[Ccarc] Broadcasting Info

[Tom Murray]

AM on FM translators…new rules for Low Power FM…localism – all “ready to roll” at the FCC.

John
Garziglia predicts “we will see a new rule allowing for AM carriage on
FM translators sometime during this year, but the same action will
include substantial restrictions on the now- pending FM translator
applications, as well as a quick roll-out and 3rd adjacent channel and
2nd adjacent channel spacing relaxations for new LPFM stations. It is
unfortunate that our industry fought LPFM so vigorously, as the ideal
resolution for broadcasters would have been for them and LPFM
proponents to come to an accommodation that allowed for local
origination of programming on FM translators. (Program origination has
been allowed on TV translators for years.) That would have given LPFM
proponents several thousand possibilities for low power stations, while
at the same time getting broadcasters an outlet for the carriage of AM
stations, or for additional programming targeted at the community. I
sense that LPFM proponents will have much more political power than
translator applicants in both Congress and the next FCC. So
broadcasters may look back and wish they had not been so nasty to LPFM
proponents.” As for localism – let me open that can of worms in
tomorrow’s T-R-I. 
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