# Commercial Television Station Children's Programming Report and Commercial Broadcast Station Ownership Report
> **Federal Communications Commission** · Final rule; announcement of effective dates. · Published 1998-12-30 · Effective 1998-12-31 · 63 FR 71789
## Document
- **Document number:** 98-34471
- **Category:** broadcasting
- **Federal Register citation:** 63 FR 71789
- **CFR reference:** 47 CFR 73
- **Publication date:** 1998-12-30
- **Effective date:** 1998-12-31
- **FCC docket:** MM Docket Nos. 98-43, 94-149
## Abstract

These rules announce the effective date of the rules published on December 18, 1998. Those rules amended the Commission's rules governing the manner of filing of the commercial television station children's programming report (FCC Form 398) and the information to be set forth in the commercial broadcast station ownership report (FCC Form 323). The Commission concluded that commercial television station licensees would be required to file their stations' FCC Form 398s in electronic form and that persons holding attributable interests in commercial broadcast station permittees and licensees would be required to disclose their gender and race or ethnicity when filing FCC Form 323.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1998/12/30/98-34471/commercial-television-station-childrens-programming-report-and-commercial-broadcast-station)
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