Review of the Commission's Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 2026

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.

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,

Patrick.Brogan@fcc.gov

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

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-26-59A1.pdf.

To request materials in accessible formats for people with disabilities (Braille, large print, electronic files, audio format), send an email to

fcc504@fcc.gov

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

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,

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

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

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

Core bureau/office

FY 2025 FTE reallocations

Total # of

direct FY 2025 FTEs

with

FTE

reallocations

FY 2025% after reallocation

Total # of direct FY 2026 FTEs

without

FTE reallocations

FY 2026 FTE reallocations

Total # of

direct FY 2026 FTEs

with

proposed FTE

reallocations

FY 2026% after proposed

reallocations

Office of International Affairs (Submarine Cable and International Bearer Circuits)

0

8

1.80

8

+1 from OEA

+0 from OGC

Total additional FTEs +1

9

2.38

Space Bureau (Space and Earth Stations)

+1 from OEA

+1 from OGC

Total additional FTEs +2

51

11.50

44

+3 from OEA

+1 from OGC

Total additional FTEs +4

48

12.70

Wireless Telecommunications Bureau

+8 from OEA

+1 from OGC

+14 from PSHSB

Total additional FTEs +23

120

27.06

81

+8 from OEA

+0 from OGC

+13 from PSHSB

Total additional FTEs +21

102

26.99

Wireline Competition Bureau

+13 from OEA

+1 from OGC

+9 from PSHSB

Total additional FTEs +23

132.5

29.88

81.5

+17 from OEA

+1 from OGC

+8 from PSHSB

Total additional FTEs +26

107.5

28.45

Media Bureau

+7 from OEA

+1 from OGC

+7 from PSHSB

−2 from MB Reallocated as Indirect

Total additional FTEs +13

134

29.76

103

+2 from OEA

+2 from OGC

+6 from PSHSB

Total additional FTEs +10

113

29.48

Total

61

445.50

100

317.50

62

379.50

100

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

$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

Core bureau

FY 2025 FTE % with FTE reallocations

FY 2025 amount with FTE

reallocations

(millions)

FY 2025

Appropriation was $390.192

FY 2026 FTE % with adjusted FTE reallocations

FY 2026 amount with FTE

reallocations

(millions)

FY 2026

Appropriation

is $416.112

Wireline Bureau

29.88

$116.580

28.45

$118.363

Media Bureau

29.76

116.119

29.48

122.681

Media Bureau; subcategory Broadcasters

13.14

51.286

13.04

54.263

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

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.

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

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

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 Kinéis'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

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,

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,

https://www.fcc.gov/regfees.

64.

Payment Methods.

During the fee season for collecting regulatory fees, regulatees can pay their fees by credit card through

Pay.gov

, ACH, debit card, or by wire transfer. Additional payment instructions are posted on the Commission's website at

https://www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/fees/wire-transfer.

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

https://www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/fees/wire-transfer.

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:

•

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.

•

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 § 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.

•

Wireless Services:

Commercial Mobile Radio Service (CMRS) cellular,

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.

•

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.

•

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.

•

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.

•

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.

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]

Fee category

FY 2026

payment units

Years

FY 2025

revenue

estimate

($)

FY 2026

revenue

requirement

($)

Computed

FY 2026

regulatory

fee

($)

Rounded

FY 2026

regulatory

fee

($)

Expected

FY 2026

Rrevenue

($)

*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

(including Satellite TV)

3.498 billion population

1

23,412,392

24,801,183

0.007090

0.007090

24,800,820

Digital TV Construction Permits

2

1

1

41,600

5,300

5,300

5,300

5,300

LPTV/Class A/Translators FM Trans/Boosters

6,300

1

1,512,500

1,606,598

255

255

1,606,500

CARS Stations

105

1

194,500

205,336

1,956

1,955

205,275

Cable TV Systems, including IPTV & DBS

42,600,000

1

64,680,000

68,212,762

1.6012

1.60

68,160,000

Interstate Telecommunication Service Providers

$20,800,000,000

1

112,750,000

114,431,448

0.005502

0.005500

114,400,000

Toll Free Numbers

40,000,000

1

3,900,000

3,931,916

0.098298

0.10

4,000,000

CMRS Mobile Services (Cellular/Public Mobile)

637,500,000

1

98,352,000

103,662,178

0.1626

0.163

103,912,500

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 Circuits

Terrestrial (Common & Non-Common) & Satellite (Common & Non-Common)

36,000

1

364,000

495,475

13.76

14

504,000

Submarine Cable Providers (See chart at bottom of Appendix B)

4

88

1

6,686,863

9,414,016

106,977

106,975

9,413,800

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, Small Constellation)

23

1

8,628,220

10,153,028

441,436

441,435

10,153,005

Space Stations (Non-Geostationary, Large Constellation)

2

1

5,752,170

6,768,685

3,384,343

3,384,345

6,768,690

Space Stations (Non-Geostationary, Small Satellite)

23

1

271,260

334,014

14,522

14,520

333,960

* * ** * * Total Estimated Revenue to be Collected

391,734,169

416,940,000

417,186,925

* * ** * * Total Revenue Requirement

390,192,000

416,112,000

416,112,000

Difference

1,542,258

828,000

1,074,925

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.

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) (47 CFR part 90)

25.

*Microwave (per license) (47 CFR part 101)

25.

*Marine (Ship) (per station) (47 CFR part 80)

15.

