The broadcast community has lost a very interesting person..  Ben Freedman, who has been battling health issues has passed away on January 11, 2013 at the age of 64. 

Freedman was well known for some very essentric methods of selling jingles and production elements to radio stations, especially to non-commercial, internet and LPFM stations that operated on tight budgets as well as strangely named products such as "Jingle University " and "The Instant Radio Station".  

REC has filed a Petition for Partial Reconsideration on the recent Report and Order. The REC petition is asking the FCC to fix only one aspect of the recent rule changes, the determination of which new LPFM stations would be required to carry "periodic announcements" under Section 7 of the Local Community Radio Act.

The LCRA calls for new LPFM stations on the third adjacent channel of a full service FM station (or translator) to carry "periodic annoucnements" informing listeners how to file an interference complaint in the event that the LPFM station is interfering with the listening of the full power station. 

REC Networks continues to support the creation of a sub-100 watt (less than 5.6km service contour) LPFM service.  REC is in the process of preparing comments on the Let The Cities In petition. 

We are concerned though that this Petition for Reconsideration has been prematurely filed as the LPFM Report and Order has yet to be published in the Federal Register.  At this time, only the Order on Reconsideration regarding the FM Translator issue has been published. 

If Let The Cities In files again after publication in the Federal Register, we will make our comments. 

REC Networks is getting ready to continue on the next step of the transition of the Low Power FM (LPFM) channel searching from the "legacy" LPFM Channel Search Tool to our new interface, myLPFM.com

myLPFM.com is faster than the old tool, has more search functionality, a more robust method of pre-qualifying potential second adjacent channel waiver locations and allows users to be able to save their potential locations for future retrieval.

The old LPFM Channel Search Tool will stop functioning after January 27, 2013. You may use myLPFM.com now and after January 27, it will be the only REC service for LPFM channel searching.