This blog is not linked anywhere and hasn't been updated since last week. Why does it exist?
This blog will soon replace the "news" link on the website as it allows multiple parties to post and an easy means of posting. That should read to you as this blog will soon have an audience.
So the next logical question is, why can't I just subscribe to the CBI list and get the info. The CBI list is meant as a discussion list. The blog does allow comments, but it meant to be a soap box in addition to news and content that is not highlighted elsewhere, including the CBI lists.
With that said, here are todays entries...
FCC auctions FMs for 100K apieceThat's the average, anyway, as the fifth round of FCC Auction No. 37 proceeds. Roughly 28.5M dollars have been placed on the table for 288 available licenses. The biggest bid is from Community Radio Inc., which is putting up just under 1.5M to get a CP in Brewster MA on Cape Cod. Community Radio is also the standing high bidder overall, with over 2.5M committed to four stations - - the others are in Pacific Junction IA, Normal IL and Palisade CO. It has also bid on eight additional stations, which currently are in the control of higher bidders - - they are in states such as Arizona, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Mississippi, New York, South Dakota and West Virginia. At this point in the auction, the rest of the top ten standing bid holderws are (2) Visionary Related Entertainment (2 stations, 1.018M); (3) College Creek Broadcasting (10 stations, 997K); (4) Cumulus (4 stations, 942K); (5) Am anda Mintz (1 station, 937K); (6) Aurora Communications (2 stations, 926K); (7) CODO Group (2 stations, 717.1K); (8) Jesse Porillo (2 stations, 678K); (9) Bigglesworth Broadcasting (4 stations, 523K); and (10) Christopher Miller (2 stations, 467K).
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rumWe call radio pirates pirates because, er, well, we do. But when one of them is operating from a room in the Rum Runner Caribbean Restaurant and Lounge, then they have truly earned the title Radio Pirate. This buccaneer is a member in good standing of the Orlando division in the burgeoning Florida pirate armada. His name is Everald Brown, and the action against his 95.9 mHz station has been kicking around the FCC for some time now (7/23/03 RBR Daily Epaper #143). As we wrote in the earlier item, Brown initially did not contest the FCC fine. We find out now that he thought it only a warning. Neither that nor his current plea of poverty have earned him a waiver or reduction of the fine. In the first instance, ignorance is no excus e. In the second, he didn't bother to document his poverty claim. So the fine sticks.
Both of the above from RBR.
CBI has been reporting on the license renewal challendges. Allen Myers reported to CBI that there are currently 17 challenges being processed. The current CBI site reports fewer challenges, which suggests a growing trend.
