Thu, 12/19/2019 - 23:10
REC is planning a series of system work to take place between December 21, 2019 through January 5, 2020.
Planned for this project:
Tue, 12/10/2019 - 20:30
Today, the FCC unceremoniously adopted the Report and Order in MB Docket 19-3. This proceeding has made some changes to the way that mutually exclusive (MX) or competing applications filed in future full-service noncommercial educational (NCE) and Low Power FM (LPFM) stations will be handled. The changes related to this include relaxation of required information on governance documents for NCE applicants, some harmonization of the NCE time share process with LPFM, additional priority for NCE applicants that filed in 2007 or 2010 but lost out on points and for the next LPFM window
Tue, 12/10/2019 - 16:18
In an early vote prior to the December 12 open meeting, the Federal Communications Commission has adopted a Report and Order on MB Docket 19-3. A majority of the items in this docket spell out the ground rules for future filing windows for new noncommercial educational (NCE) and low power FM (LPFM) broadcast stations. The FCC has officially addressed the timeline for future filing windows. REC is promoting a timeline that calls for the window for new NCE FM stations to take place in mid to late 2020 (following Auction 106 and the conclusion of the TV repack) and for LPFM stations, in ear
Michi Bradley - Fri, 12/06/2019 - 21:08
When you review through the old history cards of various radio and television stations, you come across many of the experiments in the broadcast radio and television art that have taken place over the years.
Wed, 12/04/2019 - 15:00
REC Networks has had a chance to review the language of the Ask Musicians For Music Act of 2019 or AM-FM Act as submitted by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-10).
The intention of the bill is to put into place a method where the recording industry would obtain payment in connection with music played on terrestrial radio. Historically, radio has been on a statutory exemption as it was perceived that radio acutally promotes music. When you look at today's post 80-90 environment with stations so heavily narrowcasted and the lack of local talent (i.e. DJs) and more of a public expectation of "more music and less talk", especially when faced with competition by "non-radio" (streaming) services, with the exception of a small number of noncommercial and commercial stations that still care about the music, radio is not promoting music. When was the last time you heard a DJ say what label a certain song is on? For many years now, the recording industry had relegated that task to Walmart.
Wed, 11/27/2019 - 13:50
"Growing pains" associated with the Federal Communications Commission recent conversion of FM engineering applications such as modifications and licenses is causing substantial delays in the processing of broadcast applications.
Thu, 11/21/2019 - 20:16
The FCC has released a draft Report and Order (R&O) in MB Docket 19-3, the Noncommercial Educational (NCE) and Low Power FM (LPFM) administrative proposal. The R&O will be voted on at the prior to the December 12, 2019 FCC open meeting. Rules will not be implemented until they are published in the Federal Register. The following is a run-down of the changes in the draft R&O:
Mon, 11/18/2019 - 12:03
REC Networks has filed comments with the FCC in MB Docket 17-264.
The Communications Act requires broadcast applicants (existing and new entrants) to make public notice of certain types of broadcast applications at the time they are accepted for filing at the FCC. Currently, those notices are made through purchasing ads in newspapers. In an effort to modernize the rules and to reflect the current state of media, the FCC has proposed to eliminate the newspaper requirement and replace with an online announcement. The FCC also proposes changes to the public notice announcements heard over the air and officially implements public notices for LPFM. The LPFM implementation was an oversight from 19 years ago.
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