Dennis Thompson
As expected the FCC has issued a memorandum opinion and order extending the deadline for TV stations to transmit audible crawls until November 30, 2015If you need to renew your SBE membership, best to do it by the end of the month, May 31st. Coming up in June, SBE will have a Transmitter Maintenance Checklist Webinar that may be of interest to some of you (details and links in this Newsletter).
From the, Now you see them-Now you don’t, Department. FM radio in Norway, where a date has been set to do away with traditional FM broadcasting and go solely DAB. And don’t forget the regional FCC field offices being eliminated. If we can fine the BIG GUYS for a million bucks, who needs all those wimpy 10K NAL’s anyway? We’ll hope that the pirate broadcast stations haven’t heard about this yet. It will just be a bit of a longer drive to knock at their door.
For our meeting this month, Chairman Ken Holden has arranged for us to meet the Central Valley’s newest multi-media mogul (behind Gary Cocola), Mark Shirin president of Ventura TV and the Ventura Broadcasting Company. We’ll see how to have multiple networks, TV stations, commercial and program studios in a non-traditional setting for over-the-air broadcast. We’ll meet at the Ventura TV building at 6:30 PM Thursday May, 28th.
