Have you ever wondered which LPFM stations could have the largest potential audience?  Today, REC is releasing a list includes the population within the 60 dBu service contour as well as the 70 dBu city grade contour (which is not used in LPFM rules but is a good indicator of coverage). 

Excluding construction permits and silent stations, the top-25 LPFM stations in order of 60 dBu service contour potential population based on full facilities is as follows:

On this day in 1984, California Comments was started. California Comments, or "Calcom" for short was a telephone "commentline" based in the San Fernando Valley, CA. Commentlines were phone lines with automatic answering devices that would play a weekly produced recording from 6 to over 30 minutes in length. The recording would consist of messages that were left by callers on an answering machine (called an "input line"). Callers would talk about whatever was on their mind. It was sort of a "talk radio of the telephone".

A few years ago, REC did a podcast called "The REC Report" and it included a section called "DINGERS!" which was a rundown of the notices of apparent liability (NAL) and forfeiture orders (FO) that the FCC issued to broadcasters and other entities for rules violations. There have been quite a few of them this week:

To prepare for the many steps that will be involved in Auction 83 processing as well as having the most up to date status information available for the next LPFM filing window, starting on Friday, June 8, 2012, REC Broadcast Services will update the status of all broadcast applications from the FCC's Consolidated Database System (CDBS).

On Tuesday through Friday mornings at 2AM REC Operations Time (same as MST in Arizona), 5AM EDT, REC will update the FCC's application tracking file in the our database.