4) (first seven in the Commission's Calculation of Fees
(Table 3) pay ``small multi-year wireless regulatory fees.'' Entities
pay these regulatory fees in advance for the entire amount period
covered by the five-year or ten-year terms of their initial licenses
and pay regulatory fees again only when the license is renewed, or a
new license is obtained. The Commission includes these fee categories
in its rulemaking to publicize its estimates of the number of ``small
multi-year wireless'' licenses that will be renewed or newly obtained
in FY 2026.
<bullet> Multichannel Video Programming Distributor (MVPD) Services
(cable television operators, Cable Television Relay Service (CARS)
licensees, DBS, and IPTV): Regulatory fees must be paid for the number
of basic cable television subscribers as of December 31, 2025.
Regulatory fees also must be paid for CARS licenses that were granted
on or before October 1, 2025. In instances where a permit or license is
transferred or assigned after October 1, 2025, responsibility for
payment rests with the holder of the permit or license as of the fee
due date. For providers of DBS service and IPTV-based MVPDs, regulatory
fees should be paid based on a subscriber count on or about December
31, 2025. In instances where a permit or license is transferred or
assigned after October 1, 2025, responsibility for payment rests with
the holder of the permit or license as of the fee due date.
<bullet> Space Services: Regulatory fees must be paid for earth
stations that were licensed (or authorized) on or before October 1,
2025. Regulatory fees must also be paid for geostationary orbit space
stations (GSO) and non-geostationary orbit satellite systems (NGSO),
and the two NGSO subcategories ``Small Constellations '' and ``Large
Constellations,'' that were authorized or granted U.S. market access on
or before October 1, 2025. Licensees of small satellites and RPO, OOS,
and OTV space stations that were authorized or granted U.S. market
access on or before October 1, 2025 must also pay regulatory fees. In
instances where a permit or license is transferred or assigned after
October 1, 2025, responsibility for payment rests with the holder of
the authorization as of the fee due date.
<bullet> International Services (Submarine Cable Systems,
Terrestrial and Satellite Services): Regulatory fees for submarine
cable systems are to be paid on a per cable landing license basis based
on lit circuit capacity as of December 31, 2025. Regulatory fees for
terrestrial and satellite IBCs are to be paid based on active (used or
leased) international bearer circuits as of December 31, 2025, in any
terrestrial or satellite transmission facility for the provision of
service to an end user or resale carrier. When calculating the number
of such active circuits, entities must include circuits used by
themselves or their affiliates. For these purposes, ``active circuits''
include backup and redundant circuits as of December 31, 2025. Whether
circuits are used specifically for voice or data is not relevant for
purposes of determining that they are active circuits. In instances
where a permit or license is transferred or assigned after October 1,
2025, responsibility for payment rests with the holder of the permit or
license as of the fee due date.
67. CMRS and Mobile Services Assessments. The Commission will
compile data from the Numbering Resource Utilization Forecast (NRUF)
report that is based on ``assigned'' telephone number (subscriber)
counts that have been adjusted for porting to net Type 0 ports (``in''
and ``out''). The Commission has included non-geographic numbers in the
calculation of the number of subscribers for each CMRS provider in
Table 3 and the CMRS regulatory fee factor proposed in Table 4. CMRS
provider regulatory fees will be calculated and should be paid based on
the inclusion of non-geographic numbers. CMRS providers can adjust the
total number of subscribers, if needed. This information of telephone
numbers (subscriber count) will be posted on CORES along with the
carrier's Operating Company Numbers (OCNs).
68. A carrier wishing to revise its telephone number (subscriber)
count can do so by accessing CORES and following the prompts to revise
their telephone number counts. Any revisions to the telephone number
counts should be accompanied by an explanation. The Commission will
then review the revised count and supporting explanation, if any, and
either approve or disapprove the submission in CORES. If the submission
is disapproved, the Commission will contact the provider to afford the
provider an opportunity to discuss its revised subscriber count and/or
provide supporting documentation. If the Commission receives no
response from the provider, or the Commission does not reverse its
initial disapproval of the provider's revised count submission, the fee
payment must be based on the number of subscribers listed initially in
CORES. Once the timeframe for revision has passed, the telephone number
counts are final and are the basis upon which CMRS regulatory fees are
to be paid. Providers can view their final telephone counts online in
CORES.
69. Because some carriers do not file the NRUF report, they may not
see their telephone number counts in CORES. In these instances, the
carriers should compute their fee payment using the standard
methodology that is currently in place for CMRS Wireless services
(i.e., compute their telephone number counts as of December 31, 2025),
and submit their fee payment accordingly. Whether a carrier reviews its
telephone number counts in CORES or not, the Commission reserves the
right to audit the number of telephone numbers for which regulatory
fees are paid. If the Commission determines that a carrier paid CMRS or
mobile services regulatory fees based on an incorrect number of
telephone numbers, the Commission will bill the carrier for the
difference between what was paid and what should have been paid.
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Table 3--Calculation of FY 2026 Revenue Requirements and Pro-Rata Fees
[Regulatory fees for the first seven categories, identified with an *, are collected by the Commission in advance to cover the term of the license and
are submitted at the time the application is filed]
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FY 2026 Computed FY Rounded FY
FY 2025 revenue 2026 2026 Expected FY
Fee category FY 2026 payment units Years revenue requirement regulatory fee regulatory fee 2026 Rrevenue
estimate ($) ($) ($) ($) ($)
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*PLMRS (Exclusive Use)............. 1,400................. 10 320,000 350,000 25 25 350,000
*PLMRS (Shared use)................ 23,000................ 10 2,600,000 2,300,000 10 10 2,300,000
*Microwave......................... 11,000................ 10 2,600,000 2,750,000 25 25 2,750,000
*Marine (Ship)..................... 7,400................. 10 1,080,000 1,110,000 15 15 1,110,000
*Aviation (Aircraft)............... 6,000................. 10 590,000 600,000 10 10 600,000
*Marine (Coast).................... 330................... 10 144,000 132,000 40 40 132,000
*Aviation (Ground)................. 400................... 10 76,000 80,000 20 20 80,000
AM Class A \1\..................... 60.................... 1 266,220 281,748 4,696 4,695 281,700
AM Class B \1\..................... 1,330................. 1 3,316,680 3,508,878 2,638 2,640 3,511,200
AM Class C \1\..................... 780................... 1 1,184,400 1,253,782 1,607 1,605 1,251,900
AM Class D \1\..................... 1,375................. 1 3,921,960 4,152,783 3,020 3,020 4,152,500
FM Classes A, B1 & C3 \1\.......... 3,105................. 1 8,273,900 8,748,274 2,817 2,815 8,740,575
FM Classes B, C, C0, C1 & C2 \1\... 3,125................. 1 10,128,640 10,716,357 3,429 3,430 10,718,750
AM Construction Permits \2\........ 1..................... 1 570 585 585 585 585
FM Construction Permits \2\........ 15.................... 1 15,000 15,375 1,025 1,025 15,375
Digital Television \5\............. 3.498 billion 1 23,412,392 24,801,183 0.007090 0.007090 24,800,820
(including Satellite TV)........... population.
Digital TV Construction Permits \2\ 1..................... 1 41,600 5,300 5,300 5,300 5,300
LPTV/Class A/Translators FM Trans/ 6,300................. 1 1,512,500 1,606,598 255 255 1,606,500
Boosters.
CARS Stations...................... 105................... 1 194,500 205,336 1,956 1,955 205,275
Cable TV Systems, including IPTV & 42,600,000............ 1 64,680,000 68,212,762 1.6012 1.60 68,160,000
DBS.
Interstate Telecommunication $20,800,000,000....... 1 112,750,000 114,431,448 0.005502 0.005500 114,400,000
Service Providers.
Toll Free Numbers.................. 40,000,000............ 1 3,900,000 3,931,916 0.098298 0.10 4,000,000
CMRS Mobile Services (Cellular/ 637,500,000........... 1 98,352,000 103,662,178 0.1626 0.163 103,912,500
Public Mobile).
CMRS Messaging Services............ 580,000............... 1 44,800 46,400 0.08 0.08 46,400
BRS/ \3\........................... 1,230................. 1 919,600 978,625 796 800 984,000
LMDS............................... 375................... 1 281,200 298,361 796 800 300,000
Per Gbps circuit Int'l Bearer 36,000................ 1 364,000 495,475 13.76 14 504,000
Circuits.
Terrestrial (Common & Non-Common) &
Satellite (Common & Non-Common).
Submarine Cable Providers (See 88.................... 1 6,686,863 9,414,016 106,977 106,975 9,413,800
chart at bottom of Appendix B) \4\.
Earth Stations..................... 3,270................. 1 8,240,000 9,708,659 2,969 2,970 9,711,900
Space Stations (Geostationary)..... 141................... 1 21,977,450 25,886,233 183,590 183,590 25,886,190
Space Stations (Non-Geostationary, 23.................... 1 8,628,220 10,153,028 441,436 441,435 10,153,005
Small Constellation).
Space Stations (Non-Geostationary, 2..................... 1 5,752,170 6,768,685 3,384,343 3,384,345 6,768,690
Large Constellation).
Space Stations (Non-Geostationary, 23.................... 1 271,260 334,014 14,522 14,520 333,960
Small Satellite).
* * ** * * Total Estimated Revenue ...................... ........... 391,734,169 416,940,000 .............. .............. 417,186,925
to be Collected.
* * ** * * Total Revenue ...................... ........... 390,192,000 416,112,000 .............. .............. 416,112,000
Requirement.
Difference......................... ...................... ........... 1,542,258 828,000 .............. .............. 1,074,925
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Notes on Table 3
\1\ The fee amounts listed in the column entitled ``Rounded FY 2026 Reg. Fee'' are the result of dividing the revenue requirement by the payment units
of each radio class category. The actual FY 2026 regulatory fees for AM/FM radio station are listed on a grid located at the end of Table 4.
