Compliance
Compliance brings the FCC public file work of a US radio station into one workspace. It reads what Radio Workflow already holds, such as your orders, rates, available airing records and programming, and your station adds the facts only it can establish, such as candidate and sponsor details, verified program airings and EEO hiring activity. From both it prepares political file records, the quarterly issues and programs lists and the annual EEO public file report for your staff to review and upload. It also keeps routine deadlines in one place, checks selected public file metadata and can run a daily review of each station.
| For | US radio stations and station groups on Radio Workflow: the people who hold the Sales Manager, Business Manager, Traffic Manager or Super User role |
|---|---|
| Status | Available |
| Site | compliance.workflowcorp.com |
| Sign in | Your Radio Workflow email address and password. There is no separate Compliance account |
| Needs | Your stations on Radio Workflow |
What stays with your station
Compliance prepares documents and evidence. It does not certify that a station is compliant, and it does not upload to the FCC for you: your staff review each document and upload it, and can record the exact file they uploaded. Your station remains responsible for what is in its public file and for filing on time.
Compliance reads your Radio Workflow data and never changes it. Missing or unavailable data is shown for review rather than filled in.
Stations
Each Radio Workflow station is matched to its FCC facility. Unambiguous call sign and band matches can be linked automatically; uncertain matches, station facts and facility details are yours to review before you rely on a public file check. A station profile records its service, employment unit and known circumstances, so the work reflects what applies to it.
Political file
Compliance flags orders that look political as a hint for you to confirm, and lets you search other orders without excluding them. You can also record a request that never became an order. For each record it brings in the available schedule, rates, airings, make-goods and credits from Radio Workflow, and you add the candidate or issue, the sponsor and the request details. It then prepares a versioned PDF and keeps every version.
For lowest unit charge questions, it compares the rate evidence from Radio Workflow by class of time, daypart and length, alongside election windows. Your staff assess eligibility and comparable terms: the lowest observed rate on its own is not a legal lowest unit charge determination.
Issues and programs lists
For each station and quarter, Compliance gathers programming evidence and research from feeds and extractors. Your staff review the significant community issues and confirm the programs, dates, times and durations that addressed them. A research item or a voiced story is never treated as proof that a program aired.
EEO public file report
For a covered employment unit, Compliance prepares the annual report from the vacancies, recruitment sources, interview data and outreach activities your staff enter, and keeps it separate from the unit's longer-term outreach obligations.
Other records
- Sponsor leadership lists for covered political or controversial-issue broadcasts, with the supporting research kept private.
- Noncommercial (NCE) records: dated program donor entries and quarterly third-party fundraising records.
- Foreign programming disclosures, with disclosure wording, broadcast times and a quarterly inventory for each stream.
- A document vault for ownership reports, agreements and certifications, with the retention rule for each.
- A private political backup of retained PDFs in ZIP parts with an inventory, for safekeeping outside the app.
Deadlines, checks and reviews
One place holds the routine deadlines across your stations: quarterly lists, annual EEO reports, political windows and license renewals. Special FCC notices and station-specific obligations still need your staff's review.
A scan of the live public file reads FCC file metadata for recent issues and programs lists and EEO reports, and prompts a political folder review when there are known requests. Each scan shows its coverage and any part it could not read, and an incomplete scan stays incomplete.
A daily station review can be switched on. It coordinates the public file checks, records dated findings and can prepare drafts from the station's records for your staff, showing unavailable sources instead of declaring a station compliant. Findings can be turned into assigned work with an owner and a target date.
API and MCP
Compliance has a REST API and an MCP connection for AI assistants, covering the app's published workflows. You create a connection on the Integrations screen, choosing all app actions or specific permissions; keys expire and can be revoked, and every call is checked against the current access of the person who created the key. The OpenAPI contract lists every operation, and the MCP library has the connection details.
Access
Compliance opens to Radio Workflow accounts that hold the Sales Manager, Business Manager, Traffic Manager or Super User role. If you can sign in to Radio Workflow but Compliance says you need access, ask a Super User at your station to give your account one of those roles.
Because Compliance uses your Radio Workflow password, changing or resetting it on Radio Workflow changes it for Compliance too.