*Marine (Coast) (per license) (47 CFR part 80)

40.

*Rural Radio (47 CFR part 22) (previously listed under the Land Mobile category)

10.

*PLMRS (Shared Use) (per license) (47 CFR part 90)

10.

*Aviation (Aircraft) (per station) (47 CFR part 87)

10.

*Aviation (Ground) (per license) (47 CFR part 87)

20.

CMRS Mobile/Cellular Services (per unit) (47 CFR parts 20, 22, 24, 27, 80 and 90) (Includes Non-Geographic telephone numbers)

0.163.

CMRS Messaging Services (per unit) (47 CFR parts 20, 22, 24 and 90)

0.08.

Broadband Radio Service (formerly MMDS/MDS) (per license) (47 CFR part 27)

800.

Local Multipoint Distribution Service (per call sign) (47 CFR, part 101)

800.

AM Radio Construction Permits

585.

FM Radio Construction Permits

1,025.

AM and FM Broadcast Radio Station Fees

See Table Below.

Digital TV (47 CFR part 73) VHF and UHF Commercial Fee Factor

See Appendix F for fee amounts due, also available at

https://www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/fees/regulatory-fees

0.007090.

Digital TV Construction Permits

5,300.

Low Power TV, Class A TV, TV/FM Translators & FM Boosters (47 CFR

part 74)

255.

CARS (47 CFR part 78)

1,955.

Cable Television Systems (per subscriber) (47 CFR part 76), Including IPTV and Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS)

1.60.

Interstate Telecommunication Service Providers (per revenue dollar)

0.0055.

Toll Free (per toll free subscriber) (47 CFR 52.101 (f) of the rules)

0.10.

Earth Stations: Transmit/Receive & Transmit only (per authorization or registration)

2,970.

Space Stations (per authorized station in geostationary orbit) (47 CFR part 25)

183,590.

Space Stations (per authorized system in non-geostationary orbit) (47 CFR part 25)—Small Constellation (fewer than 1000 authorized space stations)

441,435.

Space Stations (per authorized system in non-geostationary orbit) (47 CFR part 25)—Large Constellation (1000 or more authorized space stations)

3,384,345.

Space Stations (per license/call sign in non-geostationary orbit) (47 CFR part 25) (Small Satellite)

14,520.

International Bearer Circuits—Terrestrial/Satellites (per Gbps circuit)

14.

Submarine Cable Landing Licenses Fee (per cable system)

See Table Below.

FY 2026 Radio Station Regulatory Fees

Population

served

AM Class A

AM Class B

AM Class C

AM Class D

FM Classes

A, B1 & C3

FM Classes

B, C, C0, C1 & C2

<=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

FY 2026 International Bearer Circuits—Submarine Cable Systems

Submarine cable systems

(capacity as of December 31, 2025)

Fee ratio

FY 2026

regulatory

fees

Less than 50 Gbps

0.0625 Units

$6,685

50 Gbps or greater, but less than 250 Gbps

0.125 Units

13,370

250 Gbps or greater, but less than 1,500 Gbps

0.25 Units

26,745

1,500 Gbps or greater, but less than 3,500 Gbps

0.5 Units

53,490

3,500 Gbps or greater, but less than 6,500 Gbps

1.0 Unit

106,975

6,500 Gbps or greater

2.0 Units

213,955

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.

Fee category

Sources of payment unit estimates

Land Mobile (All), Microwave, Marine (Ship & Coast), Aviation (Aircraft & Ground), Domestic Public Fixed

Based on Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) information as well as prior year payment information. 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/UHF units)

Based on LMS data, fee rate adjusted 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, Class A Television

Based on LMS data, adjusted for exemptions, and actual FY 2025 payment units.

BRS (formerly MDS/MMDS)

LMDS

Based on WTB reports and actual FY 2025 payment units.

Based on WTB reports and actual FY 2025 payment units.

Cable Television Relay Service (CARS) Stations

Based on cable trend data, data from the Media Bureau's COALS database, and actual FY 2025 payment units.

Cable Television System Subscribers, Including IPTV Subscribers

Based on publicly available data sources for estimated subscriber counts, trend information from past payment data, and actual FY 2025 payment units.

Interstate Telecommunication Service Providers

Based on FCC Form 499-A worksheets 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.

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 §§ 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

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 Projects USA LLC

S3092

ARCTURUS

GSO.

2.

DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC

S2632

DIRECTV D8

GSO.

3.

DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC

S2640

DIRECTV D11

GSO.

4.

DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC

S2641

DIRECTV D10

GSO.

5.

DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC

S2669

DIRECTV D9S

GSO.

6.

DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC

S2673

DIRECTV D5

GSO.

7.

DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC

S2797

DIRECTV D12

GSO.

8.

DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC

S2869

DIRECTV D14

GSO.

9.

DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC

S2930

DIRECTV D15

GSO.

10.

DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC

S3039

DIRECTV D16

GSO.

11.

DISH Operating L.L.C.

S2694

ECHOSTAR 10

GSO.

12.

DISH Operating L.L.C.

S2738

ECHOSTAR 11

GSO.

13.

DISH Operating L.L.C.

S2790

ECHOSTAR 14

GSO.

14.

DISH Operating L.L.C.

S2931

ECHOSTAR 18

GSO.

15.

EchoStar Satellite Operating Corporation

S2811

ECHOSTAR 15

GSO.

16.