\2\ The AM and FM Construction Permit revenues and the full-power (VHF/UHF) Construction Permit revenues were adjusted, respectively, to set the
regulatory fee to an amount no higher than the lowest licensed fee for that class of service based on the threshold 10,001-25,000, the traditional
basis for identifying the lowest licensed fee. Reductions in the full-power (VHF/UHF) Construction Permit revenues, and in the AM and FM Construction
Permit revenues, were offset by increases in the revenue totals for full-power television stations by market size, and in the AM and FM radio stations
by class size and population served, respectively.
\3\ The MDS/MMDS category was renamed Broadband Radio Service (BRS). See Amendment of Parts 1, 21, 73, 74 and 101 of the Commission's Rules to
Facilitate the Provision of Fixed and Mobile Broadband Access, Educational and Other Advanced Services in the 2150-2162 and 2500-2690 MHz Bands,
Report & Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 19 FCC Rcd 14165, 14169, para. 6 (2004).
\4\ The chart at the end of Table 4 lists the submarine cable bearer circuit regulatory fees (common and non-common carrier basis) that resulted from
the adoption of the Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 2008, Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 24
FCC Rcd 6388 (2008) and Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 2008, Second Report and Order, 24 FCC Rcd 4208 (2009). The
Submarine Cable fee in Table 3 is a weighted average of the various fee payers in the chart at the end of Table 4.
\5\ The actual full-power television regulatory fees to be paid by call sign are identified in Table 8.
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Table 4--FY 2026 Schedule of Regulatory Fees
[Regulatory fees for the first eight categories listed, identified with
an *, are collected by the Commission in advance to cover the term of
the license and are submitted at the time the application is filed]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fee category Annual regulatory Fee ($)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*PLMRS (per license) (Exclusive Use) 25.
(47 CFR part 90).
*Microwave (per license) (47 CFR 25.
part 101).
*Marine (Ship) (per station) (47 CFR 15.
part 80).
*Marine (Coast) (per license) (47 40.
CFR part 80).
*Rural Radio (47 CFR part 22) 10.
(previously listed under the Land
Mobile category).
*PLMRS (Shared Use) (per license) 10.
(47 CFR part 90).
*Aviation (Aircraft) (per station) 10.
(47 CFR part 87).
*Aviation (Ground) (per license) (47 20.
CFR part 87).
CMRS Mobile/Cellular Services (per 0.163.
unit) (47 CFR parts 20, 22, 24, 27,
80 and 90) (Includes Non-Geographic
telephone numbers).
CMRS Messaging Services (per unit) 0.08.
(47 CFR parts 20, 22, 24 and 90).
Broadband Radio Service (formerly 800.
MMDS/MDS) (per license) (47 CFR
part 27).
Local Multipoint Distribution 800.
Service (per call sign) (47 CFR,
part 101).
AM Radio Construction Permits....... 585.
FM Radio Construction Permits....... 1,025.
AM and FM Broadcast Radio Station See Table Below.
Fees.
Digital TV (47 CFR part 73) VHF and 0.007090.
UHF Commercial Fee Factor.
See Appendix F for fee amounts due,
also available at <a href="https://www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/fees/regulatory-fees">https://www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/fees/regulatory-fees</a>.
Digital TV Construction Permits..... 5,300.
Low Power TV, Class A TV, TV/FM 255.
Translators & FM Boosters (47 CFR.
part 74)............................
CARS (47 CFR part 78)............... 1,955.
Cable Television Systems (per 1.60.
subscriber) (47 CFR part 76),
Including IPTV and Direct Broadcast
Satellite (DBS).
Interstate Telecommunication Service 0.0055.
Providers (per revenue dollar).
Toll Free (per toll free subscriber) 0.10.
(47 CFR 52.101 (f) of the rules).
Earth Stations: Transmit/Receive & 2,970.
Transmit only (per authorization or
registration).
Space Stations (per authorized 183,590.
station in geostationary orbit) (47
CFR part 25).
Space Stations (per authorized 441,435.
system in non-geostationary orbit)
(47 CFR part 25)--Small
Constellation (fewer than 1000
authorized space stations).
Space Stations (per authorized 3,384,345.
system in non-geostationary orbit)
(47 CFR part 25)--Large
Constellation (1000 or more
authorized space stations).
Space Stations (per license/call 14,520.
sign in non-geostationary orbit)
(47 CFR part 25) (Small Satellite).
International Bearer Circuits-- 14.
Terrestrial/Satellites (per Gbps
circuit).
Submarine Cable Landing Licenses Fee See Table Below.
(per cable system).
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FY 2026 Radio Station Regulatory Fees
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FM Classes A, FM Classes B,
Population served AM Class A AM Class B AM Class C AM Class D B1 & C3 C, C0, C1 & C2
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<=10,000................................................ $560 $405 $350 $385 $615 $700
10,001-25,000........................................... 935 675 585 645 1,025 1,170
25,001-75,000........................................... 1,405 1,015 880 970 1,540 1,755
75,001-150,000.......................................... 2,105 1,520 1,315 1,450 2,305 2,635
150,001-500,000......................................... 3,160 2,280 1,975 2,180 3,465 3,955
500,001-1,200,000....................................... 4,730 3,415 2,960 3,265 5,185 5,920
1,200,001-3,000,000..................................... 7,105 5,130 4,445 4,900 7,790 8,890
3,000,001-6,000,000..................................... 10,650 7,690 6,665 7,345 11,675 13,325
>6,000,000.............................................. 15,980 11,535 10,000 11,025 17,515 19,995
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FY 2026 International Bearer Circuits--Submarine Cable Systems
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Submarine cable systems
(capacity as of December 31, Fee ratio FY 2026 regulatory
2025) fees
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Less than 50 Gbps............... 0.0625 Units...... $6,685
50 Gbps or greater, but less 0.125 Units....... 13,370
than 250 Gbps.
250 Gbps or greater, but less 0.25 Units........ 26,745
than 1,500 Gbps.
1,500 Gbps or greater, but less 0.5 Units......... 53,490
than 3,500 Gbps.
3,500 Gbps or greater, but less 1.0 Unit.......... 106,975
than 6,500 Gbps.
6,500 Gbps or greater........... 2.0 Units......... 213,955
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Table 5--Sources of Payment Unit Estimates for FY 2026
In order to calculate individual service fees for FY 2026, the
Commission adjusted FY 2025 payment units for each service to more
accurately reflect expected FY 2026 payment liabilities. The Commission
obtained its updated estimates through a variety of means and sources.
For example, the Commission used Commission licensee databases, actual
prior year payment records, and industry and trade association
projections, where available. The databases the Commission consulted
include the Commission's Universal Licensing System (ULS),
International Communications Filing System (ICFS), Licensing and
Management System (LMS), and Cable Operations and Licensing System
(COALS), as well as reports generated within the Commission such as the
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau's Numbering Resource Utilization
Forecast. Regulatory fee payment units are not all the same for all fee
categories. For most fee categories, the term ``units'' reflect
licenses or permits that have been issued, but for other fee
categories, the term ``units'' reflect quantities such as subscribers,
population counts, circuit counts, telephone numbers, and revenues. As
more current data are received after the NPRM is released, the
Commission sometimes adjusts the NPRM fee rates to reflect the new
information in the Report and Order. This is intended to make sure that
the fee rates in the Report and Order reflect more recent and accurate
information. The Commission realizes that by adjusting the unit counts
as more accurate information is received may adjust the fee rates for
certain regulatory fee categories. Certain entities that collect the
fees from customers in advance in order to pay the Commission, such as
Cable and DBS companies, ITSP providers, Cell Phone and Toll-Free
providers, may need to adjust their billings to customers as the
Commission adjusts its fee rates. As a result, the Commission
understands that these adjustments are necessary so that these
regulatees can recover their fee obligations from their customers.
The Commission sought verification for these estimates from
multiple sources and, in all cases, the Commission compared FY 2026
estimates with actual FY 2025 payment units to ensure that its revised
estimates were reasonable. Where appropriate, the Commission adjusted
and/or rounded its final estimates to take into consideration the fact
that certain variables that impact on the number of payment units
cannot yet be estimated with sufficient accuracy. These include an
unknown number of waivers and/or exemptions that may occur in FY 2026
and the fact that, in many services, the number of actual licensees or
station operators fluctuates over time due to economic, technical, or
other reasons. When the Commission notes, for example, that its
estimated FY 2026 payment units are based on FY 2025 actual payment
units, it does not necessarily mean that the Commission's FY 2026
projection is exactly the same number as in FY 2025. The Commission has
either rounded the FY 2026 number or adjusted it slightly to account
for these variables.
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Fee category Sources of payment unit estimates
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Land Mobile (All), Microwave, Based on Wireless Telecommunications
Marine (Ship & Coast), Aviation Bureau (WTB) information as well as
(Aircraft & Ground), Domestic prior year payment information.
Public Fixed. Estimates have been adjusted to
take into consideration the
licensing of portions of these
services.
CMRS Cellular/Mobile Services..... Based on WTB projection reports, and
FY 2025 payment data.
CMRS Messaging Services........... Based on WTB reports, and FY 2025
payment data.
AM/FM Radio Stations.............. Based on downloaded LMS data,
adjusted for exemptions, and actual
FY 2025 payment units.
Digital TV Stations (Combined VHF/ Based on LMS data, fee rate adjusted
UHF units). for exemptions, and population
figures are calculated based on
individual station parameters.
AM/FM/TV Construction Permits..... Based on LMS data, adjusted for
exemptions, and actual FY 2025
payment units.
LPTV, Translators and Boosters, Based on LMS data, adjusted for
Class A Television. exemptions, and actual FY 2025
payment units.
BRS (formerly MDS/MMDS)........... Based on WTB reports and actual FY
LMDS.............................. 2025 payment units.
Based on WTB reports and actual FY
2025 payment units.
