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Based on a user report, REC has determined that there were some issues with updates to the REC FCC CDBS and the REC Industry Canada databaes since May, 2010. We have isolated the issues and we believe they have been resolved. REC did perform a manual update of both the USA and Canada databases to make them current as of close of business on Friday, July 13, 2010. Normally, the REC databases update early on Saturday morning. Please continue to report issues to us at mae at recnet dot com.

For over a decade, the REC LPFM Channel Search tool has been providing information to prospective LPFM applicants as well as support to existing licensees. One aspect of the tool was the maps that provided engineering information in a graphical form. These maps were provided by a public domain service provided by the US Census Bureau.

The Census Bureau has recently discontinued the TIGER Mapping Service that the LPFM Tool has used for that long citing information on the tool is extremely outdated (it was 1990 Census data).

For June, J1 reports lower listening statistics. The overall ASL is down to 15.43 compared to May’s 15.71 ASL. June’s lower statistics can be attributed to several factors including two significant network outages, one lasting 13 hours as well as the World Cup games and a seasonal decline in listening that has traditionally taken place each summer. J1 thanks our listeners for their patience and loyalty during our outage periods in May.

Also, it should be noted that J1’s market share in Japan is starting to close in on the US. In June, 31% of J1’s totally listening hours (TLH) comes from the United States compared with 28.4% from Japan. This is down from April’s 32.5% for the USA and 25.1% for Japan.

Listening tapered off a little bit in May. This is expected as historically, TLH has declined in the summer months because of less people in schools and others taking summer holiday/vacation.

Starting at the end of May, we have removed the Retro Weekend. We will reevaluate the strategy of the show as we get near the end of summer.