Enhanced LMS: FCCdata imported letters
REC is working on a major project to address the shortcomings of the raw data that is provided by the FCC since FM radio converted to the LMS system on September 25, 2019.
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LMS database modifications and new tables.
By admin | 2:12 PM EDT, Mon August 10, 2020
REC performed emergency maintenance on the database due to unexpected LMS table changes at the FCC.
Added fields to tables lkp_contact_rep_type, app_antenna, app_antenna_frequency, application, application_facility and facility.
Added three new tables: atsc3_facility, atsc_nextgen and technical_certification.
Full CDBS/LMS update started at 6:45PM.
J1 Listener Counts
By admin | 11:28 PM EDT, Thu July 23, 2020
Rebuilt system to obtain listener counts. Information on Twitter playlists now display correct counts.
Delmarva-FM: Cover art
By admin | 9:14 PM EDT, Sun July 12, 2020
Built new interface to Disogs to get cover art for Delmarva FM (REC-FM). The system will cache cover art. Any cover art that we do not have, the system will attempt to retrieve the cover art from DIscogs.
We will eventually build a similar ability for J1.
This cover art only covers what is viewed on the recnet.com home page and on the J1/Delmarva FM popup "J-Player". The mobile app, TuneIn and Roku get their cover art from their own system sources.
If no cover art is available, the Delmarva-FM logo will be displayed.
System status widget, database updates
By admin | 8:47 PM EDT, Sun July 05, 2020
A new widget appears on the left sidebar of the recnet.com website which displays any non-operational conditions that are currently reported on the REC Operational Status Page (recnet.com/motd).
New functionality has been added for when scheduled database updates take place, the Operational Status Page and Status Widget will get automatically updated with an orange "Updating" status. The Status Page will give details of which databases are being updated.
LPFM LMS contour maps.
By admin | 4:32 PM EDT, Sat July 04, 2020
Earlier this week, we made some changes to attempt to correct bad data delivered from the FCC in respect to effective radiated power on LPFM stations in the LMS feed. This one time project has attempted to fix the contour maps for all active LPFM engineering records in LMS. We have not updated the contour maps of archived LPFM LMS records. We have attempted to correct 133 applications.
BAD LMS DOWNLOAD FROM FCC
By admin | 9:24 AM EDT, Fri July 03, 2020
REC is currently reverting to the previous day's LMS raw data file due to a FCC server failure. Until restored, REC systems are unreliable. ETU 1PM 7/3.
WEEKEND PROJECT: FM contour maps...
By admin | 9:46 PM EDT, Thu July 02, 2020
We will be doing a weekend project to address LMS contour maps, mainly LPFM stations. During a period of time this weekend, contour maps may be unavailable at times in FCCdata/Denpahoso, LPFM.us and the VPIF system (lpfm.ws).
7/4 - contour maps updated.
Counteracting bad LPFM data in LMS
By admin | 2:39 PM EDT, Tue June 30, 2020
REC placed a couple of emergency fixes into various systems this morning to deal with the ongoing bad information coming from the FCC on LPFM records.
Modified back office systems and FCCdata to regard a station in which the app_antenna.aant_antenna_type_code from LMS is blank. Normally, this is the field in LMS that designates an antenna to be directional or nondirectional. Systems will treat blank entries as nondirectional facilities.
J1 Travel: JR EAST parser
By admin | 10:18 PM EDT, Mon June 22, 2020
Did a complete rebuild of the system used to obtain travel reports for JR East Japan Railway.
We have returned JR EAST to on-air, website, Twitter and the mobile app.
There may be some additional table building necessary to determine any new English language nomenclature used by the railway.
J1 Travel: JR East & New York City MTA, Mobile App
By admin | 12:44 PM EDT, Sun June 21, 2020
Installed some modifications and added monitoring to support the site changes at JR East in order to obtain train delay information for the Kanto region. Modifying the code on an ongoing basis to handle the new delay status messages from JR East. Any JR East delays that the system is able to decode will be displayed. All issues will be logged.
Until the new JR East interface is stable, we have curtailed all tweets from the JR East interface to the @j1_travel Twitter account.
myLPFM 2.0: false positives - contour map issues
By admin | 4:47 PM EDT, Fri June 19, 2020
We will be working on numerous bugs reported on myLPFM 2.0. This includes reports of missing contour maps, nonfunctional census information and false positives in results.
ETU: Sunday 9PM ET.
6/21/2020 1443 EDT
Determined and cleared the issue that was causing the false positive result. The Channel Search was not properly handling some LMS applications.
Determined and cleared the issue that was causing the lack of contour maps.
J1: Twitter interface for travel.
By admin | 4:44 PM EDT, Fri June 19, 2020
J1 uses Twitter to obtain service status information for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority trains, Metrolink and some Japanese private railways. After a 6 day outage, we have redesigned the interface to Twitter using their most recent API and we have resumed travel information on J1 and the (new) J1 Mobile App.
Twitter updates will be retrieved once per minute, 24 hours a day.
Metro and Metrolink updates will take place once per minute, 24 hours a day.
Japan updates will take place on the following schedule:
FCC.today: new Daily Releases section added
By Michi Bradley | 8:20 AM EDT, Sun June 14, 2020
A new "Daily Releases" section has been added to FCC.today. It will only be on the desktop version and will be located between Broadcast Applications and Broadcast Actions.
Daily Releases will track all of the new documents released by the FCC (from all Bureaus, not just Media) in order to provide a "first view" into newly released decisions and documents.
Clicking the news item will open a new browser tab and take you to that item at FCC.gov.
Releases made within the past 30 minutes will display with a yellow background.
LPFM and LMS map fixes in FCCdata.
By admin | 8:24 PM EDT, Wed June 10, 2020
Put in several modifications to the display and handling of LMS LPFM records that have extremely low powers and bring them back up to what they should be.
Fixed a bug in the display of FM maps on LMS FM records where an amendment was filed.
We note that there may still be some issues with LMS FM maps, especially for LPFM stations. We will try to fix those on the weekend.