Cable Television Relay Service Based on cable trend data, data from
(CARS) Stations. the Media Bureau's COALS database,
and actual FY 2025 payment units.
Cable Television System Based on publicly available data
Subscribers, Including IPTV sources for estimated subscriber
Subscribers. counts, trend information from past
payment data, and actual FY 2025
payment units.
Interstate Telecommunication Based on FCC Form 499-A worksheets
Service Providers. due in April 2026, and any data
assistance provided by the Wireline
Competition Bureau.
Earth Stations.................... Based on Space Bureau licensing data
and actual FY 2025 payment units.
Space Stations (GSOs & NGSOs)..... Based on Space Bureau data reports
and actual FY 2025 payment units.
International Bearer Circuits..... Based on assistance provided by the
Office of International Affairs,
any data submissions by licensees,
adjusted as necessary, and actual
FY 2025 payment units.
Submarine Cable Licenses.......... Based on Office of International
Affairs license information, and
actual FY 2025 payment units.
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Table 6--Factors, Measurements, and Calculations That Determine Signal
Contours and Associated Population Coverages
AM Stations
For stations with nondirectional daytime antennas, the theoretical
radiation was used at all azimuths. For stations with directional
daytime antennas, specific information on each day tower, including
field ratio, phase, spacing, and orientation was retrieved, as well as
the theoretical pattern root-mean-square of the radiation in all
directions in the horizontal plane (RMS) figure (milliVolt per meter
(mV/m) @1 km) for the antenna system. The standard, or augmented
standard if pertinent, horizontal plane radiation pattern was
calculated using techniques and methods specified in Sec. Sec. 73.150
and 73.152 of the Commission's rules. Radiation values were calculated
for each of 360 radials around the transmitter site. Next, estimated
soil conductivity data was retrieved from a database representing the
information in FCC Figure R3. Using the calculated horizontal radiation
values, and the retrieved soil conductivity data, the
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distance to the principal community (5 mV/m) contour was predicted for
each of the 360 radials. The resulting distance to principal community
contours were used to form a geographical polygon. Population counting
was accomplished by determining which 2020 block centroids were
contained in the polygon. (A block centroid is the center point of a
small area containing population as computed by the U.S. Census
Bureau.) The sum of the population figures for all enclosed blocks
represents the total population for the predicted principal community
coverage area.
FM Stations
The greater of the horizontal or vertical effective radiated power
(ERP) (kW) and respective height above average terrain (HAAT) (m)
combination was used. Where the antenna height above mean sea level
(HAMSL) was available, it was used in lieu of the average HAAT figure
to calculate specific HAAT figures for each of 360 radials under study.
Any available directional pattern information was applied as well, to
produce a radial-specific ERP figure. The HAAT and ERP figures were
used in conjunction with the Field Strength (50-50) propagation curves
specified in 47 CFR 73.313 of the Commission's rules to predict the
distance to the principal community (70 dBu (decibel above 1 microVolt
per meter) or 3.17 mV/m) contour for each of the 360 radials. The
resulting distance to principal community contours were used to form a
geographical polygon. Population counting was accomplished by
determining which 2020 block centroids were contained in the polygon.
The sum of the population figures for all enclosed blocks represents
the total population for the predicted principal community coverage
area.
Table 7--Space Station Satellite Charts for FY 2026 Regulatory Fees
Space Stations (Geostationary Orbit): U.S.-Licensed Space Stations
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Licensee Call sign Satellite name Type
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Astranis S3092.......... ARCTURUS....... GSO.
Projects USA
LLC.
2. DIRECTV S2632.......... DIRECTV D8..... GSO.
Enterprises,
LLC.
3. DIRECTV S2640.......... DIRECTV D11.... GSO.
Enterprises,
LLC.
4. DIRECTV S2641.......... DIRECTV D10.... GSO.
Enterprises,
LLC.
5. DIRECTV S2669.......... DIRECTV D9S.... GSO.
Enterprises,
LLC.
6. DIRECTV S2673.......... DIRECTV D5..... GSO.
Enterprises,
LLC.
7. DIRECTV S2797.......... DIRECTV D12.... GSO.
Enterprises,
LLC.
8. DIRECTV S2869.......... DIRECTV D14.... GSO.
Enterprises,
LLC.
9. DIRECTV S2930.......... DIRECTV D15.... GSO.
Enterprises,
LLC.
10. DIRECTV S3039.......... DIRECTV D16.... GSO.
Enterprises,
LLC.
11. DISH Operating S2694.......... ECHOSTAR 10.... GSO.
L.L.C..
12. DISH Operating S2738.......... ECHOSTAR 11.... GSO.
L.L.C..
13. DISH Operating S2790.......... ECHOSTAR 14.... GSO.
L.L.C..
14. DISH Operating S2931.......... ECHOSTAR 18.... GSO.
L.L.C..
15. EchoStar S2811.......... ECHOSTAR 15.... GSO.
Satellite
Operating
Corporation.
16. EchoStar S2844.......... ECHOSTAR 16.... GSO.
Satellite
Operating
Corporation.
17. EchoStar S2179.......... ECHOSTAR 9..... GSO.
Satellite
Services L.L.C..
18. EchoStar BSS S3093.......... ECHOSTAR 23.... GSO.
Corp.
19. ES 172 LLC...... S2610.......... EUTELSAT 174A.. GSO.
20. ES 172 LLC...... S3021.......... EUTELSAT 172B.. GSO.
21. Horizon-3 S2947.......... HORIZONS-3e.... GSO.
Satellite LLC.
22. Hughes Network S2753.......... ECHOSTAR XVII.. GSO.
Systems, LLC.
23 Hughes Network S2834.......... ECHOSTAR 19.... GSO.
Systems, LLC.
24. Hughes Network S3017.......... ECHOSTAR 24 GSO.
Systems, LLC. (JUPITER 3).
25. Intelsat License S2160.......... GALAXY 28...... GSO.
LLC/Viasat,
Inc..
26. Intelsat License S2381.......... GALAXY 3C...... GSO.
LLC.
27. Intelsat License S2382.......... INTELSAT 10.... GSO.
LLC.
28. Intelsat License S2386.......... GALAXY 13/ GSO.
LLC. Horizons 1.
29. Intelsat License S2406.......... INTELSAT 902... GSO.
LLC.
30. Intelsat License S2408.......... INTELSAT 904... GSO.
LLC.
31. Intelsat License S2409.......... INTELSAT 905... GSO.
LLC.
32. Intelsat License S2410.......... INTELSAT 906... GSO.
LLC.
33. Intelsat License S2414.......... INTELSAT 10-02. GSO.
LLC.
34. Intelsat License S2423.......... HORIZONS 2..... GSO.
LLC.
35. Intelsat License S2647.......... GALAXY 19...... GSO.
LLC.
36. Intelsat License S2687.......... GALAXY 16...... GSO.
LLC.
37. Intelsat License S2715.......... GALAXY 17...... GSO.
LLC.
38. Intelsat License S2733.......... GALAXY 18...... GSO.
LLC.
39. Intelsat License S2750.......... INTELSAT 16.... GSO.
LLC.
40. Intelsat License S2751.......... INTELSAT 28.... GSO.
LLC.
41. Intelsat License S2785.......... INTELSAT 14.... GSO.
LLC.
42. Intelsat License S2804.......... INTELSAT 25.... GSO.
LLC.
43. Intelsat License S2817.......... INTELSAT 18.... GSO.
LLC.
44. Intelsat License S2831.......... INTELSAT 23.... GSO.
LLC.
45. Intelsat License S2846.......... INTELSAT 22.... GSO.
LLC.
46. Intelsat License S2847.......... INTELSAT 20.... GSO.
LLC.
47. Intelsat License S2850.......... INTELSAT 19.... GSO.
LLC.
48. Intelsat License S2863.......... INTELSAT 21.... GSO.
LLC.
49. Intelsat License S2789.......... INTELSAT 15.... GSO.
LLC.
50. Intelsat License S2814.......... INTELSAT 17.... GSO.
LLC.
51. Intelsat License S2887.......... INTELSAT 30.... GSO.
LLC.
52. Intelsat License S2915.......... INTELSAT 34.... GSO.
LLC.
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53. Intelsat License S2924.......... INTELSAT 31.... GSO.
LLC.
54. Intelsat License S2948.......... INTELSAT 36.... GSO.
LLC.
55. Intelsat License S2959.......... INTELSAT 35e... GSO.
LLC.
56. Intelsat License S2972.......... INTELSAT 37e... GSO.
LLC.
57. Intelsat License S3015.......... GALAXY 33...... GSO.
LLC.
58. Intelsat License S3016.......... GALAXY 30...... GSO.
LLC.
59. Intelsat License S3023.......... INTELSAT 39.... GSO.
LLC.
60. Intelsat License S3066.......... INTELSAT 40e... GSO.
LLC.
61. Intelsat License S3076.......... GALAXY 31...... GSO.
LLC.
62. Intelsat License S3078.......... GALAXY 32...... GSO.
LLC.
63. Intelsat License S3083.......... GALAXY 34...... GSO.
LLC.
64. Intelsat License S3143.......... GALAXY 35...... GSO.
LLC.
65. Intelsat License S3148.......... GALAXY 36...... GSO.
LLC.
66. Intelsat License S3164.......... GALAXY 37...... GSO.
LLC.
67. Ligado Networks S2358.......... SKYTERRA-1..... GSO.
Subsidiary, LLC.
68. Novavision S2861.......... DIRECTV KU-79W. GSO.
Group, Inc..
69. Open Plaza Corp./ S2922.......... SKY-B1......... GSO.
DIRECTV Latin
America, LLC.
70. Satellite CD S2812.......... FM-6........... GSO.
Radio LLC.
71. SES Americom, S2162.......... AMC-3.......... GSO.
Inc..
72. SES Americom, S2180.......... AMC-15......... GSO.
Inc..
73. SES Americom, S2347.......... AMC-6.......... GSO.
Inc..
74. SES Americom, S2415.......... NSS-10......... GSO.
Inc..
75. SES Americom, S2826.......... SES-2.......... GSO.
Inc..
76. SES Americom, S2807.......... SES-1.......... GSO.
Inc..
77. SES Americom, S2892.......... SES-3.......... GSO.
Inc..
78. SES Americom, S3097.......... SES-19......... GSO.
Inc..
79. SES Americom, S3138.......... SES-22......... GSO.
Inc..
80. SES Americom, S3096.......... SES-18......... GSO.
Inc..
81. SES Americom, S3098.......... SES-20......... GSO.
Inc..
82. SES Americom, S3099.......... SES-21......... GSO.
Inc..
83. Silkwave Africa, S3074.......... AsiaStar....... GSO.
LLC.
84. Sirius XM Radio S2710.......... FM-5........... GSO.
Inc..
85. Sirius XM Radio S3033.......... SXM-7.......... GSO.
Inc..
86. Sirius XM Radio S3034.......... SXM-8.......... GSO.
Inc..
87. Sirius XM Radio S3166.......... SXM-9.......... GSO.
Inc..
88. Sirius XM Radio S3167.......... SXM-10......... GSO.
Inc..
89. Skynet Satellite S2933.......... TELSTAR 12V.... GSO.
Corp..
90. Skynet Satellite S2357.......... TELSTAR 11N.... GSO.
Corporation.
91. Telesat Canada.. S2433.......... ANIK F4 (AMC- GSO.
11).
92. Viasat, Inc..... S2747.......... VIASAT-1....... GSO.
93. Viasat, Inc..... S2917.......... VIASAT-3....... GSO.
94. Viasat, Inc..... S3050.......... VIASAT-89US.... GSO.
95. XM Radio LLC.... S2786.......... XM-5........... GSO.
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Space Stations (Geostationary Orbit): Non-U.S.-Licensed Space Stations--
Market Access Through Petition for Declaratory Ruling
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Grantee Call sign Satellite name Type
------------------------------------------------------------------------
96. Avanti Hylas 2 S3130.......... HYLAS-4........ GSO.
Lt..
97. DBSD Services S2651.......... DBSD G1........ GSO.
Ltd.
98. Embratel TVSAT S3142.......... Star One D2.... GSO.
Telecomunicaco
es S.A.
99. Embratel TVSAT S3192.......... Star One C4.... GSO.
Telecomunicaco
es S.A.
100. Empresa S2956.......... ARSAT-2........ GSO.
Argentina de
Soluciones
Satelitales
S.A.
101. Embratel Tvsat S2678.......... STAR ONE C2.... GSO.
Telecommunicac
oes S.A.
102. Embratel Tvsat S2845.......... STAR ONE C3.... GSO.
Telecommunicac
oes S.A.
103. Eutelsat do S3226.......... EUTELSAT 65 GSO.
Brasil Ltda. West A.
104. Eutelsat S.A... S3055.......... EUTELSAT 139 GSO.
WEST A.
105. Eutelsat S.A... S3056.......... EUTELSAT 8 WEST GSO.
B.
106. Gamma S2633.......... TerreStar 1.... GSO.
Acquisition
L.L.C.
107. Hispamar S2886.......... AMAZONAS-3..... GSO.
Sat[eacute]lit
es, S.A.
108. Hispamar S3086.......... AMAZONAS NEXUS. GSO.
Sat[eacute]lit
es, S.A.
109. Hispasat, S.A.. S2969.......... HISPASAT 30W-6. GSO.
110. Horizons-4 S3180.......... Horizon-4...... GSO.
Satellite LLC.
111. Inmarsat PLC... S2932.......... Inmarsat-4 F3.. GSO.
112. Inmarsat PLC... S2949.......... Inmarsat-3 F5.. GSO.
113. Inmarsat PLC... S3205.......... Inmarsat 4-F2.. GSO.
114. New Skies S2756.......... NSS-9.......... GSO.
Satellites B.V.
115. New Skies S2828.......... SES-4.......... GSO.
Satellites B.V.
116. New Skies S2870.......... SES-6.......... GSO.
Satellites B.V.
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117. New Skies S2950.......... SES-10......... GSO.
Satellites B.V.
118. Satelites S2873.......... EUTELSAT 117 GSO.
Mexicanos, WEST A.
S.A. de C.V.
119. Satelites S2926.......... EUTELSAT 117 GSO.
Mexicanos, WEST B.
S.A. de C.V.
120. Satelites S2938.......... EUTELSAT 115 GSO.
Mexicanos, WEST B.
S.A. de C.V.
121. SES Satellites S2676.......... AMC 21......... GSO.
(Gibraltar)
Ltd.
122. SES Satellites S2951.......... SES-15......... GSO.
(Gibraltar)
Ltd.
123. SES Americom, S2964.......... SES-11......... GSO.
Inc.
124. SES Americom, S3037.......... NSS-11......... GSO.
Inc.
125. SES DTH do S2974.......... SES-14......... GSO.
Brasil Ltda.
126. SES-17 S.a.r.l. S3043.......... SES-17......... GSO.
127. Spacing Guild S3150.......... NuView Bravo... GSO.
UK Limited.
128. Spacing Guild S3151.......... NuView Alpha... GSO.
UK Limited.
129. Telesat Brasil S2821.......... ESTRELA DO SUL GSO.
Capacidade de 2.
Satelites Ltda.
130. Telesat Canada. S2674.......... ANIK F1R....... GSO.
131. Telesat Canada. S2703.......... ANIK F3........ GSO.
132. Telesat Canada. S2472.......... ANIK F2........ GSO.
133. Telesat S2955.......... TELSTAR 19 GSO.
International VANTAGE.
Ltd.
134. Viasat, Inc.... S2902.......... VIASAT-2....... GSO.
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Space Stations (Geostationary Orbit): Non-U.S.-Licensed Space Stations--
Market Access Through Earth Station Licenses
------------------------------------------------------------------------
ITU or operator
name (if Call sign Common name Type
available)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
135. AUSSAT B 152E.. M221170........ OPTUS D2....... GSO.
136. Ciel Satellite E050029........ Ciel-2......... GSO.
Group.
137. Ciel Satellite E140100........ Ciel-6i........ GSO.
Group.
138. QuetzSat, S.de E090020........ Quetzsat-1..... GSO.
R.L. de C.V.
139. Eutelsat 65 E160081........ Eutelsat 65 GSO.
West A. West A.
140. INMARSAT 5F2... E120072........ INMARSAT 5F2... GSO.
141. INMARSAT 5F3... E150028........ INMARSAT 5F3... GSO.
142. JCSAT-2B....... M174163........ JCSAT-2B....... GSO.
143. NIMIQ 5........ E080107........ NIMIQ 5........ GSO.
144. WILDBLUE-1..... E040213........ WILDBLUE-1..... GSO.
145. APT Satellite M161190........ APSTAR 6C...... GSO.
Holdings.
146. APT Satellite M246190........ APSTAR 6D...... GSO.
Holdings.
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Space Stations
[Per license/call sign in non-geostationary orbit]
[Small satellite]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Licensee/grantee Call sign Satellite name Type
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Aethero Space Inc.... S3189................ Deimos............... Small Satellite.
2. Capella Space Corp... S3162................ Acadia-1&2........... Small Satellite.
3. ICEYE US, Inc........ S3082................ ICEYE................ Small Satellite.
4. ICEYE US, Inc........ S3165................ ICEYE Second Tranche. Small Satellite.
5. ICEYE US, Inc........ S3224................ ICEYE Third Tranche.. Small Satellite.
6. Impulse Space........ S3194................ Impulse-2............ Small Satellite.
7. Impulse Space........ S3228................ Impulse-3............ Small Satellite.
8. Loft Orbital S3072................ YAM-3................ Small Satellite.
Solutions Inc.
9. Loft Orbital S3147................ YAM-5................ Small Satellite.
Solutions Inc.
10. Loft Orbital S3170................ YAM-6................ Small Satellite.
Solutions, Inc.
11. Loft Orbital S3184................ YAM-7................ Small Satellite.
Solutions, Inc.
12. Loft Orbital S3199................ YAM-8................ Small Satellite.
Solutions, Inc.
13. Loft Orbital S3227................ YAM-9................ Small Satellite.
Solutions, Inc.
14. Lynk Global, Inc..... S3087................ Lynk Towers.......... Small Satellite.
15. Space Logistics, LLC. S2990................ Mission Extension RPO/OOS.
Vehicle-1.
16. Space Logistics, LLC. S3059................ Mission Extension RPO/OOS.
Vehicle-2.
17. Space Sciences & S3153................ GNOMES-4............. Small Satellite.
Engineering LLC.
18. Space Sciences & S3185................ GNOMES-5............. Small Satellite.
Engineering LLC.
19. Turion Space Corp.... S3146................ DROID.001............ Small Satellite.
20. Turion Space Corp.... S3198................ DROID.002............ Small Satellite.
21. Umbra Lab Inc........ S3095................ Umbra SAR............ Small Satellite.
22. Umbra Lab Inc........ S3168................ Umbra Block Two SAR Small Satellite.
Constellation.
23. Umbra Lab Inc........ S3186................ Umbra Block 2.1 SAR Small Satellite.
Constellation.
24. Xona Space Systems, S3215................ IOV.................. Small Satellite.
Inc.
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25. XPLORE, Inc.......... S3193................ XCUBE-1.............. Small Satellite.
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Space Stations (Non-Geostationary Orbit)--Small Constellations
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Authorized
Licensee/grantee Call sign Satellite/system name stations
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Albedo Space Inc........ S3208............................ Clarity-1.............. 1
2. AST & Science, LLC...... S3065............................ Bluebird Block 1....... 5
3. BlackSky Global, LLC.... S3032............................ Global................. 16
4. Capella Space Corp...... S3178............................ Acadia-3, Acadia-4, 4
Acadia-5, Acadia-6.