EchoStar Satellite Operating Corporation

S2844

ECHOSTAR 16

GSO.

17.

EchoStar Satellite Services L.L.C.

S2179

ECHOSTAR 9

GSO.

18.

EchoStar BSS Corp

S3093

ECHOSTAR 23

GSO.

19.

ES 172 LLC

S2610

EUTELSAT 174A

GSO.

20.

ES 172 LLC

S3021

EUTELSAT 172B

GSO.

21.

Horizon-3 Satellite LLC

S2947

HORIZONS-3e

GSO.

22.

Hughes Network Systems, LLC

S2753

ECHOSTAR XVII

GSO.

23

Hughes Network Systems, LLC

S2834

ECHOSTAR 19

GSO.

24.

Hughes Network Systems, LLC

S3017

ECHOSTAR 24 (JUPITER 3)

GSO.

25.

Intelsat License LLC/Viasat, Inc.

S2160

GALAXY 28

GSO.

26.

Intelsat License LLC

S2381

GALAXY 3C

GSO.

27.

Intelsat License LLC

S2382

INTELSAT 10

GSO.

28.

Intelsat License LLC

S2386

GALAXY 13/Horizons 1

GSO.

29.

Intelsat License LLC

S2406

INTELSAT 902

GSO.

30.

Intelsat License LLC

S2408

INTELSAT 904

GSO.

31.

Intelsat License LLC

S2409

INTELSAT 905

GSO.

32.

Intelsat License LLC

S2410

INTELSAT 906

GSO.

33.

Intelsat License LLC

S2414

INTELSAT 10-02

GSO.

34.

Intelsat License LLC

S2423

HORIZONS 2

GSO.

35.

Intelsat License LLC

S2647

GALAXY 19

GSO.

36.

Intelsat License LLC

S2687

GALAXY 16

GSO.

37.

Intelsat License LLC

S2715

GALAXY 17

GSO.

38.

Intelsat License LLC

S2733

GALAXY 18

GSO.

39.

Intelsat License LLC

S2750

INTELSAT 16

GSO.

40.

Intelsat License LLC

S2751

INTELSAT 28

GSO.

41.

Intelsat License LLC

S2785

INTELSAT 14

GSO.

42.

Intelsat License LLC

S2804

INTELSAT 25

GSO.

43.

Intelsat License LLC

S2817

INTELSAT 18

GSO.

44.

Intelsat License LLC

S2831

INTELSAT 23

GSO.

45.

Intelsat License LLC

S2846

INTELSAT 22

GSO.

46.

Intelsat License LLC

S2847

INTELSAT 20

GSO.

47.

Intelsat License LLC

S2850

INTELSAT 19

GSO.

48.

Intelsat License LLC

S2863

INTELSAT 21

GSO.

49.

Intelsat License LLC

S2789

INTELSAT 15

GSO.

50.

Intelsat License LLC

S2814

INTELSAT 17

GSO.

51.

Intelsat License LLC

S2887

INTELSAT 30

GSO.

52.

Intelsat License LLC

S2915

INTELSAT 34

GSO.

53.

Intelsat License LLC

S2924

INTELSAT 31

GSO.

54.

Intelsat License LLC

S2948

INTELSAT 36

GSO.

55.

Intelsat License LLC

S2959

INTELSAT 35e

GSO.

56.

Intelsat License LLC

S2972

INTELSAT 37e

GSO.

57.

Intelsat License LLC

S3015

GALAXY 33

GSO.

58.

Intelsat License LLC

S3016

GALAXY 30

GSO.

59.

Intelsat License LLC

S3023

INTELSAT 39

GSO.

60.

Intelsat License LLC

S3066

INTELSAT 40e

GSO.

61.

Intelsat License LLC

S3076

GALAXY 31

GSO.

62.

Intelsat License LLC

S3078

GALAXY 32

GSO.

63.

Intelsat License LLC

S3083

GALAXY 34

GSO.

64.

Intelsat License LLC

S3143

GALAXY 35

GSO.

65.

Intelsat License LLC

S3148

GALAXY 36

GSO.

66.

Intelsat License LLC

S3164

GALAXY 37

GSO.

67.

Ligado Networks Subsidiary, LLC

S2358

SKYTERRA-1

GSO.

68.

Novavision Group, Inc.

S2861

DIRECTV KU-79W

GSO.

69.

Open Plaza Corp./DIRECTV Latin America, LLC

S2922

SKY-B1

GSO.

70.

Satellite CD Radio LLC

S2812

FM-6

GSO.

71.

SES Americom, Inc.

S2162

AMC-3

GSO.

72.

SES Americom, Inc.

S2180

AMC-15

GSO.

73.

SES Americom, Inc.

S2347

AMC-6

GSO.

74.

SES Americom, Inc.

S2415

NSS-10

GSO.

75.

SES Americom, Inc.

S2826

SES-2

GSO.

76.

SES Americom, Inc.

S2807

SES-1

GSO.

77.

SES Americom, Inc.

S2892

SES-3

GSO.

78.

SES Americom, Inc.

S3097

SES-19

GSO.

79.

SES Americom, Inc.

S3138

SES-22

GSO.

80.

SES Americom, Inc.

S3096

SES-18

GSO.

81.

SES Americom, Inc.

S3098

SES-20

GSO.

82.

SES Americom, Inc.

S3099

SES-21

GSO.

83.

