Form FCC Form 395-B FCC Form 395-B Broadcast Station Annual Employment Report

Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D. C. 20554

Approved by OMB
3060-0390

INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETION OF FCC FORM 395-B
BROADCAST STATION ANNUAL EMPLOYMENT REPORT
1.

Who Must File
All licensees and permittees of commercial and
noncommercial AM, FM, LPTV, TV and international
BROADCAST stations.

2.

Facility ID Number.
Radio and TV Facility ID
Numbers can be obtained at the FCC's Internet Website
at www.fcc.gov/mmb/asd/seacall.html or by calling:
Radio - 202-418-2730, TV - 202-418-1600. Further, the
Facility ID Number is now included on all Radio and TV
authorizations and postcards.

7.

Race/Ethnic Categories

What Information Must Be Filed
a.

b.

3.

6.

If the filing concerns a particular reporting unit (see
item 5 below) which had fewer than 5 full-time
employees during the selected payroll period (see
item 4 below), (a) so indicate in Section III of the
form; (b) provide the pertinent identifying
information asked for in Sections I and II; and (c)
complete and sign the certification statement in
Section IV of the form. Do not provide the
substantive information (statistical data) asked for in
Sections V-A and V-B.
If the filing concerns a particular reporting unit
which had 5 or more full-time employees during the
selected payroll period, (a) provide the pertinent
identifying information asked for in Sections I and
II, and all information asked for in Sections III, V-A,
and V-B; and (b) complete and sign the certification
statement in Section IV.

Reporting Period

8.

The employment data filed on FCC Form 395-B must
reflect the employment figures from any one payroll
period in July, August or September. The same payroll
period should be used in each year's report.
5.

White, not of Hispanic Origin - A person having
origins in any of the original peoples of Europe,
North Africa, or the Middle East.

b.

Black, not of Hispanic Origin - A person having
origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.

c.

Hispanic - A person of Mexican, Puerto Rican,
Cuban, Central or South American or other Spanish
Culture or origin, regardless of race.

d.

Asian or Pacific Islander - A person having origins
in any of the original peoples of the Far East,
Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, or the
Pacific Islands. This area includes, for example,
China, Japan, Korea, the Philippine Islands, and
Samoa.

e.

American Indian or Alaskan Native - A person
having origins in any of the original peoples of
North America, and who maintains cultural
identification through tribal affiliation or community
recognition.

When and Where to File
Send TWO copies of each Annual Employment Report
required under these instructions to the Federal
Communications Commission, 445 12th Street, S.W.,
Room TW-B204, Washington, D. C. 20554, no later
than September 30 of each year.

4.

a.

Reporting Units
The employment data filed on FCC Form 395-B may be
filed in duplicate:

Job Categories
The following "job category definitions" are provided for
your guidance and may be used in completing FCC Form
395-B. A person is to be listed in the job category which
represents the work primarily done by that person; a
person is to be listed only once. Specific job titles below
are not all inclusive or rigid. The proper categorization
of any employee depends on the kind and level of the
employee's responsibilities.
a.

Officials and Managers - Occupations requiring
administrative personnel who set broad policies,
exercise overall responsibility for execution of these
policies, and direct individual departments or special
phases of a firm's operations. Includes: presidents
and other corporate officers, general managers,
station managers, controllers, chief accountants,
general counsels, chief engineers, facilities
managers, sales managers, business managers,
promotion directors, research directors, personnel
managers, news directors, operations managers, and
production managers.

b.

Professionals - Occupations requiring either college
graduation or experience of such a kind and amount
as to provide a comparable background. Includes:

For each combined report.
Licensees must file
employment data on FCC Form 395-B on a combined
report. Specifically, licensees must file one Form 395-B
for all commonly owned stations in the same market that
share at least one employee.
For each Headquarters Office of a multiple station
owner. Report on a separate Form 395-B, those
employees whose primary duties lie in the operation of
the individual stations. (A separate Form 395-B need not
be filed to cover headquarters employees whose duties
relate to the operation of a station covered in a combined
Report, described above, if all such employees are
included in such combined Report).

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instruction to learn a trade or craft which is
traditionally
considered
an
apprenticeship,
regardless of whether the program is registered with
a Federal or State agency.)

on-air personnel, correspondents, producers, writers,
editors, researchers, designers, artists, musicians,
dancers, accountants, attorneys, nurses, publicists,
film buyers, rating and research analysts, systems
analysts and programmers, financial analysts, stage
managers, cinema photographers, senior staff
assistants, personnel interviewers, and continuity
directors.
c.

