With what started as a Radio Shack answering machine on a single phone line that was connected on July 20, 1984, who would have ever thought where it would go.

REC Networks started as a telephone entertainment service called "California Comments". The name was a tribute to a segment from KFI radio several years prior under the same name where listeners would call a phone answering machine and then comments were played on the air later that day.

Here in the Phoenix area where REC is based, we have been seeing TV stations cutting off their analog signals and so far, the bumps in the road have been very few. The FCC has authorized TV stations to make the cut at any time during the day today. They are not required to cut at 11:59PM as originally ruled.

Here's a current rundown of all of our stations here in the Phoenix market:

Media Access Project reports that the DC Circuit Appeals Court has ruled in favor of the FCC in the case of a legal challenge by the National Association of Broadcasters regarding the FCC's December 2007 order establishing new guidelines for processing full power FM broadcast applications when such applications could displace Low Power FM stations operating on a second adjacent channel. In the ruling, the Court had determined that the way the Radio Broadcast Preservation Act was written, it applied statutory restrictions only to third adjacent channel protections and still permitted the FCC to apply the policy to second adjacent. Prometheus Radio Project intervened in the case.

REC Networks congratulates Media Access Project and Prometheus for their involvement in the ongoing battle to protect local independent non-commercial community broadcasting.

REC Networks has just released an update to the FMQ tool (also known as "Broadcast Query") and this release is now in production.

Summary of changes

- 2007 NCE Window application attributes
- Update to historical application types to reflect DTV conversion
- Minor revision to 2007 NCE "MX" support