Archive for February, 2007

Translator Licensees Spike, Get Cited

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

The FCC has released year-end broadcast station totals. Of the 17,968 licensed radio stations in the nation, 4,131 (23%) are translator stations. FM translators may outnumber the number of AM stations by the end of this year; if the NAB’s proposal to give away translators to AM stations gains […]

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FCC Creates Another LPFM Loophole, Courts to Consider a Third

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Right at about the same time the FCC granted special temporary authority to a pirate station in Nevada to operate without a license, the agency told a group of irate listeners in Texas that they, too, could have a station if they wanted to.

How? Some 263 of them wrote letters to the FCC requesting […]

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