On Monday, the FCC has dismissed 8 applications that were assisted by Hispanic Christian Community Network that is headed by Antonio Cesar Guel.  These dismissals include two dismissals in Minneapolis and one in Seattle.  The remaining dismissals were in Wisconsin and Texas. 

In these dismissals, the Commission sent a Letter of Inquiry to the tower owners to verify that either HCCN or the "applicant" received assurance (permission) to use that site for their tower.  In these cases, the tower owners make swom statements that they did not provide assurance to either HCCN or the "applicant". 

On this day, 30 years ago, a phone line, 818-882-6328 was connected using a conventional telephone answering machine with a special 6 minute loop casette tape.  The phone line called California Comments was the latest addition to the flourishing Southern California telephone "commentline" scene at the time along with other lines like Observatory, Telephun, DBS, Feedback and The Movie Line. 

30 years later, REC is still strong with our advocacy of the Low Power FM radio service, professional engineering and application preparation services and entertainment from J1 Radio.  We are still entertaining, informing and supporting.

Last Friday, MX applicants received an e-mail from Nexus Broadcast that had suggested that they may be the "losing" application in their MX group.   This e-mail promoted engineering services through RECnexus, a joint marketing operation of REC Networks and Nexus Broadcast. 

The e-mail was intended to be directed to applicants who were not the highest scoring applicants within their MX groups such as a 4-point applicant in a MX group that had a mix of 4 and 5 point applicants. Instead, the e-mail went to all MX applicants.

If you have 5-points, you should have never received that e-mail.  Some 4, 3 and 2 point applicants in groups without 5-point applicants should have also never received that e-mail.

MX LPFM applicants in the western USA should be prepared for the upcoming Public Notice that will announce the scores, tentative selectees and the window openings for settlement agreements and objections.  

The document is currently in "circulation" meaning that it is being reviewed by the full Commission for approval.  Any decisions that involve points in MX situations must go through the full Commission.  

On the day the Public Notice is released, day 1 of the windows will open the next day.