FCC compliance made easy
RadioPaperwork watches your Online Public Inspection File, drafts the records that come due, files them with the FCC once you approve, and confirms they landed.
- Every check is read from the FCC’s own public records
- Nothing is filed until someone at your station approves it
- No passwords or FCC credentials needed to monitor
Missing paperwork gets expensive
A $10,000 base fine
Missing or late public-file documents carry a $10,000 base forfeiture on the FCC's published penalty schedule.
A certification at renewal
Your license renewal asks you to certify the public file was kept complete, on time, for the whole term. The quarterly lists are the evidence.
Consent decrees, not warnings
Hundreds of stations entered consent decrees with the FCC over public-file lapses in the last renewal cycle, each with a compliance plan to run.
How it works
One less compliance task to keep in your head.
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Add your station
Search by call sign or Facility ID. Monitoring starts immediately, with no passwords, integrations, or FCC credentials.
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We monitor your station and email you when you need to take action
RadioPaperwork reads expected filings, folder activity, and upload timestamps straight from the FCC's public system. When a quarterly list or EEO report comes due, we prepare the document, starting from your own last filing rather than a blank page.
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We help fill out your required documents, you approve, we file
Read the document, then click file. We upload it to the right folder in your public file, re-read the FCC's records afterwards to confirm it is visible there, and tell you straight away if it is not.
Manage all your filings in one place
Answer the form, read the exact document, and file it.
What RadioPaperwork handles
Prepared and filed
- Quarterly issues and programs lists
- Annual EEO public-file reports
- Authorizations and licenses, supplied by you
- Political-file documents, supplied by you
Monitored nightly
- Quarterly issues/programs lists
- Annual EEO public-file reports
- Political-file activity
- Licenses and authorizations
- Filing history across every monitored station
Each check reports one of four results, on file, gap, review, or unknown, and says why rather than guessing. Political-file monitoring watches activity and staleness; it is not a determination that a station has met its political-file duty.
Records filed through the FCC's licensing system, including Form 396 and ownership reports, are outside what we file. We track those deadlines and tell you about them.
Pricing
Make sure you're covered.
$40.83 per station / month
billed $490 annually
- Records written for you when they come due
- Filed with the FCC once you approve them
- Confirmed landed, from the public records
- Nightly monitoring of the whole public file
FAQ
Yes, that is the point of it. We prepare the records that come due, you read and approve the exact document, and we upload it to your station’s Online Public Inspection File and confirm it landed. Nothing is ever filed without someone at your station approving it first.
The OPIF API access token from the entity’s Settings → Access Token page. It is a filing credential, not your station sign-in passcode, FRN, or CORES password. Regenerate that token to revoke the old one. Monitoring on its own needs no credentials at all.
Your station is. The FCC holds the licensee responsible for the contents of its public file and offers no safe harbor for using an outside service, which is why every document waits for your approval and why we keep a record of exactly what was approved, by whom, and when.
Because we go back and look. After filing, we re-read the FCC’s public records, the same records anyone inspecting your file would see, and confirm the document is in the right folder with the right date. If it has not appeared, we tell you immediately rather than letting a green checkmark stand in for evidence.
We prepare and file the two periodic records a station authors: quarterly issues and programs lists and annual EEO public-file reports. Political-file documents and authorizations are yours to supply, since they come from your sales system and from the FCC itself; upload the PDF and we file it into the right folder once you approve. Filings that go through the FCC’s licensing system, such as Form 396 and ownership reports, are not covered.
No automated service can make that legal determination. RadioPaperwork prepares records, files them once you approve, and shows the public-file evidence behind every check, so your team or counsel can review.
RadioPaperwork may flag the apparent gap for review, with the supporting evidence, so your team can determine whether the document exists elsewhere. The same check runs against our own filings, which is how we catch a document of ours that landed in the wrong place.
RadioPaperwork is intended for full-power AM, FM, and television stations, plus Class A television stations with Online Public Inspection File obligations.
Yes. Choose how many stations at checkout and pay for the group in one invoice, then add each station to your account. It is one account, $49 a station, and you can add or remove stations anytime.