Mustard one seems to contain a lot of Daily Digest chatter that most stations can simply dismiss. For the most part, this is true, but there are important items in Mustard that can not be overlooked!
This is covered in the first mustard... regardless, here is comment from RBR...
Pirate power-down plan is no goA pirate in Beaverton OR, operating on 98.1 mHz, has been hit with the standard 10K fine. The guilty party, David Michael Oaks, put up what was to us a novel defense. He said that every time he was warned to cut it out, he ratcheted down his power. However, he didn't know just how far down he had to go. Apparently, and FCC agent said that "...he could purchase a Part 15 wireless microphone to compare the range of his signal with that of his station." It's government advice on how to be a pirate along the lines of "That one-master is still too big, matey, best try a rowboat." Aaarrrggghhh! Oaks didn't bother with the microphone test. We don't know what the mic would've cost, but we'll bet it's less than 10K.
While not necessarily germaine, this might be of interest.... (from RBR)
Webcast Metrics debuts new Internet radio ratingsThird party Internet radio audience ratings are once again available to subscribing webcasters and advertisers. Ending a more than six month void of ratings information for the Internet radio industry, Webcast Metrics released a ranker of the top 20 subscribing webcasters, with data collected for October. Webcast Metrics plans to publish regular monthly audience reports and subscribers will have access to additional detailed audience demo info. Since Arbitron closeted its Measurecast surveys last spring, the Internet radio industry has been without "exact data" third party measurement gathered from stations' servers. This data is converted to standard broadcast metrics such as average quarter hour (AQH), cume and total listener hours (TLH) using the same formulas as traditional broadcast ratings providers. More...
Answer or Pay (or both!?)
Timing, confusion are no excuseThe 10K fine against American Family Association's KBMP-FM for a main studio violation and failure to respond to an FCC inquiry will stick. The station is licensed to Enterprise KS, and was being operated as a satellite of KCFN-FM Wichita. However, the operation took effect under those conditions on 3/6/02. Almost seven months prior to receiving an FCC waiver permitting the rebroadcast on 10/31/02. It was hit with a 7K fine for that, and then another 3K was tacked on when AFA failed to respond to FCC questions on the matter. The FCC refused AFA's appeal. The Commission noted that AFA was very familiar with the waiver rule, as it uses it all the time. It should have known that it was not permitted to set up such a situation prior to receiving the FCC's go-ahead. It had also been fined in the past for the exact same violation, at its KBKC-FM in Moberly MO. As for the response violation, AFA said "...it is sometimes confus ing to the public to understand the status of a matter in one department that was previously resolved by a different Bureau..." The Media Bureau found this argument without merit, saying that AFA had been put on notice that it was under investigation for the main studio rule violation, which should have eliminated any confusion when it came to answering the FCC's questions. Bottom line: the 10K fine sticks.