Silkwave Africa, LLC

S3074

AsiaStar

GSO.

84.

Sirius XM Radio Inc.

S2710

FM-5

GSO.

85.

Sirius XM Radio Inc.

S3033

SXM-7

GSO.

86.

Sirius XM Radio Inc.

S3034

SXM-8

GSO.

87.

Sirius XM Radio Inc.

S3166

SXM-9

GSO.

88.

Sirius XM Radio Inc.

S3167

SXM-10

GSO.

89.

Skynet Satellite Corp.

S2933

TELSTAR 12V

GSO.

90.

Skynet Satellite Corporation

S2357

TELSTAR 11N

GSO.

91.

Telesat Canada

S2433

ANIK F4 (AMC-11)

GSO.

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.

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 Lt.

S3130

HYLAS-4

GSO.

97.

DBSD Services Ltd

S2651

DBSD G1

GSO.

98.

Embratel TVSAT Telecomunicacoes S.A

S3142

Star One D2

GSO.

99.

Embratel TVSAT Telecomunicacoes S.A

S3192

Star One C4

GSO.

100.

Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales S.A

S2956

ARSAT-2

GSO.

101.

Embratel Tvsat Telecommunicacoes S.A

S2678

STAR ONE C2

GSO.

102.

Embratel Tvsat Telecommunicacoes S.A

S2845

STAR ONE C3

GSO.

103.

Eutelsat do Brasil Ltda

S3226

EUTELSAT 65 West A

GSO.

104.

Eutelsat S.A

S3055

EUTELSAT 139 WEST A

GSO.

105.

Eutelsat S.A

S3056

EUTELSAT 8 WEST B

GSO.

106.

Gamma Acquisition L.L.C

S2633

TerreStar 1

GSO.

107.

Hispamar Satélites, S.A

S2886

AMAZONAS-3

GSO.

108.

Hispamar Satélites, S.A

S3086

AMAZONAS NEXUS

GSO.

109.

Hispasat, S.A

S2969

HISPASAT 30W-6

GSO.

110.

Horizons-4 Satellite LLC

S3180

Horizon-4

GSO.

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 Satellites B.V

S2756

NSS-9

GSO.

115.

New Skies Satellites B.V

S2828

SES-4

GSO.

116.

New Skies Satellites B.V

S2870

SES-6

GSO.

117.

New Skies Satellites B.V

S2950

SES-10

GSO.

118.

Satelites Mexicanos, S.A. de C.V

S2873

EUTELSAT 117 WEST A

GSO.

119.

Satelites Mexicanos, S.A. de C.V

S2926

EUTELSAT 117 WEST B

GSO.

120.

Satelites Mexicanos, S.A. de C.V

S2938

EUTELSAT 115 WEST B

GSO.

121.

SES Satellites (Gibraltar) Ltd

S2676

AMC 21

GSO.

122.

SES Satellites (Gibraltar) Ltd

S2951

SES-15

GSO.

123.

SES Americom, Inc

S2964

SES-11

GSO.

124.

SES Americom, Inc

S3037

NSS-11

GSO.

125.

SES DTH do Brasil Ltda

S2974

SES-14

GSO.

126.

SES-17 S.a.r.l

S3043

SES-17

GSO.

127.

Spacing Guild UK Limited

S3150

NuView Bravo

GSO.

128.

Spacing Guild UK Limited

S3151

NuView Alpha

GSO.

129.

Telesat Brasil Capacidade de Satelites Ltda

S2821

ESTRELA DO SUL 2

GSO.

130.

Telesat Canada

S2674

ANIK F1R

GSO.

131.

Telesat Canada

S2703

ANIK F3

GSO.

132.

Telesat Canada

S2472

ANIK F2

GSO.

133.

Telesat International Ltd

S2955

TELSTAR 19 VANTAGE

GSO.

134.

Viasat, Inc

S2902

VIASAT-2

GSO.

Space Stations (Geostationary Orbit): Non-U.S.-Licensed Space Stations—Market Access Through Earth Station Licenses

ITU or operator name

(if available)

Call sign

Common name

Type

135.

AUSSAT B 152E

M221170

OPTUS D2

GSO.

136.

Ciel Satellite Group

E050029

Ciel-2

GSO.

137.

Ciel Satellite Group

E140100

Ciel-6i

GSO.

138.

QuetzSat, S.de R.L. de C.V

E090020

Quetzsat-1

GSO.

139.

Eutelsat 65 West A

E160081

Eutelsat 65 West A

GSO.

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 Holdings

M161190

APSTAR 6C

GSO.

146.

APT Satellite Holdings

M246190

APSTAR 6D

GSO.

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 Solutions Inc

S3072

YAM-3

Small Satellite.

9.

Loft Orbital Solutions Inc

S3147

YAM-5

Small Satellite.

10.

Loft Orbital Solutions, Inc

S3170

YAM-6

Small Satellite.

11.

Loft Orbital Solutions, Inc

S3184

YAM-7

Small Satellite.

12.

Loft Orbital Solutions, Inc

S3199

YAM-8

Small Satellite.

13.

Loft Orbital Solutions, Inc

S3227

YAM-9

Small Satellite.

14.

Lynk Global, Inc

S3087

Lynk Towers

Small Satellite.

15.

Space Logistics, LLC

S2990

Mission Extension Vehicle-1

RPO/OOS.

16.

Space Logistics, LLC

S3059

Mission Extension Vehicle-2

RPO/OOS.