5. Globalstar License LLC.. S2115............................ GLOBALSTAR............. 96
6. Hawkeye 360............. S3042............................ HE360.................. 174
7. Iridium Constellation S2110............................ IRIDIUM................ 99
LLC.
8. Kepler Communications, S2981............................ KEPLER................. 140
Inc.
9. Kineis.................. S3054............................ KINEIS................. 25
10. Loft Orbital Solutions, S3181............................ YAC-1.................. 10
Inc.
11. Maxar License, Inc., DG S2129/S2348...................... WorldView 1, 2 & 3, 15
Consents Sub, Inc. GeoEye-1, Worldview
Legion.
12. Muon Space, Inc......... S3173............................ MuSat-2, MuSat-3....... 2
13. Myriota Pty. Ltd........ S3047............................ MYRIOTA................ 26
14. O3b Limited............. S2935............................ O3b.................... 42
15. ORBCOMM License Corp.... S2103............................ ORBCOMM................ 72
16. Orbital Sidekick, Inc... S3139............................ GHOSt.................. 6
17. Planet Labs PBC......... S2912/S3152...................... Flock/Skysats/Tanager 1/ 578
Tanager 2.
18. Pixxel Space S3200............................ FLYY................... 3
Technologies, Inc.
19. Sidus Space, Inc........ S3175............................ LizzieSat-2, LizzieSat- 4
3, LizzieSat-4,
LizzieSat-5.
20. Sierra Nevada Company, S3214............................ Vindler Constellation.. 3
LLC.
21. Space Norway AS......... S2978............................ ARCTIC SATELLITE 2
BROADBAND MISSION.
22. Spire Global, Inc....... S3213/S3045/S3182................ LEMUR-4 & MINAS & 175
HUBBLE.
23. Telesat LEO Inc......... S2976............................ TELESAT Ku/Ka-Band..... 117
24. The Tomorrow Companies, S3156............................ Tomorrow.io Weather 4
Inc. Constellation.
25. WorldVu Satellites Ltd.. S2963............................ ONEWEB Ku-/Ka-/V-BAND.. 716
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Space Stations (Non-Geostationary)--Large Constellations
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Authorized
Licensee/grantee Call sign Satellite/ system name stations
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Kuiper Systems LLC...... S3051............................ KUIPER................. 3,232
2. Space Exploration S2983/S3018/S2992/S3069/S3041.... SPACEX/Ku-/Ka-/V-band/ 19.408
Holdings, LLC. Gen 2/Swarm.
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Table 8--FY 2026 Full-Service Broadcast Television Stations By Call Sign
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Terrain- Terrain-
Facility Id Call sign Service area limited limited fee
population population amount ($)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3246............................ KAAH-TV....................... 1,018,897 939,246 $6,659
18285........................... KAAL.......................... 605,222 580,564 4,116
11912........................... KAAS-TV....................... 243,984 243,947 1,730
56528........................... KABB.......................... 3,017,860 3,000,477 21,273
282............................. KABC-TV....................... 18,303,336 17,670,502 125,284
1236............................ KACV-TV....................... 383,228 383,071 2,716
33261........................... KADN-TV....................... 889,583 889,583 6,307
8263............................ KAEF-TV....................... 139,510 124,133 880
2728............................ KAET.......................... 4,867,739 4,836,434 34,290
2767............................ KAFT.......................... 1,294,492 1,218,670 8,640
62442........................... KAID.......................... 864,547 857,276 6,078
4145............................ KAII-TV....................... 203,698 179,435 1,272
67494........................... KAIL.......................... 2,091,288 2,061,175 14,614
13988........................... KAIT.......................... 594,090 583,749 4,139
40517........................... KAJB.......................... 393,654 393,355 2,789
65522........................... KAKE.......................... 821,488 816,811 5,791
804............................. KAKM.......................... 397,237 395,241 2,802
148............................. KAKW-DT....................... 3,350,876 3,242,159 22,987
51598........................... KALB-TV....................... 933,915 932,500 6,611
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51241........................... KALO.......................... 1,018,088 971,631 6,889
40820........................... KAMC.......................... 411,973 411,949 2,921
8523............................ KAMR-TV....................... 377,485 377,410 2,676
65301........................... KAMU-TV....................... 395,784 392,044 2,780
2506............................ KAPP.......................... 337,194 298,159 2,114
3658............................ KARD.......................... 680,743 678,724 4,812
23079........................... KARE.......................... 4,243,145 4,234,439 30,022
33440........................... KARK-TV....................... 1,243,813 1,230,366 8,723
37005........................... KARZ-TV....................... 1,153,588 1,134,221 8,042
32311........................... KASA-TV....................... 1,198,361 1,159,350 8,220
41212........................... KASN.......................... 1,200,705 1,185,725 8,407
7143............................ KASW.......................... 4,828,272 4,813,078 34,125
55049........................... KASY-TV....................... 1,182,887 1,143,258 8,106
33471........................... KATC.......................... 1,376,057 1,376,057 9,756
13813........................... KATN.......................... 95,520 95,197 675
21649........................... KATU.......................... 3,400,708 3,238,560 22,961
33543........................... KATV.......................... 1,285,451 1,265,986 8,976
50182........................... KAUT-TV....................... 1,826,857 1,825,132 12,940
21488........................... KAUU.......................... 398,876 396,486 2,811
6864............................ KAUZ-TV....................... 366,943 365,162 2,589
73101........................... KAVU-TV....................... 323,202 322,961 2,290
49579........................... KAWB.......................... 193,767 193,705 1,373
49578........................... KAWE.......................... 139,854 137,788 977
58684........................... KAYU-TV....................... 925,282 861,276 6,106
29234........................... KAZA-TV....................... 15,481,136 14,233,993 100,919
17433........................... KAZD.......................... 8,087,952 8,085,339 57,325
776273.......................... KAZF.......................... 253,785 188,057 1,333
1151............................ KAZQ.......................... 1,137,703 1,126,947 7,990
776268.......................... KAZS.......................... 396,796 390,474 2,768
35811........................... KAZT-TV....................... 495,353 409,112 2,901
4148............................ KBAK-TV....................... 1,626,532 1,363,867 9,670
16940........................... KBCA.......................... 465,218 465,157 3,298
53586........................... KBCB.......................... 1,510,168 1,478,647 10,484
22685........................... KBDI-TV....................... 4,731,715 4,335,180 30,736
65395........................... KBFD-DT....................... 1,016,508 887,671 6,294
169030.......................... KBGS-TV....................... 176,271 173,911 1,233
61068........................... KBHE-TV....................... 153,390 144,914 1,027
48556........................... KBIM-TV....................... 226,233 226,194 1,604
29108........................... KBIN-TV....................... 1,014,918 1,013,041 7,182
33658........................... KBJR-TV....................... 278,564 274,572 1,947
83306........................... KBLN-TV....................... 322,286 145,745 1,033
63768........................... KBLR.......................... 2,280,730 2,220,879 15,746
53324........................... KBME-TV....................... 146,149 146,082 1,036
10150........................... KBMT.......................... 799,217 798,262 5,660
22121........................... KBMY.......................... 142,682 142,622 1,011
49760........................... KBOI-TV....................... 872,030 863,497 6,122
55370........................... KBRR.......................... 154,408 154,405 1,095
66414........................... KBSD-DT....................... 151,986 151,901 1,077
66415........................... KBSH-DT....................... 97,884 95,916 680
19593........................... KBSI.......................... 730,259 728,325 5,164
66416........................... KBSL-DT....................... 47,462 46,328 328
4939............................ KBSV.......................... 1,535,281 1,424,913 10,103
62469........................... KBTC-TV....................... 4,319,699 4,228,861 29,983
61214........................... KBTV-TV....................... 771,692 771,692 5,471
6669............................ KBTX-TV....................... 5,354,551 5,351,089 37,939
35909........................... KBVO.......................... 1,911,833 1,684,206 11,941
58618........................... KBVU.......................... 136,908 121,846 864
776229.......................... KBWT.......................... 2,672 2,667 19
6823............................ KBYU-TV....................... 2,838,181 2,620,447 18,579
33756........................... KBZK.......................... 153,764 141,054 1,000
21422........................... KCAL-TV....................... 18,258,912 17,586,821 124,691
11265........................... KCAU-TV....................... 769,096 754,352 5,348
14867........................... KCBA.......................... 3,334,176 2,557,080 18,130
27507........................... KCBD.......................... 426,315 426,302 3,022
9628............................ KCBS-TV....................... 18,628,137 17,359,665 123,080
776213.......................... KCBU.......................... 28,971 23,368 166
49750........................... KCBY-TV....................... 92,825 77,624 550
33710........................... KCCI.......................... 1,216,146 1,209,219 8,573
9640............................ KCCW-TV....................... 294,831 287,246 2,037
63158........................... KCDO-TV....................... 3,305,368 3,160,730 22,410
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62424........................... KCDT.......................... 807,726 762,258 5,404
83913........................... KCEB.......................... 446,377 445,850 3,161
57219........................... KCEC.......................... 4,497,531 4,237,580 30,044
10245........................... KCEN-TV....................... 2,224,490 2,174,193 15,415
13058........................... KCET.......................... 17,868,933 16,310,676 115,643
18079........................... KCFW-TV....................... 196,292 157,001 1,113
132606.......................... KCGE.......................... 129,876 129,876 921
60793........................... KCHF.......................... 1,175,596 1,148,137 8,140
33722........................... KCIT.......................... 392,243 391,646 2,777
62468........................... KCKA.......................... 1,082,723 906,771 6,429
41969........................... KCLO-TV....................... 150,949 145,392 1,031
47903........................... KCNC-TV....................... 4,460,509 4,175,114 29,602
71586........................... KCNS.......................... 9,007,762 8,012,556 56,809
33742........................... KCOP-TV....................... 18,134,022 17,318,605 122,789
19117........................... KCOS.......................... 1,092,982 1,092,792 7,748
63165........................... KCOY-TV....................... 700,154 478,768 3,394
33894........................... KCPQ.......................... 5,131,164 4,985,829 35,350
