# Main Studio and Public Inspection File of Broadcast Stations
> **Federal Communications Commission** · Final rule; announcement of effective date. · Published 1998-10-22 · Effective 1998-10-30 · 63 FR 56578
## Document
- **Document number:** 98-28405
- **Category:** broadcasting
- **Federal Register citation:** 63 FR 56578
- **CFR reference:** 47 CFR 73
- **Publication date:** 1998-10-22
- **Effective date:** 1998-10-30
- **FCC docket:** MM Docket No. 97-138, RM-8855, 8856, 8857, 8858, 8872
## Abstract

This rule announces the effective date of the rules published on September 16, 1998. Those rules amended the Commission's rules governing main studio and local public inspection file requirements for broadcast licensees. The Commission relaxed the standard governing the location of the main studio to allow a station to locate within the principal community contour of any station licensed to the community of license, and required the local public inspection file to be located at the broadcast station's main studio, wherever located. The Commission also amended the public inspection file rules to streamline the contents of the public inspection file.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1998/10/22/98-28405/main-studio-and-public-inspection-file-of-broadcast-stations)
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