REC operational status (April 18, 2:45 PM EDT) - REC will be in minimal operations from Saturday, April 13 through Sunday, April 21, 2023 due to the NABSHOW in Las Vegas. (Recovery was further delayed due to airline issues) During this time, we will have no phone support, minimal opportunities to respond to emails and limited systems access. Priority will be provided for REC-handled LPFM window applicants, REC clients with filing deadlines and natural disaster related emergencies. Thank you for your patience.

REC statement on the Comcast Net Neutrality decision

Tue, 04/06/2010 - 14:40

Original New York Times article (opens in new window.)

Imagine for a moment if your state passed a law that said that in order for you to use an interstate highway, you must be driving a Ford or a Nissan. If you drive a GM, Chrysler or a Toyota, you must use the 2-lane highway with a 35 mile per hour speed limit. If you were a GM owner, you would feel discriminated against.

J1 reports March results

Sat, 04/03/2010 - 11:58

In March, J1 experienced a gradual increase in listening around the world. Our world markets are starting to be more defined as our listening in Japan, Singapore and North America (USA/Canada) increase and other nations start to decrease. North America accounts for over 50% of J1 listening in the past month. Domestically in the USA, we have seen a substantial increase of share in Southern California. We are very concerned about a sharp decrease in TLH from the Bay Area, one of our primary markets.

J1 reports results for January, 2010

Tue, 02/02/2010 - 08:09

Overall, J1 listening statistics for January have been fairly steady over December. Overall total listening hours (TLH) fell short of the 30-day November period but was an increase over December. In January, J1 did see an increase in VIP listening and simultaneous VIP counts have been seen as high as 7 during the course of the month.

REC Broadcast Database services restored

Mon, 01/11/2010 - 00:18

01/11 5AM Update: REC's "sub-domains" used for the broadcast database server have been restored. It may take time for the information to propagate through the internet but should be up in the next 24 hours if it isn't up already.

This started late last week when our domain name server (DNS) provider ZoneEdit had a failure of their primary and secondary nameservers. This left REC as well as many other ZoneEdit users out in the cold.

We attempted to move our DNS to our hosting provider HostGator. (our use of ZoneEdit for DNS predates our use of HostGator by several years)

REC History - 2009

Thu, 01/07/2010 - 23:30

In 2009, REC celebrated its 25th anniversary. On July 20, 1984 from what started as a simple phone line called "California Comments" has developed and changed over the past quarter century.

2009 was a pretty slow year for REC. Other than routine database maintenance, we pretty much took a back seat in the broadcast/LPFM department this year. Our friends at Prometheus Radio Project were very busy in getting legislation through that would increase the opportunities for new community broadcast stations across the country.

Local Community Radio Act passes in the House

Wed, 12/16/2009 - 19:10

Today, the US House of Representatives passes the Local Community Radio Act.

The vote, which was supposed to take place on Tuesday, was delayed until Wednesday due to a lack of a quorum, a significant number of representatives to vote on the measure.

During the debate on the measure, Lee Terry (R-NE) recognizes the MITRE study and the fact that LPFM stations operating on third adjacent channels will not interfere with full power FM stations. Rick Boucher (D-VA) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) explain the benefits of LPFM stations to women, minorities and local musicians.

Over the past few years, REC has helped provide data and support to those organizations who were involved in pushing this legislation through.

Upcoming filing window: NCE Vacant Non-reserved Band (2/19~2/26 '10)

Tue, 11/03/2009 - 22:48

The FCC has set up a filing window from February 19 through February 26, 2010. This has been rescheduled from this December.

This window is restricted to locations that are on the Table of Allotments that have been reserved as non-commercial educational.

In 2003, the FCC opened a window to permit proponents to petition that a certain vacant non-reserved band allotment should be moved from commercial to non-commercial use.

In order to reserve a channel as non-commercial, the proponent must make a showing that there are no reserved band (88-92) channels could be used without interference to foreign broadcast stations or TV channel 6 stations.

There is also a third test where an allotment would be possible if the allotment would provide the first or second non-commercial educational (NCE) radio service to at least 10% of the population within the 60 dBu service contour of the proposed allotment and that population is at least 2,000 persons.

There are a few things you need to know about this window:

Important REC website changes

Thu, 09/24/2009 - 21:46
To prepare REC for a move to outside the Phoenix area, REC Networks will be using an outside hosting service for a majority of the website content of the REC properties. One service that can not be moved is the FCC/Canada broadcast database services. These will continue to be handled on an internal server. Going forward, all inquiries should go to cdbs.recnet.com . Requests going to recnet.com/cdbs will be redirected. There will be a period of time where either no or limited FCC/IC database services will be made available. We will announce that before it happens.

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