53843........................... KCPT.......................... 2,690,171 2,688,808 19,064
33875........................... KCRA-TV....................... 11,608,107 7,153,845 50,721
9719............................ KCRG-TV....................... 1,143,055 1,130,704 8,017
60728........................... KCSD-TV....................... 323,237 323,093 2,291
59494........................... KCSG.......................... 229,899 220,818 1,566
33749........................... KCTS-TV....................... 4,848,434 4,778,758 33,881
41230........................... KCTV.......................... 2,732,197 2,730,443 19,359
58605........................... KCVU.......................... 700,745 689,702 4,890
10036........................... KCWC-DT....................... 42,872 38,501 273
64444........................... KCWE.......................... 2,642,880 2,641,432 18,728
51502........................... KCWI-TV....................... 1,152,163 1,151,070 8,161
42008........................... KCWO-TV....................... 55,411 55,383 393
166511.......................... KCWV.......................... 210,633 210,626 1,493
24316........................... KCWX.......................... 4,897,780 4,890,042 34,670
68713........................... KCWY-DT....................... 85,085 84,715 601
22201........................... KDAF.......................... 7,951,276 7,949,040 56,359
33764........................... KDBC-TV....................... 1,101,513 1,097,028 7,778
79258........................... KDCK.......................... 43,010 42,993 305
166332.......................... KDCU-DT....................... 773,823 773,808 5,486
38375........................... KDEN-TV....................... 3,973,266 3,942,210 27,950
17037........................... KDFI.......................... 7,990,955 7,989,287 56,644
33770........................... KDFW.......................... 7,962,141 7,959,855 56,435
29102........................... KDIN-TV....................... 1,193,740 1,189,191 8,431
25454........................... KDKA-TV....................... 3,569,162 3,428,192 24,306
60740........................... KDKF.......................... 73,619 66,137 469
4691............................ KDLH.......................... 267,326 264,686 1,877
41975........................... KDLO-TV....................... 214,001 213,796 1,516
55379........................... KDLT-TV....................... 700,230 689,305 4,887
55375........................... KDLV-TV....................... 98,101 97,673 693
25221........................... KDMD.......................... 394,250 391,278 2,774
78915........................... KDMI.......................... 1,248,443 1,247,337 8,844
56524........................... KDNL-TV....................... 3,013,924 3,009,244 21,336
24518........................... KDOC-TV....................... 18,264,021 17,379,123 123,218
1005............................ KDOR-TV....................... 1,180,603 1,177,894 8,351
60736........................... KDRV.......................... 551,809 469,537 3,329
61064........................... KDSD-TV....................... 65,355 60,171 427
53329........................... KDSE.......................... 52,777 51,188 363
56527........................... KDSM-TV....................... 1,202,702 1,201,866 8,521
49326........................... KDTN.......................... 7,901,133 7,898,922 56,003
83491........................... KDTP.......................... 25,965 23,729 168
33778........................... KDTV-DT....................... 8,697,794 7,750,134 54,948
67910........................... KDTX-TV....................... 7,985,188 7,983,676 56,604
126............................. KDVR.......................... 4,301,541 4,144,268 29,383
18084........................... KECI-TV....................... 228,161 210,560 1,493
51208........................... KECY-TV....................... 407,175 403,848 2,863
791767.......................... KEDB.......................... 105,050 97,963 695
791702.......................... KEDS.......................... 2,594,159 2,593,835 18,390
58408........................... KEDT.......................... 527,343 527,343 3,739
55435........................... KEET.......................... 181,333 161,389 1,144
41983........................... KELO-TV....................... 767,130 715,437 5,072
34440........................... KEMO-TV....................... 9,007,762 8,012,556 56,809
776162.......................... KEMS.......................... 55,920 54,847 389
2777............................ KEMV.......................... 634,060 576,758 4,089
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26304........................... KENS.......................... 3,091,086 3,077,749 21,821
63845........................... KENV-DT....................... 52,294 45,932 326
18338........................... KENW.......................... 85,762 85,762 608
50591........................... KEPB-TV....................... 680,317 618,277 4,384
56029........................... KEPR-TV....................... 529,602 519,486 3,683
49324........................... KERA-TV....................... 7,984,381 7,981,440 56,588
40878........................... KERO-TV....................... 1,387,245 1,257,683 8,917
61067........................... KESD-TV....................... 172,302 165,214 1,171
25577........................... KESQ-TV....................... 1,487,393 615,803 4,366
50205........................... KETA-TV....................... 1,874,445 1,860,161 13,189
62182........................... KETC.......................... 2,945,200 2,942,622 20,863
37101........................... KETD.......................... 3,918,776 3,879,692 27,507
2768............................ KETG.......................... 421,357 403,179 2,859
12895........................... KETH-TV....................... 7,293,196 7,293,115 51,708
55643........................... KETK-TV....................... 1,072,485 1,071,097 7,594
2770............................ KETS.......................... 1,209,518 1,191,713 8,449
53903........................... KETV.......................... 1,491,674 1,486,408 10,539
92872........................... KETZ.......................... 505,102 502,310 3,561
68853........................... KEYC-TV....................... 553,554 539,853 3,828
33691........................... KEYE-TV....................... 3,533,479 3,444,549 24,422
60637........................... KEYT-TV....................... 1,466,777 1,275,243 9,041
83715........................... KEYU.......................... 366,142 366,071 2,595
34406........................... KEZI.......................... 1,221,893 1,166,907 8,273
73701........................... KFAA-TV....................... 7,987,157 7,983,918 56,606
34412........................... KFBB-TV....................... 96,782 95,488 677
125............................. KFCT.......................... 967,548 960,099 6,807
51466........................... KFDA-TV....................... 394,744 393,695 2,791
22589........................... KFDM.......................... 770,621 770,609 5,464
48521........................... KFDR.......................... 672,350 657,307 4,660
65370........................... KFDX-TV....................... 367,320 366,583 2,599
49264........................... KFFV.......................... 4,674,758 4,634,964 32,862
12729........................... KFFX-TV....................... 467,787 463,006 3,283
83992........................... KFJX.......................... 709,125 679,797 4,820
42122........................... KFMB-TV....................... 4,239,135 3,914,207 27,752
53321........................... KFME.......................... 442,176 441,664 3,131
74256........................... KFNB.......................... 84,543 83,990 595
21613........................... KFNE.......................... 53,059 52,392 371
21612........................... KFNR.......................... 9,724 9,457 67
66222........................... KFOR-TV....................... 1,813,323 1,811,723 12,845
33716........................... KFOX-TV....................... 1,107,424 1,097,251 7,780
41517........................... KFPH-DT....................... 385,474 313,720 2,224
81509........................... KFPX-TV....................... 1,072,290 1,072,222 7,602
31597........................... KFQX.......................... 197,918 173,495 1,230
59013........................... KFRE-TV....................... 1,850,426 1,835,478 13,014
51429........................... KFSF-DT....................... 7,986,866 7,039,241 49,908
66469........................... KFSM-TV....................... 1,005,574 981,351 6,958
8620............................ KFSN-TV....................... 1,973,837 1,957,017 13,875
29560........................... KFTA-TV....................... 907,937 894,593 6,343
83714........................... KFTC.......................... 64,284 64,250 456
60537........................... KFTH-DT....................... 7,287,908 7,287,530 51,669
60549........................... KFTR-DT....................... 18,326,526 16,971,273 120,326
61335........................... KFTS.......................... 77,847 66,866 474
81441........................... KFTU-DT....................... 109,271 105,476 748
34439........................... KFTV-DT....................... 1,930,415 1,914,464 13,574
664............................. KFVE.......................... 91,164 81,417 577
592............................. KFVS-TV....................... 867,085 843,470 5,980
29015........................... KFWD.......................... 7,970,373 7,964,229 56,466
35336........................... KFXA.......................... 914,357 912,893 6,472
17625........................... KFXB-TV....................... 377,548 370,365 2,626
70917........................... KFXK-TV....................... 969,012 966,868 6,855
84453........................... KFXL-TV....................... 977,327 976,428 6,923
56079........................... KFXV.......................... 1,335,643 1,335,643 9,470
41427........................... KFYR-TV....................... 153,218 150,858 1,070
25685........................... KGAN.......................... 1,122,060 1,109,804 7,869
34457........................... KGBT-TV....................... 1,350,104 1,350,004 9,572
7841............................ KGCW.......................... 938,174 935,835 6,635
24485........................... KGEB.......................... 1,257,918 1,224,797 8,684
34459........................... KGET-TV....................... 982,744 940,071 6,665
53320........................... KGFE.......................... 120,164 120,164 852
7894............................ KGIN.......................... 235,875 233,749 1,657
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83945........................... KGLA-DT....................... 1,754,806 1,754,806 12,442
34445........................... KGMB.......................... 1,017,227 907,842 6,437
58608........................... KGMC.......................... 2,076,523 2,052,808 14,554
36914........................... KGMD-TV....................... 101,247 100,762 714
36920........................... KGMV.......................... 209,577 175,904 1,247
10061........................... KGNS-TV....................... 283,777 274,877 1,949
34470........................... KGO-TV........................ 9,406,080 8,630,291 61,189
56034........................... KGPE.......................... 1,829,902 1,812,936 12,854
81694........................... KGPX-TV....................... 792,059 724,592 5,137
25511........................... KGTF.......................... 155,729 154,491 1,095
40876........................... KGTV.......................... 4,257,568 3,912,037 27,736
36918........................... KGUN-TV....................... 1,479,221 1,292,183 9,162
34874........................... KGW........................... 3,397,112 3,239,730 22,970
63177........................... KGWC-TV....................... 84,597 84,117 596
63162........................... KGWL-TV....................... 37,314 37,199 264
63166........................... KGWN-TV....................... 558,685 528,237 3,745
