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Two U.S. Senators have asked the Acting Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to lift its freeze on grants that are designed help improve the resiliency of public broadcasting stations.

It's a Class A FM serving Butte, Mont., as "The Zone," playing "everything that rocks." As of 10:30am Tuesday, "Cult of Personality" by Living Colour could be heard. In a matter of weeks, that programming will be replaced by Worship Music, if an Asset Purchase Agreement just filed with the FCC gets an OK.

They say FEMA’s action is “unnecessarily threatening public safety”

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Commission seeks to codify existing policies and streamline reviews in new proposal

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A series of new free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) linear content offerings from the NBCUniversal portfolio are being added to the DirecTV platform — sort of. As of today, every DirecTV satellite-free streaming customer can access the channels via the MyFree DIRECTV platform.

The charge to protect spectrum for the future of live events

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Sage Weil has gained a reputation across Wisconsin for his desire to establish a statewide hub of progressive-leaning spoken word content for radio listeners. Now, he's ready to ship in his programming and sales team to Ripon.

The company beefs up its expertise in cross-channel media

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Who needs to follow a main transmitter rule when boosters can provide a better signal to a more significant population? That's the argument ZoneCasting and MaxxCasting provider GeoBroadcast Services is making to the FCC in a petition tied to its "Delete. Delete. Delete" rule review initiative.

New federal legislation, when coupled with actions by the Commission, highlight regulatory ironies involving both the political left and right. That's the viewpoint of Clay Calvert, writing on behalf of the Washington, D.C. think tank American Enterprise Institute.