Technicians - Occupations requiring a combination
of basic scientific knowledge and manual skill which
can be obtained through about 2 years of post high
school education, such as is offered in many
technical institutes and junior colleges, or through
equivalent on-the-job training. Includes: engineers,
technicians and engineering aides, including:
transmitter, studio maintenance and master control
engineers, and news camera, news sound, film lab
and drafting technicians.
Also film editors,
projectionists, and software specialists.
9.

d.

e.

f.

g.

Sales - Occupations engaging wholly or primarily in
direct selling. Includes: sales account executives,
sales analysts, account representatives and sales
trainees.

h.

Laborers (unskilled) - Workers in manual
occupations which generally require no special
training. Perform elementary duties that may be
learned in a few days and require the application of
little or no independent judgment. Includes: studio
grips, property persons, laborers performing lifting,
pulling, piling, loading, etc., carwashers, set up
helpers.

i.

Service Workers - Workers in both protective and
nonprotective service occupations. Includes: cooks,
counter and fountain workers, elevator operators,
guards and watchpersons, doorkeepers, stewards,
janitors, waiters and waitresses.

Total
Include in this column all employees in the Reporting
Unit covered in the individual FCC Form 395-B.
Consider as "full-time" employees all those working 30
or more hours a week.

Office and Clerical - Includes all clerical-type work
regardless of level of difficulty, where the activities
are predominantly non-manual though some manual
work not directly involved with altering or
transporting the products is included. Includes:
secretaries, production assistants, traffic managers,
traffic department employees, telephone operators,
junior rating and research analysts, assistant camera
technicians, news and feature assistants, billing
clerks, mail clerks, messengers, cashiers, typists, key
punch operators, bookkeepers, photo lab assistants,
librarians, (music, film or other) readers,
administrative assistants, tab operators, TWX
operators, PBX operators, printing and duplicating
operations, production coordinators, ledger clerks,
operations assistants, pages and guides, stock clerks,
office machine operators, including computer
console operators.
(The positions of traffic
managers and administrative assistants have been
included in the office and clerical category because
in most instances they are not truly managerial
positions. However, those stations that require
managerial functions of either position (director of a
full department or special phase of the film's
operation) may include them in the officials and
managers category.)

10.

Craftsperson (skilled) - Manual workers of
relatively high skill level having a thorough and
comprehensive knowledge of the process involved
in their work. Exercise considerable independent
judgment and usually receive an extensive period of
training. Includes: electricians, machinists, building
construction workers, hair stylists, carpenters,
painters, make-up artists, wardrobe person, heating
and air conditioning mechanics.

11.

Minority Group Identification
a.

Minority group information necessary for this
section may be obtained either by visual surveys of
the work force, or from post employment records as
to the identity of employees. An employee may be
included in the minority group to which she or he
appears to belong, or is regarded in the community
as belonging.

b.

Since visual surveys are permitted, the fact that
minority group identifications are not present on the
company records is not an excuse for failure to
provide the data called for.

c.

Conducting a visual survey and keeping postemployment records of the race or ethnic origin of
employees is legal in all jurisdictions and under all
Federal and State Laws.

d.

FCC Form 395-B provides for reporting American
Indians or Alaskan Natives; Asians or Pacific
Islanders; Black, not of Hispanic origin; Hispanics,
Whites, not of Hispanic origin; whenever such
persons are employed. The category which most
closely reflects the individual's recognition in his
community should be used to report persons of
mixed racial and/or ethnic origins.

Networks & Group Owners
Broadcast networks will file employment data in their
role as group owners and report employees whose
primary duties lie in the operation and/or management of
the individual broadcast station.

FCC NOTICE REQUIRED BY THE PAPERWORK
REDUCTION ACT

Operatives (semiskilled) - Workers who operate
machine or processing equipment or perform other
factory-type duties of intermediate skill level which
can be mastered in a few weeks and require only
limited training. Includes: chauffeurs, mobile
messengers, drivers, apprentice carpenters and
painters, scenic artists, film department assistants,
material handlers. (Apprentices - persons employed
in a program including work training and related

We have estimated that each response to this collection of
information will take 53 minutes (0.88 hours). Our estimate
includes the time to read the instructions, look through existing
records, gather and maintain the required data, and actually
complete and review the form or response. If you have any
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the collection and reduce the burden it causes you, please email them to [email protected] or send them to the Federal
Communications Commission, AMD-PERM, Paperwork
Reduction Project (3060-0390), Washington, DC 20554.
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ADDRESS. Remember - you are not required to respond to a
collection of information sponsored by the Federal government,
and the government may not conduct or sponsor this collection,
unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number of if
we fail to provide you with this notice. This collection has been
assigned an OMB control number of 3060-0390.
THE FOREGOING NOTICE IS REQUIRED BY THE
PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT OF 1995, P.L.104-13,
OCTOBER 1, 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3507.