63170........................... KGWR-TV....................... 49,435 49,242 349
4146............................ KHAW-TV....................... 102,381 101,946 723
60353........................... KHBS.......................... 610,455 588,263 4,171
27300........................... KHCE-TV....................... 2,848,289 2,842,696 20,155
26431........................... KHET.......................... 1,022,459 1,009,772 7,159
21160........................... KHGI-TV....................... 245,331 244,515 1,734
36917........................... KHII-TV....................... 1,017,217 907,842 6,437
29085........................... KHIN.......................... 1,137,059 1,135,866 8,053
17688........................... KHME.......................... 196,002 194,233 1,377
47670........................... KHMT.......................... 193,159 188,714 1,338
47987........................... KHNE-TV....................... 205,833 204,923 1,453
34867........................... KHNL.......................... 1,017,191 907,816 6,436
60354........................... KHOG-TV....................... 862,177 797,810 5,656
4144............................ KHON-TV....................... 1,016,508 944,271 6,695
34529........................... KHOU.......................... 7,289,635 7,287,991 51,672
4690............................ KHQA-TV....................... 308,541 308,333 2,186
34537........................... KHQ-TV........................ 938,773 887,184 6,290
30601........................... KHRR.......................... 1,298,625 1,241,818 8,804
34348........................... KHSD-TV....................... 203,077 199,032 1,411
24508........................... KHSL-TV....................... 634,956 615,388 4,363
69677........................... KHSV.......................... 2,384,812 2,343,597 16,616
64544........................... KHVO.......................... 101,138 99,980 709
23394........................... KIAH.......................... 7,307,171 7,306,816 51,805
34564........................... KICU-TV....................... 8,992,796 7,837,235 55,566
56028........................... KIDK.......................... 351,335 348,794 2,473
58560........................... KIDY.......................... 126,096 126,079 894
53382........................... KIEM-TV....................... 177,885 166,501 1,180
66258........................... KIFI-TV....................... 360,684 357,711 2,536
16950........................... KIFR.......................... 2,356,175 2,330,021 16,520
10188........................... KIII.......................... 580,363 577,602 4,095
29095........................... KIIN.......................... 1,405,103 1,375,871 9,755
34527........................... KIKU.......................... 1,017,227 920,837 6,529
63865........................... KILM.......................... 18,009,859 16,478,550 116,833
56033........................... KIMA-TV....................... 325,241 275,599 1,954
66402........................... KIMT.......................... 671,281 662,859 4,700
67089........................... KINC.......................... 2,320,873 2,230,933 15,817
34847........................... KING-TV....................... 4,735,386 4,686,752 33,229
51708........................... KINT-TV....................... 1,093,579 1,093,227 7,751
26249........................... KION-TV....................... 2,814,543 1,002,679 7,109
62427........................... KIPT.......................... 190,856 189,839 1,346
66781........................... KIRO-TV....................... 4,715,994 4,685,383 33,219
62430........................... KISU-TV....................... 358,145 353,319 2,505
12896........................... KITU-TV....................... 749,934 749,934 5,317
64548........................... KITV.......................... 1,016,508 890,101 6,311
59255........................... KIVI-TV....................... 864,257 856,996 6,076
47285........................... KIXE-TV....................... 484,629 444,405 3,151
13792........................... KJJC-TV....................... 85,813 84,995 603
14000........................... KJLA.......................... 18,944,109 17,650,447 125,142
20015........................... KJNP-TV....................... 96,266 96,001 681
53315........................... KJRE.......................... 15,414 15,394 109
59439........................... KJRH-TV....................... 1,475,194 1,458,401 10,340
55364........................... KJRR.......................... 45,707 44,148 313
7675............................ KJTL.......................... 365,659 365,242 2,590
55031........................... KJTV-TV....................... 433,372 432,694 3,068
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13814........................... KJUD.......................... 32,087 31,083 220
36607........................... KJZZ-TV....................... 2,837,622 2,620,561 18,580
776244.......................... KKAB.......................... 935,198 933,568 6,619
776230.......................... KKAC.......................... 128,739 128,719 913
776239.......................... KKAD.......................... 55,004 54,083 383
83180........................... KKAI.......................... 1,016,756 995,859 7,061
58267........................... KKAP.......................... 1,002,980 967,770 6,861
24766........................... KKCO.......................... 252,558 223,619 1,585
776228.......................... KKEL.......................... 8,625 8,430 60
35097........................... KKJB.......................... 780,452 775,264 5,497
22644........................... KKPX-TV....................... 8,265,775 7,324,470 51,930
35037........................... KKTV.......................... 3,340,505 2,899,502 20,557
35042........................... KLAS-TV....................... 2,421,827 2,256,225 15,997
52907........................... KLAX-TV....................... 350,490 350,144 2,483
3660............................ KLBK-TV....................... 409,551 409,512 2,903
65523........................... KLBY.......................... 29,875 29,852 212
38430........................... KLCS.......................... 17,868,933 16,310,676 115,643
77719........................... KLCW-TV....................... 404,384 404,369 2,867
51479........................... KLDO-TV....................... 267,717 267,717 1,898
37105........................... KLEI.......................... 149,648 122,977 872
56032........................... KLEW-TV....................... 173,816 158,086 1,121
35059........................... KLFY-TV....................... 1,380,417 1,379,775 9,783
54011........................... KLJB.......................... 1,003,676 992,763 7,039
11264........................... KLKN.......................... 1,295,353 1,249,913 8,862
52593........................... KLML.......................... 285,490 232,725 1,650
47975........................... KLNE-TV....................... 124,206 124,134 880
38590........................... KLPA-TV....................... 395,240 395,079 2,801
38588........................... KLPB-TV....................... 789,881 789,881 5,600
749............................. KLRN.......................... 2,865,059 2,843,302 20,159
11951........................... KLRT-TV....................... 1,206,848 1,187,015 8,416
8564............................ KLRU.......................... 3,404,331 3,364,831 23,857
8322............................ KLSR-TV....................... 617,791 555,511 3,939
31114........................... KLST.......................... 205,611 176,862 1,254
24436........................... KLTJ.......................... 7,239,268 7,239,082 51,325
38587........................... KLTL-TV....................... 438,847 438,847 3,111
38589........................... KLTM-TV....................... 670,083 665,283 4,717
38591........................... KLTS-TV....................... 930,704 927,650 6,577
68540........................... KLTV.......................... 1,125,646 1,108,403 7,859
12913........................... KLUJ-TV....................... 1,304,523 1,304,523 9,249
57220........................... KLUZ-TV....................... 1,122,002 1,061,683 7,527
11683........................... KLVX.......................... 2,368,176 2,246,657 15,929
82476........................... KLWB.......................... 1,066,369 1,066,248 7,560
40250........................... KLWY.......................... 652,057 648,301 4,596
64551........................... KMAU.......................... 230,508 205,410 1,456
51499........................... KMAX-TV....................... 11,771,919 7,828,092 55,501
65686........................... KMBC-TV....................... 2,690,459 2,688,812 19,064
35183........................... KMCB.......................... 77,018 70,797 502
41237........................... KMCC.......................... 2,384,330 2,325,062 16,485
42636........................... KMCI-TV....................... 2,611,447 2,610,077 18,505
38584........................... KMCT-TV....................... 270,862 270,855 1,920
22127........................... KMCY.......................... 80,761 80,722 572
162016.......................... KMDE.......................... 34,041 34,035 241
26428........................... KMEB.......................... 239,702 216,916 1,538
24753........................... KMEE-TV....................... 217,161 202,513 1,436
39665........................... KMEG.......................... 763,806 758,839 5,380
35123........................... KMEX-DT....................... 18,389,371 16,955,856 120,217
40875........................... KMGH-TV....................... 4,484,612 4,211,082 29,857
35131........................... KMID.......................... 453,896 453,890 3,218
16749........................... KMIR-TV....................... 3,014,399 805,795 5,713
63164........................... KMIZ.......................... 573,185 571,442 4,052
53541........................... KMLM-DT....................... 358,819 358,819 2,544
52046........................... KMLU.......................... 685,717 681,660 4,833
47981........................... KMNE-TV....................... 44,963 41,160 292
4326............................ KMOS-TV....................... 823,502 819,698 5,812
41425........................... KMOT.......................... 90,764 88,505 628
70034........................... KMOV.......................... 3,058,356 3,053,447 21,649
51488........................... KMPH-TV....................... 1,871,826 1,831,011 12,982
44052........................... KMSB.......................... 1,390,772 1,081,454 7,668
68883........................... KMSP-TV....................... 4,232,627 4,200,278 29,780
12525........................... KMSS-TV....................... 1,047,384 1,044,317 7,404
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43095........................... KMTP-TV....................... 9,007,762 8,012,556 56,809
35189........................... KMTR.......................... 858,621 737,863 5,231
35190........................... KMTV-TV....................... 1,482,627 1,481,213 10,502
77063........................... KMTW.......................... 782,241 782,233 5,546
35200........................... KMVT.......................... 203,865 194,642 1,380
32958........................... KMVU-DT....................... 333,344 255,430 1,811
86534........................... KMYA-DT....................... 181,750 181,710 1,288
51518........................... KMYS.......................... 2,695,906 2,689,444 19,068
54420........................... KMYT-TV....................... 1,378,264 1,366,926 9,692
35822........................... KMYU.......................... 174,066 170,667 1,210
993............................. KNAT-TV....................... 1,194,249 1,164,035 8,253
24749........................... KNAZ-TV....................... 370,644 251,297 1,782
47906........................... KNBC.......................... 18,007,954 16,466,286 116,746
81464........................... KNBN.......................... 158,327 149,470 1,060
