The FCC announced today via Public Notice that it has revised the filing window period to apply for new LPFM stations, on which we reported in a previous blog post. The filing window was slated to open on November 1, 2023, and close November 8, 2023, but it will now open on December 6, 2023 … Continue Reading
FCC Chairman Pai recently announced that for the first time in a decade, the FCC will in the near future accept applications for full-power noncommercial radio stations across the nation. This filing window is expected to be followed by a filing window for new low-power FM (LPFM) stations. What’s involved in filing an application with … Continue Reading
On May 13, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” or the “Commission”) released a Report and Order (“Order”) announcing major changes to the local public notice obligations for broadcast applications. The Order eliminates the obligation to publish a public notice of certain broadcast applications in newspapers. Instead, applicants must now publish such notices online with … Continue Reading
The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) has changed in its rules for selecting winners from groups of mutually exclusive (“MX”) noncommercial educational full-power radio (“NCE”) and Low Power FM (“LPFM”) applicants and has made it easier for MX applicants to negotiate voluntary time-sharing agreements. In the FCC’s Report and Order, it has also shortened the minimum … Continue Reading
On August 8, we discussed changes proposed in the technical rules for Low Power FM (LPFM) stations, in an article titled “REC ‘N’ Roll in the FM Band: LPFM Changes Proposed, NCE-FM Changes Requested.” The LPFM Proposals have now been published in the Federal Register, and comment deadlines have been announced. Initial Comments are due … Continue Reading
Yes, REC Networks (“RECNET”) is on a roll with the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) when it comes to the FM radio broadcast band. Describing itself as a “leading advocate for a citizen’s access to spectrum with a heavy focus on the LPFM and full-service non-commercial radio,” RECNET has succeeded in getting the FCC to propose … Continue Reading
Anyone who has filed an application for a new noncommercial educational (NCE) station or a new Low Power FM (LPFM) station knows that many traps beset the unwary throughout the process. If you fall into one of those traps, your chance of success can be severely injured. On Valentine’s Day, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” … Continue Reading
The FCC has launched a Notice of Inquiry looking toward the creation of a new “C4” class of FM broadcast station, with an effective radiated power (ERP) limit of 12 kW. Although recent press reports suggested that the proposal was getting nowhere at the FCC, someone must have sent in a turn-around specialist, and the … Continue Reading
The window for Class A and B AM stations (and certain Class C and D AM stations) to apply for new cross-service FM translators will open at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018, and close at 5:59 p.m. Eastern Time (not at 11:59 p.m.) on Jan. 31, 2018. This will be the … Continue Reading
In case you missed this detail in Matt McCormick’s recent article about the upcoming FM translator application filing window for AM Class C and D station owners, Wednesday (July 19) is the start of a temporary freeze on acceptance of applications for minor modifications of existing FM translators and LPFMs, and for FM booster construction … Continue Reading
The FCC's Audio Division has dismissed an AM licensee's request for waiver that would have allowed the move-in of a distant FM translator.… Continue Reading
Keeping up with the breakneck schedule it projected a couple of weeks ago, the Audio Division has released a list of all the LPFM MX groups,… Continue Reading
The Audio Division has released a public notice providing a progress report and a road map for the handling of the 2,800 or so LPFM applications that came in during the recent filing window.… Continue Reading
For anyone interested in seeing the recently-filed LPFM applications displayed geographically on a map, our friends at Cavell Mertz may have just the thing.… Continue Reading
As an aid to LPFM applicants who have to protect certain FM translator input signals, the Media Bureau has provided some tips on finding out what signals they need to protect.… Continue Reading
The LPFM filing window has been extended, and that's a good thing, because the FCC has also issued some clarifications and modifications of the applicable rules.… Continue Reading
With the opening of the LPFM filing window fast approaching, the Commission has announced another webinar on the LPFM filing process.… Continue Reading
If you've got a singleton FM translator application still pending but you weren't among the 1,200+ applicants who got invited to file long form Form 349 applications last July, take heart! The Media Bureau has issued another invitation.… Continue Reading
We now know for sure that some FM translator authorizations currently being granted are definitely at risk from LPFM applications that may be filed in the upcoming window.… Continue Reading
The Media Bureau has opened the "long-form" filing window for the 1,239 FM vintage 2003 translator applicants previously identified as "singletons".… Continue Reading