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Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D. C. 20554

Approved by OMB
3060-0390

BROADCAST STATION
ANNUAL EMPLOYMENT REPORT

SECTION I

Legal Name of the Licensee
Mailing Address
City

State or Country (if foreign address)

Telephone Number (include area code)

E-Mail Address (if available)
Facility ID Number

ZIP Code

Call Sign

SECTION II
A. TYPE OF RESPONDENT

Commercial Broadcast Station
Radio

Headquarters

Noncommercial Broadcast Station

TV

Educational Radio

Low Power TV

Educational TV

HQ

International
B. List call sign and location of all stations whose employees are on this report. This should include commonly owned stations
which share one or more employees.
Call Sign

Facility ID Number

Type
(check applicable box)
AM

FM

TV

AM

FM

TV

AM

FM

TV

AM

FM

TV

AM

FM

TV

AM

FM

TV

AM

FM

TV

AM

FM

TV

Location
(city, state)

SECTION III
A. PAYROLL PERIOD COVERED BY THIS REPORT (DATE)
B. CHECK APPLICABLE BOX

Fewer than five full-time employees in employment unit during the selected payroll period (Complete page one only and
certification statement and return to FCC)
Five or more full-time employees in employment unit during the selected payroll period (Complete all sections of form
and certification statement and return to FCC)
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SECTION IV CERTIFICATION
This report must be certified, as follows: (a) By licensee, if an individual; (b) By a partner, if a partnership (general partner, if a limited
partnership); (c) By an officer, if a corporation or an association; or (d) By an attorney of the licensee, in case of physical disability or absence
from the United States of the licensee.
WILLFUL FALSE STATEMENTS MADE ON THIS FORM ARE PUNISHABLE BY FINE AND/OR IMPRISONMENT (U.S. CODE
TITLE 18, SECTION 1001), AND/OR REVOCATION OF ANY STATION LICENSE OR CONSTRUCTION PERMIT (U.S. CODE,
TITLE 47, SECTION 312(a)(1)), AND/OR FORFEITURE (U.S. CODE, TITLE 47, SECTION 503).
I certify to the best of my knowledge, information and belief, all statements contained in this report are true and correct.

Signed

Print Name

Title

Telephone No. (include area code)

Date

SECTION V - EMPLOYEE DATA

A. FULL-TIME PAID
EMPLOYEE DATA
JOB
CATEGORIES

OFFICIALS &
MANAGERS
PROFESSIONALS

TECHNICIANS
SALES
WORKERS
OFFICE &
CLERICAL
CRAFT WORKERS
(SKILLED)
OPERATIVES
(SEMI-SKILLED)
LABORERS
(UNSKILLED)
SERVICE
WORKERS
TOTAL

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MALE

FEMALE

TOTAL

WHITE
(NOT
HISPANIC)

BLACK
(NOT
HISPANIC)

HISPANIC

ASIAN OR
PACIFIC
ISLANDER

(a-j)

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

AMERICAN
INDIAN,
ALASKAN
NATIVE
(e)

WHITE
(NOT
HISPANIC)

BLACK
(NOT
HISPANIC)

HISPANIC

ASIAN OR
PACIFIC
ISLANDER

(f)

(g)

(h)

(i)

AMERICAN
INDIAN,
ALASKAN
NATIVE
(j)

B. PART-TIME PAID
EMPLOYEE DATA
JOB
CATEGORIES

MALE

FEMALE

TOTAL

WHITE
(NOT
HISPANIC)

BLACK
(NOT
HISPANIC)

HISPANIC

ASIAN OR
PACIFIC
ISLANDER

(a-j)

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

AMERICAN
INDIAN,
ALASKAN
NATIVE
(e)

WHITE
(NOT
HISPANIC)

BLACK
(NOT
HISPANIC)

HISPANIC

ASIAN OR
PACIFIC
ISLANDER

(f)

(g)

(h)

(i)

AMERICAN
INDIAN,
ALASKAN
NATIVE
(j)

OFFICIALS &
MANAGERS
PROFESSIONALS

TECHNICIANS
SALES
WORKERS
OFFICE &
CLERICAL
CRAFT WORKERS
(SKILLED)
OPERATIVES
(SEMI-SKILLED)
LABORERS
(UNSKILLED)
SERVICE
WORKERS
TOTAL

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