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In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) adopts rules to allow digital FM broadcast radio stations to operate with different power levels on the upper and lower digital sidebands, by notification to the Commission. The rule changes will facilitate greater digital FM radio coverage without interfering with adjacent-channel FM broadcast stations. The intended effect is to advance the broader adoption of digital FM broadcasting by authorizing digital FM broadcasters to implement such asymmetric sideband operation by simple notification to the Commission, rather than by requesting experimental authorization as is the current practice.

Opening dialogue with your competing applicants can go a long way in such a limited time, even if you are the only tentative selectee.

News of a new or modified station on an LPFM's channel (or first-adjacent) can raise many concerns and "what ifs".

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The Media Bureau grants three applications of Remanente Broadcasting Network for construction permits for new NCE (FM) stations at Desert Center and Boron, California, and Moroni, Utah.

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$1.9 million will help fund 11 new positions including "backstops"

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iHeart and others say plan is well intentioned but would create public confusion

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Its application was previously dismissed for lack of antenna site assurance

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The New Zealand broadcaster will make the switch in 2025 for its centennial celebration

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Agency proposes maximum fine against sports network for using alert tones during NBA promo in 2023

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John L. Humphries is retiring as the head of Hearst Television’s Upstate South Carolina television station that also serves storm-battered Western North Carolina. His successor has been selected, and it involves a promotion.

Rolf Taylor shares an affordable controller for RGB LED lighting

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Minneapolis investment bank Piper Sandler has released its 48th semi-annual survey of U.S. teens in partnership with non-profit student organization DECA, which prepares the emerging leaders and entrepreneurs of tomorrow. Among the findings of interest to broadcast media executives are this demographic's top tech and social media choices.

The President of Texas-based Hispanic Family Christian Network has signed off on the sale of a pair of low-power television stations. One property, in San Angelo, Tex., is getting a little "Sunshine." The other, in California' Coachella Valley, is poised for some "Fair Play."

In mid-August, Georgia Association of Broadcasters President Bob Houghton announced his retirement. This led the former President/CEO of Tri-State Communications, an ex-NAB Radio Board President, to step into the GAB post. Now, he's moved ahead with the sale of a group of radio stations he'd been associated with.

He's a Sinclair Broadcast Group executive known for the success of the  syndicated pro wrestling program "Ring of Honor." There was also a role as Director of Sales at WFLX-29 in West Palm Beach under then-owner Malrite Communications. Joe Koff is remembered for having a "great career," says one broadcast TV ownership group head. Koff has died of cancer at the age of 73.

The secret to successful public speaking starts with organizing your message, says public speaking coach Rosemary Ravinal. "You can dazzle an audience with stellar delivery abilities but without structured reasoning, your talk will fail to impact them in ways that matter," she says in this column.

He's the licensee of three unbuilt noncommercial FM radio stations in the Lone Star State, as well as two AMs in the Houston market. Now, this Hispanic ministry is gaining a low-power digital TV station, bringing television to its stable of stations.