17.

Space Sciences & Engineering LLC

S3153

GNOMES-4

Small Satellite.

18.

Space Sciences & Engineering LLC

S3185

GNOMES-5

Small Satellite.

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 Constellation

Small Satellite.

23.

Umbra Lab Inc

S3186

Umbra Block 2.1 SAR Constellation

Small Satellite.

24.

Xona Space Systems, Inc

S3215

IOV

Small Satellite.

25.

XPLORE, Inc

S3193

XCUBE-1

Small Satellite.

Space Stations (Non-Geostationary Orbit)—Small Constellations

Licensee/grantee

Call sign

Satellite/system name

Authorized

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, Acadia-5, Acadia-6

4

5.

Globalstar License LLC

S2115

GLOBALSTAR

96

6.

Hawkeye 360

S3042

HE360

174

7.

Iridium Constellation LLC

S2110

IRIDIUM

99

8.

Kepler Communications, Inc

S2981

KEPLER

140

9.

Kineis

S3054

KINEIS

25

10.

Loft Orbital Solutions, Inc

S3181

YAC-1

10

11.

Maxar License, Inc., DG Consents Sub, Inc

S2129/S2348

WorldView 1, 2 & 3, GeoEye-1, Worldview Legion

15

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/Tanager 2

578

18.

Pixxel Space Technologies, Inc

S3200

FLYY

3

19.

Sidus Space, Inc

S3175

LizzieSat-2, LizzieSat-3, LizzieSat-4, LizzieSat-5

4

20.

Sierra Nevada Company, LLC

S3214

Vindler Constellation

3

21.

Space Norway AS

S2978

ARCTIC SATELLITE BROADBAND MISSION

2

22.

Spire Global, Inc

S3213/S3045/S3182

LEMUR-4 & MINAS & HUBBLE

175

23.

Telesat LEO Inc

S2976

TELESAT Ku/Ka-Band

117

24.

The Tomorrow Companies, Inc

S3156

Tomorrow.io Weather Constellation

4

25.

WorldVu Satellites Ltd

S2963

ONEWEB Ku-/Ka-/V-BAND

716

Space Stations (Non-Geostationary)—Large Constellations

Licensee/grantee

Call sign

Satellite/

system name

Authorized

stations

1.

Kuiper Systems LLC

S3051

KUIPER

3,232

2.

Space Exploration Holdings, LLC

S2983/S3018/S2992/S3069/S3041

SPACEX/Ku-/Ka-/V-band/Gen 2/Swarm

19.408

Table 8—FY 2026 Full-Service Broadcast Television Stations By Call Sign

Facility Id

Call sign

Service area

population

Terrain-limited

population

Terrain-limited

fee 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

396,418

396,379

2,810

52579

KRDO-TV

3,041,472

2,649,733

18,787

70578

KREG-TV

159,270

97,419

691

34868

KREM

935,162

865,664

6,138

51493

KREN-TV

890,359

755,865

5,359

70596

KREX-TV

154,968

154,745

1,097

70579

KREY-TV

77,765

69,062

490

48589

KREZ-TV

148,142

101,846

722

43328

KRGV-TV

1,364,680

1,364,370

9,673

82698

KRII

130,753

129,582

919

29114

KRIN

989,720

976,875

6,926

25559

KRIS-TV

576,145

576,104

4,085

22204

KRIV

7,295,333

7,294,571

51,719

14040

KRMA-TV

4,385,284

4,186,932

29,685

14042

KRMJ

184,799

169,573

1,202

20476

KRMT

3,457,214

3,353,993

23,780

84224

KRMU

86,743

70,549

500

20373

KRMZ

37,319

34,727

246

47971

KRNE-TV

45,930

38,258

271

60307

KRNV-DT

1,043,407

879,554

6,236

65526

KRON-TV

9,335,037

8,729,878

61,895

53539

KRPV-DT

65,504

65,504

464

48575

KRQE

1,174,664

1,143,133

8,105

57431

KRSU-TV

1,078,345

1,076,370

7,631

82613

KRTN-TV

86,907

67,161

476

35567

KRTV

95,862

94,385

669

84157

KRWB-TV

118,050

117,368

832

35585

KRWF

82,308

82,308

584

55516

KRWG-TV

929,122

719,343

5,100

48360

KRXI-TV

802,294

612,918

4,346

307

KSAN-TV

142,667

142,664

1,011

11911

KSAS-TV

773,161

773,144

5,482

53118

KSAT-TV

3,075,254

3,027,321

21,464

35584

KSAX

380,811

380,811

2,700

35587

KSAZ-TV

4,854,767

4,831,287

34,254

38214

KSBI

1,751,439

1,749,811

12,406

19653

KSBW

5,564,606

4,838,506

34,305

19654

KSBY

564,561

526,110

3,730

82910

KSCC

534,707

534,707

3,791

10202

KSCE

1,093,223

1,089,485

7,724

35608

KSCI

18,212,242

17,141,918

121,536

26231

KSCN-TV

18,512,098

18,476,669

131,000

72348

KSCW-DT

927,681

922,979

6,544

46981

KSDK

3,013,779

3,007,368

21,322

35594

KSEE

1,888,344

1,874,494

13,290

29121

KSFL-TV

328,842

328,837

2,331

48658

KSFY-TV

731,978

677,603

4,804

17680

KSGW-TV

63,725

62,410

442

59444

KSHB-TV

2,616,078

2,614,543

18,537

73706

KSHV-TV

927,614

927,074

6,573

29096

KSIN-TV

349,020

347,636

2,465

34846

KSIX-TV

79,019

79,019

560

35606

KSKN

841,494

741,761

5,259

70482

KSLA

998,682

998,217

7,077

6359

KSL-TV

2,839,353

2,616,980

18,554

71558

KSMN

357,081

357,075

2,532

33336

KSMO-TV

2,585,699

2,584,094

18,321

28510

KSMQ-TV

540,217

524,751

3,720

35611

KSMS-TV

1,684,095

922,727

6,542

21161

KSNB-TV

748,097

747,971

5,303

72359

KSNC

166,315

165,997

1,177

67766

KSNF

640,722

637,167

4,518

72361

KSNG

143,267

143,050

1,014

72362

KSNK

46,872

43,725

310

67335

KSNT

657,321

629,824

4,465

10179

KSNV

2,283,885

2,225,135

15,776

72358

KSNW

810,301

809,927

5,742

61956

KSPS-TV

935,711

883,159

6,262

52953

KSPX-TV

7,814,495

5,846,886

41,454

166546

KSQA

391,323

383,112

2,716

53313

KSRE

83,984

83,984

595

35843

KSTC-TV

4,228,163

4,218,565

29,910

63182

KSTF

49,439

49,305

350

28010

KSTP-TV

4,230,921

4,222,032

29,934

60534

KSTR-DT

7,934,842

7,931,770

56,236

64987

KSTS

9,125,502

7,902,723

56,030

22215

KSTU

2,834,133

2,604,938

18,469

23428

KSTW

4,945,092

4,849,973

34,386

5243

KSVI

192,678

191,712

1,359

58827

KSWB-TV

3,976,536

3,773,857

26,757

60683

KSWK

78,448

78,334

555

35645

KSWO-TV

461,432

437,725

3,103

776219

KSWY

40,578

36,197

257

61350

KSYS

551,328

475,899

3,374

59988

KTAB-TV

281,813

281,579

1,996

999

KTAJ-TV

2,529,426

2,528,757

17,929

35648

KTAL-TV

1,072,280

1,070,439

7,589

12930

KTAS

501,069

491,644

3,486

81458

KTAZ

4,835,851

4,811,877

34,116

35649

KTBC

4,138,493

3,857,454

27,349

67884

KTBN-TV

18,729,484

17,423,297

123,531

67999

KTBO-TV

1,758,274

1,756,813

12,456

35652

KTBS-TV

1,138,628

1,135,638

8,052

28324

KTBU

7,233,338

7,232,807

51,281

67950

KTBW-TV

4,873,117

4,763,879

33,776

35655

KTBY

360,565

358,722

2,543

68594

KTCA-TV

4,022,616

4,008,908

28,423

68597

KTCI-TV

3,912,137

3,908,528

27,711

35187

KTCW

106,581

93,009

659

36916

KTDO

1,093,374

1,089,602

7,725

2769

KTEJ

417,496

415,013

2,942

83707

KTEL-TV

61,338

61,328

435

35666

KTEN

629,981

627,687

4,450

24514

KTFD-TV

3,767,471

3,727,523

26,428

35512

KTFF-DT

2,403,821

2,383,063

