COALS Migrating to Updated Version, Will Be Down Oct. 11-18

The FCC's cable operations and licensing system (COALS) won't accept filings between 5 p.m. Oct. 11 and 8 a.m. Oct. 18 as the agency moves to an updated version, the Media Bureau said Tuesday. The updated version, here, should bring more security, reliability and performance, the bureau said. It also makes cable antenna relay service filings completely online and will host cable equal employment opportunity annual filings, it said. Draft filings stored in the current COALS version and filings with unpaid fees won't be processed or migrated to the new system, it said. Filings to transfer community units that haven't been accepted by the recipient will also be canceled, it said. Legacy COALS ID logins will be canceled with the transition, it said. A webinar here and on the agency's YouTube channel at 1 p.m. EDT Oct. 26 will give more information on the features, capabilities and login of the updated COALS, it said.