Okay, so daytimer WDGR/Dahlonega, GA stopped programming at sundown … but it left its carrier on, incurring a visit from friendly FCC inspectors, who also found a missing piece of fencing around the antenna base, and no perimeter fence at…
After the first legislation was roundly criticized by both parties, a new version of the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 has been introduced in the U.S. Senate. The new bill deals with immediate threats and attacks from foreign nations, criminals, and…
The Associated Press has entered into an agreement with Audiosocket to make available to its subscribers a library of over 40,000 tracks for use in production projects. According to AP, “Content producers will be able to use music that is…
Harker Research pored through pounds of ratings to attempt to answer the question, “Does radio group size help or hurt the ratings?” What they found is both predictable and somewhat surprising. On the one hand, according to the report, “Companies…
The radio universe is four stars smaller this week–the number of licenses turned back to the Commission. Keymarket handed over the licenses for WASP-AM, Brownsville, PA, and WBGI-AM, Connellsville, PA. Starlight Broadcasting turned in WAIA-AM, Beaver Dam, KY. And the…
WPRK-FM, a non-commercial station owned by Rawlins College near Orlando, has been fined $10,000 for failing to post Programs/Issues Lists for over four years. Station management couldn’t supply an explanation.
The Commission has slammed Mt. Rushmore Broadcasting with $68,000 in fines for problems with its studio-to-transmitter links. The total fine comprises fines for its individual radio stations, three operating and one silent. The operating stations were all fined for not…
Neuhoff, the president & CEO of family business Neuhoff Communications, died last week of undisclosed causes. Neuhoff Communications has been in business for more than 50 years, and owns more than a half dozen stations in Central Illinois.
The FCC reports that for the period of April-June of this year, “the number of radio and television complaints decreased by more than 44%, from 3,903 to 2,183.” More to the point, the statistic is “due to a decrease in…
National Public Radio, the University of New Orleans and a group of local business and community leaders plan to produce a nonprofit news website to compete against the city’s primary newspaper, The Times-Picayune. NewOrleansReporter.org comes two months after the paper’s…