16,896

20871

KTFK-DT

7,705,367

5,721,312

40,564

68753

KTFN

1,095,022

1,091,962

7,742

35084

KTFQ-TV

1,188,205

1,154,792

8,187

29232

KTGM

153,836

153,653

1,089

2787

KTHV

1,302,388

1,276,430

9,050

29100

KTIN

275,295

273,715

1,941

66170

KTIV

806,217

800,304

5,674

49397

KTKA-TV

805,221

786,518

5,576

35670

KTLA

18,962,616

17,555,224

124,467

62354

KTLM

1,148,738

1,148,738

8,145

49153

KTLN-TV

5,867,943

5,221,797

37,023

64984

KTMD

7,304,022

7,303,795

51,784

14675

KTMF

203,121

182,458

1,294

10177

KTMW

2,690,440

2,543,730

18,035

21533

KTNC-TV

9,007,762

8,012,556

56,809

47996

KTNE-TV

95,310

90,746

643

60519

KTNL-TV

8,275

8,274

59

74100

KTNV-TV

2,422,112

2,249,532

15,949

71023

KTNW

512,412

493,366

3,498

8651

KTOO-TV

32,198

32,017

227

7078

KTPX-TV

1,138,473

1,136,085

8,055

68541

KTRE

438,137

420,563

2,982

35675

KTRK-TV

7,318,272

7,316,846

51,876

28230

KTRV-TV

869,223

861,267

6,106

69170

KTSC

3,598,645

3,397,164

24,086

61066

KTSD-TV

84,807

83,980

595

37511

KTSF

8,697,794

7,750,134

54,948

67760

KTSM-TV

1,093,389

1,090,716

7,733

35678

KTTC

836,828

748,435

5,306

28501

KTTM

77,930

75,368

534

11908

KTTU-TV

1,393,795

1,109,962

7,870

22208

KTTV

18,130,338

17,373,502

123,178

28521

KTTW

381,013

377,833

2,679

65355

KTTZ-TV

402,714

402,692

2,855

35685

KTUL

1,573,310

1,543,051

10,940

10173

KTUU-TV

397,237

395,237

2,802

77480

KTUZ-TV

1,841,616

1,840,457

13,049

49632

KTVA

354,313

354,089

2,510

34858

KTVB

869,177

862,056

6,112

31437

KTVC

140,329

104,355

740

68581

KTVD

4,468,718

4,179,057

29,630

35692

KTVE

607,145

606,961

4,303

49621

KTVF

96,106

95,973

680

5290

KTVH-DT

241,887

181,640

1,288

35693

KTVI

3,025,572

3,022,219

21,428

40993

KTVK

4,837,443

4,825,882

34,216

22570

KTVL

476,591

388,139

2,752

18066

KTVM-TV

294,105

208,697

1,480

59139

KTVN

1,043,407

885,756

6,280

21251

KTVO

220,732

220,235

1,561

35694

KTVQ

193,122

188,064

1,333

50592

KTVR

153,040

56,934

404

23422

KTVT

8,233,312

8,230,812

58,356

35703

KTVU

9,036,813

8,056,602

57,121

35705

KTVW-DT

4,827,096

4,809,796

34,101

68889

KTVX

2,838,210

2,602,217

18,450

55907

KTVZ

249,013

246,030

1,744

18286

KTWO-TV

84,574

84,044

596

70938

KTWU

1,834,018

1,697,183

12,033

51517

KTXA

8,210,642

8,208,172

58,196

42359

KTXD-TV

8,012,541

8,010,333

56,793

51569

KTXH

7,302,378

7,301,602

51,768

10205

KTXL

9,145,873

6,451,158

45,739

308

KTXS-TV

269,545

267,328

1,895

69315

KUAC-TV

96,544

96,043

681

51233

KUAM-TV

153,836

153,836

1,091

2722

KUAS-TV

1,060,599

1,041,636

7,385

2731

KUAT-TV

1,596,429

1,361,399

9,652

60520

KUBD

15,387

13,666

97

70492

KUBE-TV

7,297,882

7,297,596

51,740

1136

KUCW

2,837,693

2,601,359

18,444

69396

KUED

2,837,687

2,603,895

18,462

69582

KUEN

2,806,982

2,580,258

18,294

82576

KUES

32,094

26,754

190

82585

KUEW

174,491

162,588

1,153

66611

KUFM-TV

203,395

180,333

1,279

169028

KUGF-TV

89,762

89,455

634

68717

KUHM-TV

166,592

156,454

1,109

69269

KUHT

7,288,782

7,288,082

51,673

62382

KUID-TV

482,761

308,950

2,190

169027

KUKL-TV

140,626

131,415

932

35724

KULR-TV

194,552

186,663

1,323

41429

KUMV-TV

70,878

70,314

499

81447

KUNP

133,781

45,006

319

4624

KUNS-TV

4,682,176

4,668,774

33,102

86532

KUOK

28,807

28,738

204

66589

KUON-TV

1,516,440

1,502,853

10,655

86263

KUPB

386,448

386,448

2,740

65535

KUPK

147,290

146,174

1,036

27431

KUPT

101,334

101,329

718

89714

KUPU

1,019,651

1,010,979

7,168

57884

KUPX-TV

2,824,302

2,598,543

18,424

23074

KUSA

4,470,580

4,195,376

29,745

61072

KUSD-TV

519,419

519,181

3,681

10238

KUSI-TV

3,853,072

3,707,454

26,286

43567

KUSM-TV

155,558

140,071

993

69694

KUTF

1,357,824

1,164,486

8,256

81451

KUTH-DT

2,636,456

2,416,549

17,133

68886

KUTP

4,842,720

4,823,413

34,198

35823

KUTV

2,837,398

2,601,168

18,442

63927

KUVE-DT

1,370,137

1,024,072

7,261

7700

KUVI-DT

1,287,700

1,076,164

7,630

35841

KUVN-DT

7,987,884

7,986,084

56,621

58609

KUVS-DT

4,496,875

4,458,448

31,610

49766

KVAL-TV

1,113,777

992,676

7,038

32621

KVAW

58,052

58,052

412

58795

KVCR-DT

19,073,599

18,308,953

129,810

35846

KVCT

291,432

290,038

2,056

10195

KVCW

2,283,670

2,224,688

15,773

64969

KVDA

3,114,838

3,092,933

21,929

19783

KVEA

18,300,497

17,059,098

120,949

12523

KVEO-TV

1,357,022

1,356,984

