The Federal Communications Commission’s online public inspection file system for broadcast stations, cable systems, direct broadcast satellite providers and satellite radio licensees. It publishes the disclosures those entities are required to keep — political time, quarterly issues and programs lists, ownership data and pending applications — and it is a disclosure system, not a licence register.
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Partly open The site was served anonymously with no credential and exposes a public search control, so login is recorded as not required for reading. Its sign-in route is described for filers rather than readers. No search was executed and no file was opened, so result content, coverage, any fee and any rate limit were not observed and stay null. Note that the Commission’s main host and its wireless2 and apps subdomains refused automated clients at the time of verification, while this host did not.
Assessment
Strengths
It covers a precisely stated population — licensed full-service radio and television broadcast stations, Class A television stations, cable television systems, direct broadcast satellite providers and satellite radio licensees.
The Commission states the purpose in its own words: to make information the public already has a right to more readily available.
It exposes categories a licence register never would, including political time sold or given away and quarterly lists of significant programming.
It was the only Commission host that served automated clients at the time of verification, which makes it unusually reachable among FCC systems.
Limitations
It is a FILING and DISCLOSURE system, not a register of authorisations. Presence establishes that an entity has a public file obligation and has filed; it does not establish that any licence is current, valid or unrestricted.
Broadcasting is not general telecommunications. An entity here is a broadcaster, cable system, DBS or satellite radio licensee, and that says nothing about whether it is an authorised telecommunications carrier.
It does not overlap the Commission’s wireless licensing system or its carrier filer database, so a reader checking spectrum or carrier status must use those instead and will find nothing useful here.
Absence does not establish that an entity is unlicensed or non-compliant. Only the entity types the Commission lists carry a public file obligation, and everything else is simply out of scope.
No search was executed and no file was opened during verification, so result content, coverage and any limits were not observed and none is asserted.
Submission guidance
Records are created through incorporation, registration, filing, or statutory processes.
Submission difficulty
Unknown
Typical listing quality
High
Typical approval time
Unknown
Review process
Unknown
Best for
Reading the disclosures a US broadcast station, cable system, DBS provider or satellite radio licensee is required to make public.
Finding political advertising files and quarterly issues and programs lists for a named station.
Not recommended for
Checking whether a station holds a licence. This is a disclosure system; broadcast licensing is administered separately and does not live here.
Checking a telecommunications carrier. Carriers that file the Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet appear in a different FCC system.
Preparation checklist
No checklist recorded yet.
Common mistakes
No common mistakes recorded yet.
Establishing required submission assets requires submitting a listing and observing the result. That has not been done for any directory in this dataset, so it is not published rather than estimated.
What this directory accepts
Startups
Unknown
SaaS products
Unknown
Enterprises
Yes
Agencies
Unknown
Freelancers
Unknown
Local businesses
Yes
Developer tools
Unknown
Open-source projects
Unknown
Non-profits
Unknown
AI products
Unknown
Mobile apps
Unknown
Ecommerce stores
Unknown
Recommended industries
telecommunications
media
broadcasting
How the PetroHrys Score was reached
Editorial trust 15%
10 / 10How far the entries a directory publishes can be relied on as accurate.
Business usefulness 15%
8 / 10How much practical use a listing there is to the business being listed.
Verification quality 12%
9 / 10How thoroughly the directory establishes that an entry is genuine before publishing it.
Platform reputation 10%
9 / 10How the platform is regarded in its field. Deliberately not a popularity, traffic or recognition measure.
Spam resistance 10%
10 / 10How well the directory keeps low-quality and promotional entries out.
Industry importance 10%
8 / 10How central the directory is to its sector, independently of how useful one listing is.
Long-term stability 10%
9 / 10How likely the directory is to still exist, and to still carry the entry, years from now.
Submission quality 8%
6 / 10What the submission process asks for and how workable it is for the business submitting.
Transparency 5%
10 / 10How openly the directory states its rules, costs and criteria.
Moderation quality 5%
9 / 10How the directory maintains entries after publication.
The PetroHrys Score is a first-party editorial assessment, not a third-party
authority metric. It is the weighted sum of the ten factors above, divided by ten, so the number
on this page is reproducible from the values shown. Each factor is scored from 0 to 10 by a human reviewer and weighted as shown. The definitions describe what was weighed, not a rubric: no threshold or formula maps a directory onto a value, and two reviewers could reach different numbers. The score is reproducible from the factors shown on every record, but it is an editorial judgement, not a measurement.