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The LPFM Store has set up hundreds of low power FM and commercial FM radio stations across the United States, and also supports hundreds of other installations in other parts of the world. We can assist you or your organization to start a new Radio Station – either broadcasting on a low power basis, on a commercial full power FM frequency or the internet. If you’re interesting in starting up a new LPFM radio station or an FM radio station, you’re in the right place!We are broadcasters ourselves, and are one of the very few LPFM broadcasters that have made the progression to obtaining a full power FM frequency and operating commercially, enabling us to offer unparalleled support through all the stages of building and operating a radio station.
National EAS ETRS Forms Due August 2018
It’s nearly National EAS Testing time. The FCC is getting ready for the 2018 National EAS Test. All radio and television broadcasters, including LPFM radio stations are required to fill out the ETRS form one by August 27. I can prepare and file the three forms for you for only $150 per station. 903-270-1500
If you are doing this yourself, The FCC will need identifying information on a participant’s location, its EAS equipment and monitoring assignments, and contact information for EAS purposes. Form One requires each EAS participant to file a separate Form One for each EAS decoder, EAS encoder, or unit combining such decoder and encoder functions.
It’s nearly National EAS Testing time. The FCC is getting ready for the 2018 National EAS Test. All radio and television broadcasters, including LPFM radio stations are required to fill out the ETRS form one by August 27. I can prepare and file the three forms for you for only $150 per station.
Resilient public alert and warning tools are essential to save lives and protect property during times of national, state, regional, and local emergencies. The Emergency Alert System (EAS) is used by alerting authorities to send warnings via broadcast, cable, satellite, and wireline communications pathways. EAS participants, which consist of broadcast, cable, satellite, and wireless providers, are the stewards of this important public service in close partnership with alerting officials at all levels of government. The EAS is also used when all other means of alerting the public are unavailable, providing an added layer of resiliency to the suite of available emergency communication tools.
The EAS Best Practices Guide was created in partnership with EAS participants to support incremental improvements by providing basic guidelines for EAS operation and maintenance.
Congress Explores Tools for Shutting Pirate Radio
Boosting FCC fines to as much as $2 million, penalizing building owners and stepping up raids in major Radio markets are among the options Congress is considering for combating illegal broadcast operations under legislation unveiled last week in a House Telecommunications Subcommittee hearing. The measures are intended to protect against interference with licensed broadcasters, the Emergency Alert System and airport flight controls, as well as radiation exposure to nearby residents and workers.
The bipartisan PIRATE Act, co-authored by Reps. Leonard Lance, R-NJ, and Paul Tonko, D-NY, would employ a combination of heightened penalties to stem the growing spread of pirate radio operations in communities throughout the country. Illegal operations are being found on the AM and FM bands alike, with FCC enforcement officers discovering transmitters operating from rooftops, balconies and other properties.
Tropospheric Ducting – What Happened to My Station?
What Happened to My Station?
Steve Callahan for Radio-Guide Magazine
It’s been good season for tropospheric ducting along the New England shore. You might not be familiar with the term “tropospheric ducting,” but you just might have experienced it and not known why.
We’re all familiar with the way that AM signals bounce at night and come down far from their point of origin. Anyone who has listened to the big 50,000 Watt clear channel AMs knows the thrill of hearing a distant AM on a regular radio. I was once surprised to hear WBZ from Boston while in a traffic jam one night in Atlanta, Georgia. An AM station’s “skywave” component reflects off the ionosphere as it cools down at night and the usually transparent-to-AM layer turns reflective and the AM signal comes back to earth far from it’s transmitter. Frequency and tower height influence the degree of skywave along with seasonal differences and weather conditions.
LPFM Waiver on New EAS Reporting Duty Requested
In November 2017 LPFM an advocacy group petitioned the FCC for relief to LPFM radio stations concerning meeting new multilingual EAS reporting requirements.
Citing low publicity surrounding an order adopted by the FCC in March 2016 and lack of input from LPFM stations, REC Networks has filed a motion for either a blanket waiver or extension of time for LPFMs.
Currently the FCC has established that all EAS participants must report some EAS details to their State Emergency Communications Committees by Nov. 6. The information includes:
- Description of any actions taken by the EAS participant to make EAS alert content available in languages other than English to its non-English speaking audiences; and
- Description of any future actions planned by the EAS participant to provide EAS alert content in languages other than English to its non-English speaking audiences, as well as an explanation of the decision to plan/not plan such actions.
A separate reporting requirement due by Nov. 13, known as Form Three, should detail the results of the most recent National EAS Test.
- Studer Micro Is at Home on the RoadMANCHESTER, ENGLAND — I need to start with a disclaimer. I love Studer. My love affair started in the ’90s, when I was learning to edit on their legendary tape machines. In the mid-noughties I pushed hard be the first BBC department to purchase an On Air 3000 console. I love Studer’s build quality ...
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- Chandler Limited and Abbey Road attain NAMM TEC Award Nomination for EMI TG Opto CompressorShell Rock, IA – July 2018… Chandler Limited, the only company in the world authorized to develop, manufacture and market the ‘Official Equipment’ of EMI/Abbey Road Studios, and Abbey Road Studios are excited for the nomination of the TG Opto for the 34th annual NAMM TEC Awards. The ...
- California Stations Ordered to Pay ASCAP Licensing Back FeesU.S. district judges in two separate decisions ruled against three California radio stations that “failed to pay ASCAP license fees over several years,” according to a press release from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Royce International Broadcasting Corp. stations ...
- FCC Hands Down New Dismissal in LPFM Advocacy CaseThe Federal Communications Commission took swift action against a new filing submitted by the three groups that had objected to the granting of nearly 1,000 new translators. The result: The FCC dismissed all objections except for one. In June, the Prometheus Radio Project, the Center for ...
- NAB Announces 2018 Marconi Award FinalistsThe National Association of Broadcasters has announced the finalists for the 2018 NAB Marconi Radio Awards. LEGENDARY STATION OF THE YEAR KKBQ(FM), Houston KOA(AM), Denver WBAP(AM), Dallas WHIO(AM), Dayton, Ohio WOKV FM, Jacksonville, Fla. NETWORK/SYNDICATED PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR Dan ...
- What Got You Into the Business?What got you into this crazy, fun business? While driving the other day I was reminded of a personal early motivator. With the move by utilities to underground service distributions, you don’t see many aerial cable splicing tents anymore; but as a young boy, I watched a phone tech strap on his ...
- Hubbard Radio Testing All-Digital AM on Maryland's WWFDDave Garner is vice president/director of engineering for Hubbard Radio. We reached out to learn more about the broadcaster’s plans to experiment with all-digital AM radio in Maryland. Accordin to Hubbard, WWFD(AM) “The Gamut” has broadcast music in the Washington, northern Virginia and Frederick ...
- iHeart Announces Changes in IowaiHeartMedia has named Jeanne Smith as market president for the Quad Cities and tapped Maxwell Schaeffer to serve as director of promotions and marketing for iHeartMedia Des Moines, effective Aug. 10. Smith will report to iHeartMedia Des Moines Area President Joel McCrea. She joins the Quad Cities ...