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What you are buying, what the licence permits, and — the part that matters most — what an implementation guide can and cannot promise about a regulatory outcome.
Last updated August 27, 2026.
The one clause to read. Everything sold here is an implementation guide written by a working broadcaster. It is not legal advice, it is not a compliance certification, it is not a security audit, and it cannot guarantee any outcome with the FCC. Your station remains responsible for its own compliance. That is not boilerplate — it is the honest description of what this is.
By using this site or buying anything on it, you agree to these terms. If you are doing so for a station or a licensee, you are confirming you are authorised to agree on its behalf. If you do not agree, the free material is still yours to read; simply do not buy anything.
The Program Chain Compliance Kit ($149). A digital product, delivered as a download after purchase. It contains a compliance guide to 47 CFR § 11.35(d), a device-by-device reference for equipment commonly found in a small-market program chain, network segmentation patterns, and worksheets and templates for documenting the work.
The per-station service ($895). A remote working session covering one station, together with documentation of what was done. Scope, scheduling and what is delivered are agreed before the session. Cluster and group pricing is available and is arranged directly rather than through the buy buttons.
The free material — everything under /rule, /equipment and /blog — is published at no charge and carries the same disclaimers as the paid material.
On purchase you get a perpetual, non-exclusive licence to use the kit for the stations operated by the licensee that bought it. Within that, use it freely: print it, mark it up, hand it to your engineer, copy the worksheets for each of your own facilities, keep it in the station file.
What the licence does not permit:
If you are a consultant or engineer serving multiple licensees and want to use this across clients, that is a reasonable thing to want — get in touch and we will sort out terms rather than leave you guessing.
Payments are processed by Stripe. Prices are in US dollars. The kit is delivered immediately on successful payment via a download link on the confirmation page and in your receipt.
Refunds. If the kit is not useful to your station, email hello@stationcompliance.com and ask. There is no form and no required explanation. For the per-station service, a session not yet delivered is refundable in full; once delivered it is not, since the work has been done.
This is the section that matters, so it is written plainly rather than in capitals.
It is not legal advice. Nothing sold or published here creates a lawyer-client relationship. FCC rules are interpreted by the Commission and by counsel, not by this site. For a contested question, an unusual facility, or anything where the answer could cost you a licence, talk to communications counsel or an SBE-certified broadcast engineer.
It is not a certification or an audit. Buying the kit or booking a session does not certify your station as compliant, and nothing here is filed with or recognised by the FCC. Note that § 11.35(d) requires no filing of any kind — if anyone tells you otherwise, they are selling you a filing that does not exist.
It does not guarantee a regulatory outcome. Following every step in the kit does not guarantee the FCC will agree your station is compliant, and does not insulate you from inspection, inquiry or enforcement. Compliance depends on your equipment, your network, your staff and your own diligence — most of which is not visible from here.
It reflects the rules as of a date. Every page carries one. Rules change, deadlines move, and obligations get waived — as the biennial ownership report was. Verify current requirements before relying on any summary here, including this one.
Equipment information comes from manufacturers and public sources. Default credentials, firmware behaviour and configuration steps are reported in good faith from manufacturer documentation and public reporting, and they change between firmware versions and hardware revisions. Verify against your own units. Nothing here is endorsed by any manufacturer.
The kit describes changes to broadcast equipment: passwords, firmware, network configuration. Those changes carry real operational risk — a station can be taken off air by a botched firmware update or a network change made at the wrong hour. You are responsible for deciding what to change, when to change it, and for having a way back. Where the material suggests testing before deploying, that suggestion is load-bearing.
To the fullest extent the law allows, Station Compliance is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or time off air, arising from use of this site or anything bought on it. Total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you actually paid in the twelve months before the claim.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, in which case the limitations that are permitted still apply and the rest do not.
Do not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of this site or its systems, scrape it at a volume that degrades it for others, or use it to distribute anything unlawful. The free material may be quoted and linked freely — attribution and a link are appreciated and never required by threat.
The site is provided as-is. It is a small operation and there is no uptime commitment. If a download link fails or a page is broken, email and it gets fixed.
These terms may change; the date at the top changes with them. A change does not apply retroactively to a purchase already made. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the current version.
Every question about these terms, a purchase, a refund, or a licence that does not fit your situation goes to hello@stationcompliance.com, and a person answers.
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