9754............................ KNCT.......................... 2,162,813 2,134,345 15,133
82611........................... KNDB.......................... 140,901 140,846 999
82615........................... KNDM.......................... 81,669 81,636 579
12395........................... KNDO.......................... 326,624 291,816 2,069
12427........................... KNDU.......................... 531,985 514,613 3,649
17683........................... KNEP.......................... 96,311 91,722 650
776145.......................... KNGF.......................... 418,755 418,649 2,968
48003........................... KNHL.......................... 282,894 282,649 2,004
125710.......................... KNIC-DT....................... 2,916,877 2,900,176 20,562
59363........................... KNIN-TV....................... 861,563 857,065 6,077
48525........................... KNLC.......................... 3,009,669 3,007,124 21,321
84215........................... KNMD-TV....................... 1,175,472 1,147,431 8,135
55528........................... KNME-TV....................... 1,185,928 1,145,659 8,123
47707........................... KNMT.......................... 3,242,939 3,141,420 22,273
48975........................... KNOE-TV....................... 744,581 736,357 5,221
49273........................... KNOP-TV....................... 84,998 83,626 593
10228........................... KNPB.......................... 687,138 528,128 3,744
55362........................... KNRR.......................... 24,339 24,315 172
35277........................... KNSD.......................... 4,176,531 3,908,916 27,714
19191........................... KNSN-TV....................... 703,800 557,463 3,952
23302........................... KNSO.......................... 1,962,568 1,942,998 13,776
35280........................... KNTV.......................... 9,285,323 8,743,038 61,988
144............................. KNVA.......................... 3,326,171 3,285,676 23,295
33745........................... KNVN.......................... 497,887 470,307 3,334
69692........................... KNVO.......................... 1,359,785 1,359,785 9,641
29557........................... KNWA-TV....................... 935,156 915,507 6,491
59440........................... KNXV-TV....................... 4,839,106 4,825,470 34,213
59014........................... KOAA-TV....................... 1,865,217 1,422,070 10,082
50588........................... KOAB-TV....................... 254,424 250,749 1,778
50590........................... KOAC-TV....................... 2,168,640 1,718,555 12,185
58552........................... KOAM-TV....................... 822,738 789,385 5,597
53928........................... KOAT-TV....................... 1,171,605 1,145,416 8,121
35313........................... KOB........................... 1,189,849 1,152,270 8,170
35321........................... KOBF.......................... 198,225 163,241 1,157
8260............................ KOBI.......................... 595,619 551,251 3,908
62272........................... KOBR.......................... 227,347 226,868 1,608
50170........................... KOCB.......................... 1,803,171 1,802,139 12,777
4328............................ KOCE-TV....................... 18,212,242 17,141,918 121,536
84225........................... KOCM.......................... 1,615,493 1,614,922 11,450
12508........................... KOCO-TV....................... 1,890,246 1,881,152 13,337
83181........................... KOCW.......................... 80,292 80,262 569
18283........................... KODE-TV....................... 789,082 781,251 5,539
66195........................... KOED-TV....................... 1,555,369 1,523,164 10,799
50198........................... KOET.......................... 657,252 637,057 4,517
51189........................... KOFY-TV....................... 5,746,338 4,850,897 34,393
34859........................... KOGG.......................... 206,000 173,034 1,227
166534.......................... KOHD.......................... 248,737 244,163 1,731
35380........................... KOIN.......................... 3,398,786 3,237,691 22,955
35388........................... KOKH-TV....................... 1,800,124 1,797,602 12,745
11910........................... KOKI-TV....................... 1,428,477 1,415,308 10,035
48663........................... KOLD-TV....................... 1,278,430 932,536 6,612
7890............................ KOLN.......................... 1,565,175 1,465,478 10,390
63331........................... KOLO-TV....................... 1,045,027 912,343 6,469
28496........................... KOLR.......................... 1,111,540 1,075,340 7,624
21656........................... KOMO-TV....................... 4,798,742 4,748,599 33,668
65583........................... KOMU-TV....................... 560,878 559,926 3,970
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776087.......................... KONC.......................... 1,752,026 1,713,180 12,146
35396........................... KONG.......................... 4,651,055 4,627,490 32,809
60675........................... KOOD.......................... 107,949 107,840 765
50589........................... KOPB-TV....................... 3,433,002 3,231,453 22,911
2566............................ KOPX-TV....................... 1,674,969 1,674,820 11,874
64877........................... KORO.......................... 572,684 572,684 4,060
6865............................ KOSA-TV....................... 412,004 408,993 2,900
34347........................... KOTA-TV....................... 189,181 166,163 1,178
8284............................ KOTI.......................... 318,713 97,757 693
35434........................... KOTV-DT....................... 1,476,322 1,464,332 10,382
56550........................... KOVR.......................... 11,787,731 7,857,430 55,709
51101........................... KOZJ.......................... 431,452 429,469 3,045
51102........................... KOZK.......................... 876,101 867,569 6,151
3659............................ KOZL-TV....................... 1,026,947 999,396 7,086
35455........................... KPAX-TV....................... 224,598 210,969 1,496
67868........................... KPAZ-TV....................... 4,842,326 4,829,190 34,239
6124............................ KPBS.......................... 3,878,727 3,740,193 26,518
50044........................... KPBT-TV....................... 405,749 405,749 2,877
77452........................... KPCB-DT....................... 30,087 30,010 213
35460........................... KPDX.......................... 3,335,153 3,195,785 22,658
12524........................... KPEJ-TV....................... 439,758 439,752 3,118
41223........................... KPHO-TV....................... 4,847,036 4,823,456 34,198
61551........................... KPIC.......................... 162,187 108,923 772
86205........................... KPIF.......................... 294,133 287,132 2,036
25452........................... KPIX-TV....................... 8,939,616 8,011,243 56,800
58912........................... KPJK.......................... 8,580,033 7,562,337 53,617
166510.......................... KPJR-TV....................... 3,994,308 3,966,833 28,125
13994........................... KPLC.......................... 1,433,578 1,431,830 10,152
41964........................... KPLO-TV....................... 55,567 52,690 374
35417........................... KPLR-TV....................... 3,020,349 3,017,559 21,394
12144........................... KPMR.......................... 1,305,956 1,148,984 8,146
47973........................... KPNE-TV....................... 89,112 84,360 598
35486........................... KPNX.......................... 4,833,873 4,829,331 34,240
77512........................... KPNZ.......................... 2,843,405 2,620,343 18,578
73998........................... KPOB-TV....................... 131,017 130,539 926
26655........................... KPPX-TV....................... 4,839,734 4,825,175 34,210
53117........................... KPRC-TV....................... 7,306,242 7,305,940 51,799
48660........................... KPRY-TV....................... 42,882 42,790 303
61071........................... KPSD-TV....................... 19,034 17,986 128
53544........................... KPTB-DT....................... 351,156 349,137 2,475
81445........................... KPTF-DT....................... 83,380 83,378 591
77451........................... KPTH.......................... 709,738 706,066 5,006
51491........................... KPTM.......................... 1,544,022 1,542,684 10,938
33345........................... KPTS.......................... 849,715 845,613 5,995
50633........................... KPTV.......................... 3,367,478 3,193,457 22,642
82575........................... KPTW.......................... 93,904 86,230 611
1270............................ KPVI-DT....................... 301,761 295,401 2,094
58835........................... KPXB-TV....................... 7,268,859 7,268,534 51,534
68695........................... KPXC-TV....................... 3,953,241 3,922,814 27,813
68834........................... KPXD-TV....................... 7,851,329 7,849,492 55,653
33337........................... KPXE-TV....................... 2,621,434 2,620,523 18,580
5801............................ KPXG-TV....................... 3,396,167 3,240,309 22,974
81507........................... KPXJ.......................... 1,114,713 1,111,470 7,880
61173........................... KPXL-TV....................... 2,675,400 2,663,341 18,883
35907........................... KPXM-TV....................... 3,872,706 3,871,246 27,447
58978........................... KPXN-TV....................... 18,009,859 16,478,550 116,833
77483........................... KPXO-TV....................... 1,016,659 977,430 6,930
21156........................... KPXR-TV....................... 870,810 864,123 6,127
69619........................... KPYX.......................... 8,951,798 8,033,747 56,959
10242........................... KQCA.......................... 11,066,274 6,905,589 48,961
41430........................... KQCD-TV....................... 46,118 43,974 312
18287........................... KQCK.......................... 3,914,615 3,869,797 27,437
78322........................... KQCW-DT....................... 1,198,492 1,192,260 8,453
35525........................... KQDS-TV....................... 309,526 305,800 2,168
35500........................... KQED.......................... 8,924,403 7,934,659 56,257
35663........................... KQEH.......................... 8,924,403 7,934,659 56,257
8214............................ KQET.......................... 3,221,916 2,234,120 15,840
5471............................ KQIN.......................... 585,179 585,151 4,149
17686........................... KQME.......................... 203,177 198,383 1,407
61063........................... KQSD-TV....................... 32,060 31,225 221
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8378............................ KQSL.......................... 209,114 145,828 1,034
20427........................... KQTV.......................... 1,587,910 1,493,576 10,589
78921........................... KQUP.......................... 801,534 624,922 4,431
306............................. KRBC-TV....................... 237,068 236,992 1,680
166319.......................... KRBK.......................... 1,018,307 1,001,775 7,103
22161........................... KRCA.......................... 18,303,336 17,670,502 125,284
57945........................... KRCB.......................... 9,553,735 9,246,484 65,558
41110........................... KRCG.......................... 758,918 744,644 5,280
8291............................ KRCR-TV....................... 523,130 470,701 3,337
10192........................... KRCW-TV....................... 3,330,638 3,194,693 22,650
49134........................... KRDK-TV........
[…truncated; see source link]Indexed from Federal Register on September 14, 2026.
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