Today marked the beginning of the end of local radio, especially in the commercial sector.  A station now only need to leave a toll free telephone number to make a mark on their community.  While I agree that there are some stations that are facing financial burdens as a direct result of maintaining a "brick and mortar" main studio, I do feel that REC's proposed solution was a reasonable compromise.

After a review of the Report and Order for the amendment of the Rules to eliminate the main studio for full service AM, FM and TV broadcaters, we find there is no specific impact to the operations of LPFM stations. 

REC Networks, the primary entity supporting policy for Low Power FM (LPFM) wholeheartedly supports the statement of the National Hispanic Media Coalition to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai calling on the FCC to provide aid to Puerto Rico.  REC also supports similar aid to the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI). 

With the news of the retirement of FCC Audio Division Bureau Chief Peter Doyle, I would like to publicly thank him for the hard work he has done for LPFM including the task of implementing the Local Community Radio Act of 2011 which not only assured that rules were changed to reflect the will of Congress but also to assure that spectrum in urban areas was made available for potential LPFM stations despite the "Great Translator Invasion" of 2003.   Actually, Doyle, like myself, has been involved with LPFM since day one.

REC Networks has released a new version of FCCdata.org with some new features.  These changes have not yet been incorporated into denpahoso.com, our Japanese language broadcast lookup site.