As we reported last week, the FCC has proposed new rules to distribute the funds allocated under the Reimbursement Expansion Act (REA). These funds are to be used to reimburse broadcasters that were involuntarily affected by the post-incentive auction repacking of television stations. Under the REA and the proposed rules, FM radio stations and LPTV … Continue Reading
(Editor’s Note: If you’re looking for information on LPTV and TV Translators review Part One here.) Back in March 2018, Congress passed the Reimbursement Expansion Act (REA), which allocated additional funds to be used to reimburse broadcasters involuntarily affected by the post-incentive auction repacking of television stations. In addition to providing additional money for full-power … Continue Reading
On Oct. 24, 2017, the FCC issued a Report and Order eliminating the Commission’s rule requiring each AM, FM, and television broadcast station to maintain a main studio located in or near its community of license (i.e. the Main Studio Rule). In the same Order, the FCC eliminated existing requirements that are associated with the … Continue Reading
If you've still got one or more FM translator applications pending from the 2003 window, you now have an opportunity -- possibly your last -- to try to avoid the auction process.… Continue Reading
We've got good news for you if (1) you've got an FM translator application still pending from the 2003/Auction 83 filing window and (2) you identified yourself as a noncommercial educational (NCE) applicant when you first filed the application.… Continue Reading
The Media Bureau has issued yet another public notice providing further "guidance" or "clarification" of the filing requirements FM translator applicants are facing in the very near term.… Continue Reading
In the long-running reality show "Survivor - 2003 FM Translators", if you happen to be a player whose FM translator applications haven't yet been kicked off the island, heads up: the Media Bureau has just announced the next challenge.… Continue Reading
It turns out that five petitions for reconsideration of the Commission's latest magnum opus in the LPFM proceeding were filed. Deadlines for opposing those petitions have now been announced.… Continue Reading
The FM translator application juggernaut rolls on. The Media Bureau has identified 713 singleton applications that may be grantable in relatively short order . . . IF the applicants get their Form 349s (and maybe some related items) filed in proper order by March 28.… Continue Reading
In what may be the last peristaltic spasm of the FM translator review process, the Media Bureau has has dismissed "several dozen" more FM translator applications.… Continue Reading
Now, in addition to the lists of dismissed applications we posted a few days ago, here are a couple of lists reflecting the vintage 2003 FM translator applications that survived the first round of dismissals.… Continue Reading
With January 25 deadline fast approaching, the Media Bureau has provided some (non-binding) guidance to FM translator applicants relative to the preparation of their "Selection Lists" and "Caps Showings".… Continue Reading
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
