Felony Conviction Leads FCC to Consider Revoking Station License

The Federal Communications Commission is questioning whether a licensee of a station in Pennsylvania is qualified to retain his license — or if it should be revoked after he pled guilty to felony use of a communication facility and several related misdemeanors. The chief of the Media Bureau has begun a hearing proceeding to determine […]

Copyright Office Initiates Study of “Ancillary Copyright Protections” Accorded to Publishers – Reviewing News Aggregation and Digital Media’s Use of News Content from Traditional Sources

The Copyright Office, at the request of Congress, has initiated a study to examine the rights and protections of news publishers under copyright and related laws.  The Office issued a Notice of Inquiry seeking public comment on a variety of issues that could extend new protections to “press publishers” and perhaps other content creators that […]

Nautel Introduces Online Testing

Nautel has introduced an online Factory Acceptance Testing program for new transmitters. “A FAT is a set of predefined tests that many customers must witness being completed in real-time as part of project specifications,” the company stated in an announcement. [Read: Transmitters Prepped for Turkey] Test Supervisor Charles Andrews said restrictions on travel because of […]

Gordon Smith Is Among the New Broadcasting “Giants”

Gordon Smith, president/CEO of the National Association of Broadcasters, is one of nine people being honored as “giants of broadcasting” by the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation. Its list of giants was begun in 2003 and now consists of more than 200 broadcasters. The foundation will salute the new additions in an online ceremony on […]

Tips for RF System Installation and Maintenance

Sean Edwards The author is director, RF engineering at Shively Labs. We all want to get the most value out of money spent. RF system repair can be costly. However, a well-implemented maintenance program can greatly reduce the need for repairs — and when there is damage or degradation to a system, that program can […]