9,621

2495

KVEW

537,519

524,246

3,717

35852

KVHP

773,592

773,545

5,484

49832

KVIA-TV

1,093,416

1,090,743

7,733

35855

KVIE

11,759,390

8,232,137

58,366

40450

KVIH-TV

139,435

119,247

845

40446

KVII-TV

392,629

391,979

2,779

61961

KVLY-TV

409,018

408,931

2,899

16729

KVMD

15,940,782

15,143,297

107,366

83825

KVME-TV

26,212

22,277

158

25735

KVOA

1,386,793

1,069,725

7,584

35862

KVOS-TV

2,566,816

2,493,670

17,680

69733

KVPT

1,854,771

1,828,301

12,963

55372

KVRR

403,075

403,075

2,858

166331

KVSN-DT

3,136,196

2,698,298

19,131

608

KVTH-DT

319,985

318,374

2,257

2784

KVTJ-DT

1,459,963

1,459,552

10,348

607

KVTN-DT

970,045

963,130

6,829

35867

KVUE

3,458,312

3,395,187

24,072

78910

KVUI

286,007

279,513

1,982

35870

KVVU-TV

2,369,125

2,246,682

15,929

36170

KVYE

404,453

401,890

2,849

776246

KWAL

202,934

167,016

1,184

35095

KWBA-TV

1,194,062

1,136,172

8,055

78314

KWBM

694,164

676,716

4,798

27425

KWBN

1,016,508

893,029

6,332

76268

KWBQ

1,186,772

1,147,638

8,137

66413

KWCH-DT

897,522

896,232

6,354

71549

KWCM-TV

253,609

245,441

1,740

35419

KWDK

4,867,196

4,778,196

33,877

42007

KWES-TV

506,963

506,675

3,592

50194

KWET

125,090

109,790

778

35881

KWEX-DT

2,871,330

2,864,298

20,308

35883

KWGN-TV

4,368,605

4,155,087

29,460

37099

KWHB

1,056,520

1,056,118

7,488

36846

KWHE

1,015,533

885,013

6,275

56384

KWHY

18,512,098

18,476,669

131,000

35096

KWKB

1,167,302

1,156,465

8,199

162115

KWKS

38,196

37,876

269

12522

KWKT-TV

1,631,788

1,626,721

11,533

21162

KWNB-TV

87,130

85,538

606

776269

KWNV

18,419

17,701

126

67347

KWOG

634,387

615,024

4,361

56852

KWPX-TV

4,985,717

4,873,427

34,553

6885

KWQC-TV

1,082,087

1,072,789

7,606

53318

KWSE

85,141

83,532

592

71024

KWSU-TV

824,342

528,984

3,750

25382

KWTV-DT

1,801,405

1,800,115

12,763

35903

KWTX-TV

2,532,542

2,418,595

17,148

593

KWWL

1,127,596

1,116,266

7,914

84410

KWWT

358,813

358,813

2,544

14674

KWYB

91,657

72,951

517

10032

KWYP-DT

163,309

143,265

1,016

35920

KXAN-TV

3,476,567

3,408,238

24,164

49330

KXAS-TV

8,080,362

8,077,819

57,272

24287

KXGN-TV

14,265

13,906

99

37103

KXHI

105,022

101,614

720

35954

KXII

2,904,223

2,845,456

20,174

55083

KXLA

18,944,109

17,650,447

125,142

35959

KXLF-TV

301,370

256,892

1,821

53847

KXLN-DT

7,293,696

7,293,476

51,711

35906

KXLT-TV

369,632

369,086

2,617

61978

KXLY-TV

884,722

852,475

6,044

55684

KXMA-TV

42,033

41,964

298

55686

KXMB-TV

164,736

160,794

1,140

55685

KXMC-TV

108,096

100,774

714

55683

KXMD-TV

66,215

66,107

469

47995

KXNE-TV

314,798

313,705

2,224

81593

KXNW

707,066

702,866

4,983

35991

KXRM-TV

2,129,262

1,769,815

12,548

1255

KXTF

157,622

157,168

1,114

25048

KXTV

11,761,085

8,212,854

58,229

35994

KXTX-TV

8,029,815

8,026,902

56,911

62293

KXVA

195,284

195,242

1,384

23277

KXVO

1,535,792

1,534,836

10,882

9781

KXXV

2,192,443

2,159,450

15,311

31870

KYAZ

7,295,634

7,295,425

51,725

29086

KYIN

596,722

594,616

4,216

60384

KYLE-TV

367,648

367,562

2,606

33639

KYMA-DT

403,372

400,541

2,840

47974

KYNE-TV

1,089,692

1,089,546

7,725

53820

KYOU-TV

679,167

668,722

4,741

36003

KYTV

1,129,940

1,117,420

7,923

55644

KYTX

956,234

955,262

6,773

13815

KYUR

397,084

395,055

2,801

5237

KYUS-TV

12,525

12,495

89

33752

KYVE

317,640

273,973

1,942

55762

KYVV-TV

51,859

51,856

368

25453

KYW-TV

11,769,848

11,559,783

81,959

69531

KZJL

7,255,731

7,255,494

51,441

69571

KZJO

4,814,396

4,758,120

33,735

61062

KZSD-TV

40,148

34,607

245

33079

KZTV

578,385

575,560

4,081

57292

WAAY-TV

1,644,869

1,570,146

11,132

1328

WABC-TV

22,259,872

21,880,695

155,134

4190

WABE-TV

6,138,218

6,116,631

43,367

43203

WABG-TV

352,521

352,047

2,496

17005

WABI-TV

532,053

512,796

3,636

16820

WABM

1,857,082

1,825,082

12,940

23917

WABW-TV

1,106,011

1,104,788

7,833

19199

WACH

1,448,991

1,442,358

10,226

189358

WACP

9,884,531

9,777,819

69,325

23930

WACS-TV

785,954

782,957

5,551

60018

WACX

5,173,569

5,164,028

36,613

361

WACY-TV

992,148

991,650

7,031

455

WADL

4,727,529

4,719,528

33,461

589

WAFB

1,928,550

1,927,924

13,669

591

WAFF

1,642,889

1,574,162

11,161

70689

WAGA-TV

6,879,310

6,793,067

48,163

48305

WAGM-TV

60,320

59,087

419

37809

WAGV

1,267,813

1,122,725

7,960

706

W

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