2022 Broadcast Calendar Overview
The Broadcast 2022 Calendar
The broadcast calendar is a standardized weekly structure that helps facilitate media planning and buying. Each week on the calendar starts Monday and ends Sunday, with each month being either four or five weeks long.
The dates and deadlines listed are subject to change and should be double-checked close to the respective reporting/filing due date. Additionally, regulatory and non-regulatory events may impact a specific broadcaster year-to-year.
What’s New in 2022?
From new scripted series to new TV movies and documentaries, 2022 is full of premieres to keep an eye on. The drama Elsbeth finds Carrie Preston reviving her attorney character from The Good Wife and its prior spinoff The Good Fight in this CBS series. Wendell Pierce and Carra Patterson also star.
NBC wraps up its fall premieres with November launches of Young Rock and Lopez vs. Lopez, while CBS and ABC continue their fall premieres next week.
In a yuletide tradition, each December Pillsbury releases its Broadcasters’ Calendar cataloging the important regulatory dates and deadlines facing broadcasters in the year ahead. It’s particularly useful because it covers an entire year, rather than just a month at a time (have you ever been blindsided by the start of the new month on your calendar and missed a critical deadline?). Using this broadcast 2022 calendar should prevent those surprises from occurring again. Click here to download your copy today!
New Year’s Resolutions
Creating New Year’s resolutions is a time-honored tradition that provides an opportunity to reflect on the past year and identify areas of one’s life to change or enhance. Whether it’s committing to exercise daily or learning a new language, resolutions can serve as a catalyst for personal growth and change.
Choosing a resolution that genuinely resonates with an individual can help them keep it throughout the course of the year, even when other commitments and challenges arise. However, taking on too much too quickly is a common reason for resolutions to fail. Trying to drastically alter one’s diet or exercise regimen, for example, can be an overwhelming challenge that easily derail one’s intentions.
Similarly, if a goal seems unobtainable, it’s often better to break the goal down into smaller, more manageable steps that will lead to success. For example, establishing a self-care routine is an attainable goal for many individuals, but a more obtainable goal than committing to meditate every day or going on a hike daily.
Birthdays
The broadcast calendar is used by broadcasters, agencies and advertisers primarily for planning and billing functions. It is often used in conjunction with specialized financial and accounting calendars. Its standard week starts on Monday and ends on Sunday, and it may have four or five weeks in a month. The length of a broadcast month can vary from year to year and can be affected by the timing of holidays on the Gregorian calendar. Bionic media planning and buying software handles broadcast calendars seamlessly across all platforms.
The deadlines contained in the 2022 broadcast calendar are based on information known as of the date of publication and should be double-checked close to each pertinent reporting/filing due date for currency. The dates/deadlines are subject to changes resulting from action by the Federal Communications Commission or Congress.
Holidays
2022 is a regular year with 365 days. Click on any month to see its specific dates and events. You can also view leap years, daylight saving, world clocks and more by clicking on the options above.
The first federal holiday of the year is New Year’s Day, which falls on January 1 this year because 2021 was a leap year. Holiday observances vary by state and sector. If a federal holiday falls on a weekend, it’s usually observed the preceding Friday (for pay and leave purposes) or the following Monday.
Other holidays include: