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
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
For the second time in six months, the FCC staff has signaled its great displeasure with the process of moving translators through a series of minor modification applications.… 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
In a letter resolving a face-off between an FM station in Toledo and a co-channel translator in Detroit, the FCC's Audio Division has not given some FM translator operators much to cheer about.… 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
