The Media Bureau has announced that the window period for submitting "translator application selection" lists. If you've got FM translator applications from the 2003 window still pending, you've got your work cut out for you.… Continue Reading
Having settled on a framework for clearing the FM translator logjam and getting the LPFM application process up and running (at least in theory), the Commission is losing no time in its efforts to implement that framework.… Continue Reading
The FCC has tentatively set the next LPFM filing window for October, 2013 -- but since that date depends to a great degree on the Commission's ability first to clear out the backlog of 6,000 or so translator applications, a lot of work will have to be done between now and then.… Continue Reading
The 4th Report and Order sorting out the LPFM/FM translator situation has been published in the Federal Register, but the next step in the sorting out process is still a ways away.… Continue Reading
It's "see ya" once again to the third-adjacent channel separation requirements for LPFM stations . . . except that some will still be with us.… Continue Reading
The Commission's been sitting on some reconsideration petitions for months (in one proceeding) and years (in another), but so what? You've got two weeks (including Christmas and New Year's) to check them out and respond to them.… Continue Reading
A decision by the Audio Division appears to loosen a regulatory provision that has limited the efforts of some FM translator licensees to improve their facilities. That's the good news.… Continue Reading
Hurricane Irene has produced at least one arguable benefit: because of disruptions caused by the storm, the Commission has extended the deadlines for comments in the LPFM/FM translator proceeding.… Continue Reading
With some proceedings, the FCC seems content to let its handiwork age tastefully before getting published in the Federal Register. That's definitely not the case with the LPFM/FM Translator Third Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.… Continue Reading
The long-running stand-off between FM translator applicants and LPFM applicants may finally be heading toward some resolution as the FCC moves to implement the Local Community Radio Act. It looks like LPFM applicants are likely to get first crack at the available spectrum.… Continue Reading
Update on the AM-on-FM-translator front: the Commission has issued a follow-up notice alerting the public to OMB approval of Section 74.1284 and revised Forms 303-S and 345, all of which will become effective on October 1.… Continue Reading
At long last, the Commission's Report and Order amending its FM translator rules to permit carriage of AM stations has been published in the Federal Register. That means that those rules now have an effective date.… Continue Reading
