On February 7, the attorney representing Cesar Guel and Hispanic Christian Community Network (HCCN) has filed an opposition against REC's informal objection as well as various informal objections and petitions to deny filed by national organizations, local broadcasters, competing LPFM applicants and concerned citizens. 

In their opposition, HCCN accuses REC of using the IO to block HCCN clients in favor of REC clients, using the informal objections to gain new clients on a contingency basis and that REC's use of the informal objection process was inappropriate and that REC should be sanctioned by the FCC.  In addition, HCCN claimed that they were not served with a copy of the objection.

REC and Nexus Broadcast have teamed up to provide a full service solution for LPFM applicants and stations.  Under the new arrangement, REC will be handling all allotments and other FCC filing related services for LPFM, translators and full power applicants including those previously handled by Nexus.   Nexus Broadcast will be handling all sales of broadcast and studio equipment. 

The new operation, RECnexus is a one-stop shop for all LPFM needs.  You provide the creativity and a tower, RECnexus will do the rest.

RECnexus can be reached toll free at 1-844-REC-NEXUS or at http://recnexus.com

REC and Nexus are also in the process of expanding to serve the Canadian Low Power FM (LPFM) and Very Low Power FM (VLPFM) markets.

The FCC has released the public notice announcing the groups of mutually exclusive LPFM applications.  

LPFM applicants, both singleton and MX can now file minor amendments to their applications. 

For more information, see the FCC's Public Notice.  In addition, FCC's official list of MX groups can be viewed here.

On its own action, REC Networks has performed an analysis of the Tucson area.  Arizona is one of REC’s original “areas of interest” since the first LPFM filing window in 2000. 

REC has identified three MX groups within the Tucson area along with their local community presence dates:

REC GROUP #22 – 99.1 MHz
191755 – Tohono O’odham Nation (TON) – San Xavier, AZ (1950)
192158 – LPFM Downtown Tucson (Downtown) (3/2011)
194416 – Iglesia Centro de Sanidad (Iglesia) (9/2011)

REC GROUP #89 – 99.9 MHz
196358 – Message Radio of Tucson (Message) (2009)
192507 – Global Change Multi-Media (Global) (8/2011)

REC Networks has filed an informal objection against 245 pending LPFM applications filed in the 2013 window. 

All of these applications were filed with Antonio Cesar Guel as the technical contact.  Guel is also the president of Hispanic Christian Community Network, an organization that currently owns over 40 LPTV stations across the country.

Our informal objection was intended to "flag" these 245 applications to call the FCC's attention to various patterns in these applications including: