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FCC 2013 Equal Employment Opportunity audits: and the winners are . . .

The Federal Communications Commission’s latest Equal Employment Opportunity audit letters have gone out, and some familiar college and community signals are on the “randomly selected” list. These includes Pacifica station KPFK-FM in Los Angeles and UC Santa Cruz’s KZSC-FM. Other winners include KGHR-FM, Navajo Public Radio of Tuba City, Arizona and WPNR-FM of Utica College […]

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A 2011 Ofcom breakdown of community radio stations in the UK.

Report: new UK community radio station launched (on average) every 13 days

Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator, has released its annual report for April 2012 through March 2013. This paragraph caught my eye: Over 200 community radio stations are now broadcasting in locations across the UK. Since Ofcom awarded the first community radio licence in 2005, a new station has launched on average every 13 days, […]

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On behalf of the FCC, the "no-means-no" cat says no Internet streams on FM translators.

FCC to FM translator owner: no Internet streaming please

Here’s an interesting Federal Communications Commission enforcement action. The agency recently issued a Notice of Violation to one Elizabeth Gonzalez, owner of radio station license K229BJ in Hollywood Park, Texas, because the agency’s Enforcement Bureau observed the FM translator re-broadcasting an Internet stream rather than an over-the-air FM or AM signal. To wit—an excerpt from […]

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