The Federal Communications Commission has launched a new website promoting its planned spectrum incentive auction.
The website is part of the FCC’s Learn Everything About Reverse-Auctions Now, or “LEARN” outreach program. The site was billed as “a one-stop information resource for incentive auction stakeholders, particularly the nation’s broadcasters”.
Ken Holden, SBE 66 Chairman
I hope you all had a very merry Christmas and Santa was good to you-unless you were naughty this year. I know our household was very busy with visiting family and friends as well as keeping the grand kids busy and out of grandmas cookie dough. more…
Below are photos of the tower mishap at K100FM (Classic Rock), when a delivery truck apparently hooked one of the guy wires on the tower.
The station was able to set up a low power transmitter and temporary antenna by Friday morning December 7th.
Dennis Thompson
Don’t feel so bad if your station ad revenues are a bit lighter after the election. According to recent published reports, Clear Channel is reporting about five billion dollars of debt. Panasonic posted an 8.8 billion dollar loss—not good for the company stock.
FIVE YEARS
If you have five years of broadcast engineering or related technology then you may want to look into taking the following exams: Certified Broadcast Radio Engineer, Certified Broadcast Television Engineer, Certified Audio Engineer or Certified Video Engineer. These exams consist of 50 multiple-choice questions and are open book with an allotted 3 hours of exam time. Passing score for the CBRE, CBTE, CEA and CEV is 70%. For more information on the CBRE and CBTE and suitable substitutions for experience and applications click here.
For CEA and CEV inquiries click here .
The 2013 Tower Calendar by Scott Fybush is now available. 
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