Tag Archives: FM Translator

Update: Comment Deadlines Set in LPFM/FM Translator Rulemaking

By FHH Law on July 29, 2011 Posted in Deadlines, Media

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

Rural Radio: Certification Requirements Now In Effect

By FHH Law on July 19, 2011 Posted in Deadlines, Media

The AM and FM channel allotment priorities adopted in the Rural Radio proceeding are now fully effective -- meaning that OMB has signed off on the "information collection", or certification, aspects of those new priorities.… Continue Reading

LPFM v. FM Translator: The FCC Moves to End the Stalemate

By FHH Law on July 12, 2011 Posted in Media

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: New Rural Radio Certifications Out For Comment . . . Again

By FHH Law on May 26, 2011 Posted in Deadlines, Media

If you've got anything you'd like to say to the Feds about the FCC's new rural radio certification requirements, your last chance to do so is fast approaching. The Commission has just announced the deadline for what is likely to be the last round of public comments before those requirements formally take effect.… Continue Reading

LPFM Cheerleader to FCC: Let Translators Originate

By FHH Law on May 2, 2011 Posted in First Amendment, Media

Commercial program origination on FM translators? A new "auxiliary secondary service" classification? And what the heck is a satellator? A recent petition for rulemaking addresses these and other interesting questions.… Continue Reading

Update: Effective Date Of New Rural Radio Rules Set

By FHH Law on April 7, 2011 Posted in Deadlines, Media

The effective date for some, but not all, of the rules adopted in the Rural Radio Second Report and Order has been set. But the real attention-grabber in the Second R&O was the Commission's overhaul of Section 307(b) policies. When do those new policies become effective?… Continue Reading

Update: New Rural Radio Certifications Out For Comment

By FHH Law on March 22, 2011 Posted in Deadlines, Media

The Commission has signaled that the recently adopted certification requirements for AM/FM applications proposing changes in community-of-license need to be approved by OMB. The process of seeking that approval has now started.… Continue Reading

Extreme Makeover – Radio Edition

By Matt McCormick on March 6, 2011 Posted in Media

If you're looking to move an AM or FM radio station from a small community to a different, bigger, community, your job probably just got a boatload harder.… Continue Reading

Turn-Of-The-Century NCE Translator Applications Dismissed

By FHH Law on March 31, 2010 Posted in Media

The Spring Cleaning bug has hit the folks in the Audio Division, which has unceremoniously dumped out at the curb nearly 300 applications for FM translators on noncommercial channels.… Continue Reading

Update III: AM On FM Translators – Revised Form 349 Now Available

By FHH Law on October 17, 2009 Posted in Media

Revised Form 349 - the form used or new and modified FM translator/booster CP's - is now effective.… Continue Reading

Update II: AM on FM Translator Rules Still Effective On October 1

By FHH Law on September 9, 2009 Posted in Media

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

Update: AM on FM Translator Rules Become Effective October 1, 2009

By FHH Law on September 1, 2009 Posted in Media

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

FCC OK’s AM on FM Translators

By FHH Law on June 30, 2009 Posted in Media

The Commission has changed its rules to permit AM stations to rebroadcast their signals on FM translators under certain conditions. The long-awaited Report and Order - whose release was anticipated last Fall - opens the door for considerable, but not universal, "cross-service translation".… Continue Reading

FCC to Translator Applicants: “Never Mind”

By FHH Law on April 8, 2008 Posted in Deadlines, Media

By Harry Cole
703-812-0483
email

As we reported here in early March, the Commission ordered applicants with more than 10 short-form translator applications still pending (from the 2003 filing window) to advise the Commission of which 10 applications the applicant wants to continue to prosecute. All others would then be dismissed. The deadline for those notices was Thursday, April 3.

But five days after that deadline, the Commission has had a change of heart. In a public notice, the Commission has announced that the dismissal of FM translator applications has been suspended.

According to the Commission, the suspension will permit it ...… Continue Reading

Commission Seeking Voluntary Dismissal of Auction Applications

By FHH Law on March 4, 2008 Posted in Deadlines, Media

By Ron Whitworth
703-812-0478
email

It's fish-or-cut-bait time for folks who filed more than 10 applications for FM translators in FM Auction No. 83 back in 2003: if you still have more than 10 applications pending from that window, you must decide - by April 3 - which 10 you want to continue to prosecute, and which others may be dismissed. If you fail to make that call by April 3, the FCC will make it for you.

In a Public Notice released March 4, the Commission followed up on the "limit of 10" policy which it had announced in ...… Continue Reading

FCC Considers Allowing AM Stations to Use FM Translators

By FHH Law on November 8, 2007 Posted in Media

By Ron Whitworth
703-812-0478
email

The FCC's proposal to allow AM stations to use FM translators for fill-in service (including at night, even if the AMer is a daytime-only station) has taken an important step forward.

The Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) containing that proposal has been published in the Federal Register (on Tuesday, November 6). With that publication, the deadlines for comments and reply comments have been established. If you want to file comments, you have until January 7, 2008. Reply comments are due on February 4, 2008. The NPRM was issued in August ...… Continue Reading

Found in Translation: Daytimers Going Nighttime

By FHH Law on August 9, 2007 Posted in Media

By Harry Cole
703-812-0483
email

Question: When is a daytime-only AM station not a daytime-only AM station?

Answer: When it manages to get an STA that permits it to rebroadcast its programming on an FM translator.

Over the last six-nine months, the Commission has issued a number of STA's permitting AM stations to rebroadcast on FM translators. These STA's have been largely

- no, wait, completely - unheralded. The FCC has issued no public notices about them, no public releases about them, no nothing. A quick glance at CDBS ...