In advance of the Federal Communications Commission open meeting on Thursday, the FCC has adopted the Audio Division's request to adjust the comparative review points of applicants in the Baltimore MX Group #198.
The Federal Communications Commission has released a Sunshine agenda for the upcoming full Commission meeting on Thursday, September 17. On the consent agenda, there are five proposed actions on applications for review filed in LPFM proceedngs as well as action on a disputed MX group. The Application for Review is the appeal process if the Media Bureau turns down a petition for reconsideration.
In the case of the MX group, if an informal objection or petition to deny is filed and the outcome results in the FCC's Audio Division proposing the change the score of an application, it must go to the full Commission for approval.
REC Networks has filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission on the Petition for Rulemaking filed by the upstart Low Power FM Advocacy Group (LPFM.AG). In their petition, LPFM.AG seeks to make substantial changes to the LPFM service which included the ability for LPFM organizations to air commercials, own more stations, have primary status, the ability to have boosters, increase power and use the same engineering rules that apply to FM translators. The LPFM.AG petition also called for the ability for unbuilt construction permits to be transferred to other organizations in order to save the station.
REC's "Plan B" is an alternate concept compared to the simplified process for a 250-watt LPFM service as proposed in REC's RM-11749 petition for rulemaking. While REC had been working on "Plan B" for the past few years, a concept similar to Plan B was brought up by LPFM.AG in their petition for rulemaking, RM-11753. LPFM.AG supports a complete replacement of the distance separation requirements for LPFM stations in §73.807(a) of the rules with "translator rules" or a complete contour overlap model.
The Federal Communications Commission has announced that starting on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 6PM EDT and going through the Labor Day weekend, various FCC database and electronic filing systems will not be available for access.
The FCC has announced that any filings that are currently due on September 2, 3, 4 or 8, 2015 will now be due on September 9, 2015.
See REC's System/Service Status page for outage information and other changes happening at REC.
For more information on this outage, please see:
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2015/db0820/DA-…
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