REC Networks filed comments in MB Dockets 24-147 and 24-148 in opposition to two changes the FCC is proposing for the Low Power Television (LPTV) service.

While the proceeding covered a large variety of items from political files to distances allowed for minor moves, REC focused on two specific items, Online Public Inspection File (OPIF) and Community of License (COL).

Today (Thursday, July 25, 2024), the Media Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission has granted reconsideration on a dismissed LPFM application for Holy Mother Mary (HMM) proposing to operate at Cascade, Iowa and has temporarily reinstated their application.

REC Networks has filed comments with the FCC to express conditional support for the proposed A10 Class of Service as part of a much larger expansion of rural broadcasting.  Class A10 was proposed by Commander Communication Corporation to be an intermediate service class between A and B1 or C3, depending on the location of the FM station.  Class A10 is specified as 10 kilowatts at 100 meters height above average terrain with a service contour of 32 kilometers. 

On July 12, 2024, WGHN, Inc. had filed an informal objection to the short-term renewal of WAWL-LP, Grand Haven, Michigan.  WAWL-LP previously entered into a Consent Decree regarding underwriting announcements which included a voluntary contribution of $2,500 to the US Treasury to settle the issue.

While evaluating the Class A10 Petition for Rulemaking, REC has determined that the §73.207 distance separation charts used to determine how far FM stations need to be apart from each other contains many errors.  This includes how Class B and B1 stations protected and other issues, including a “compromise” between the NAB and New Jersey Class A FM broadcasters that was codified in the rules back in 1988 that resulted in some artificially lower numbers for Class A that should not be relevant for Class A10.  If the originally proposed values were to be utilized, it could ca