JOINT STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONERS MICHAEL J. COPPS AND JONATHAN S. ADELSTEIN CONCURRING
Re: Angelo State University For Application of a New Low Power FM Broadcast Station in San Angelo, Texas
We concur that, under our rules, Angelo State University’s request is a major change. Nevertheless, our action today prevents the University from contributing to localism, diversity and competition on the airwaves in the San Angelo community. To promote the broadest use of the spectrum, we should consider granting additional flexibility or opening another filing window for the many schools and other noncommercial entities that, like Angelo State University, want to offer new low power FM radio services wherever possible.
Editor: More on the indecency front. Remember, it only takes one compaint. Seems the minimum standard has been exceeded by a factor of 9. But it seems the argument being made by raising the low number of complaints (in this incident and the one linked earlier in this blog) is that the content is not objectional using "contemporary community standards", one of the tests for whether a broadcast is indecent.
"It is believed that reports about the more surreal aspects of the ceremony — a group a male dancers dressed as anatomically correct ancient Greek art, and a topless female dancer wearing body paint — may have touched off the complaints. "
"Satellite radio companies are expected to enhance their services to include navigational, video and recording capabilities and show off devices with the new bells & whistles as soon as next month.
Rumors that Sirius and Apple Computer were going to announce next month at the Consumer Electronics Show or MacWorld a deal to bundle iPods with satellite radio have added to the sector's buzz. "
"As reported by Channel 5 Oklahoma.com, Oklahoma City residents who listened to BOB 96.9 FM Monday morning were surprised to hear a deejay launch into an extended, profanity-laced tirade before she was forced off the air. According to a police report, co-host Lisa Mirick, of The Lisa and Ron Show, left her position at BOB 96.9 FM after an extended segment filled with cursing and criticisms of her colleagues and employer.
In the report, an employee said that prior to the incident, Mirick went into the audio booth and said she was going to 'unload on the world' and quit her job. According to the report, Mirick allegedly threatened to stay in the studio until police arrived. However, police said Mirick had left the building on Monday morning before officers arrived at Citadel Communications' Oklahoma City broadcasting facility. In the police report, two employees said Mirick appeared to be 'intoxicated' at the time of the incident. Several police officers said they heard the tirade on the air as they drove to the station.
Police said Mirick would not be charged with any crimes. "
Editor: Perhaps the police won't raise charges, but what if a listener complains to the FCC? This seems potentially ripe for a precedent of sticking the 'talent' with a fine in addition to the licensee.
St. Olaf College announced that about $1.5 million from the $10.5 million sale of WCAL-FM to Minnesota Public Radio will be spent rebuilding the organ in Boe Memorial Chapel and another $500,000 will go toward improving the building."
FCC Chief Urges Denying 'Private Ryan' Complaints | Reuters.com: "Powell, who has been criticized by broadcasters for eroding free speech rights with the decency crackdown, said recently context was crucial to deciding whether a show was indecent. 'Words or actions might be acceptable as part of a news program, or as an indispensable component of a dramatic film, but be nothing more than sexual pandering in another context,' he said in an opinion piece in The New York Times. "
"According to numerous reports, FCC Chairman Michael Powell is proposing that the use of the F-word in the airing of 'Saving Private Ryan' by a majority of ABC TV affiliates be excused. It's expected that he will get his way when his four colleagues on the Commission cast their votes."
Powell Urges FCC To Reject Saving Private Ryan Complaints The FCC received some complaints after the film was broadcast. Powell's recommendation will go to the four other FCC commissioners for a vote, the official said. Two more must back the proposal for it to pass. "
Camper Van Beethoven’s New Roman Times is the ambitious story of a U.S. soldier in an alternate reality that still feels very much like this warweary world. It’s getting added to college radio station playlists.
Her activities on campus have included volunteering as a peer mentor for the College of Communications, as a sports broadcaster for the college's student radio station, and as a basketball coach for third and fourth graders.
Gifford will begin her career in broadcast journalism at ESPN Radio .
California State University's KCSN-FM began first-ever U.S. trials of an HD Radio booster last week in an attempt to fill in a shadow coverage gap its 1mV/m contour in West Los Angeles.
David Conger, a disc jockey for the University of Puget Sound’s KUPS (90.1 FM), has been recognized by Collegiate Broadcasters Inc. (CBI), as one of the nation’s best DJs. The national association of college radio and television broadcasters handed out its awards last month at the 2004 National College Media Convention in Nashville, Tenn.
It's two minutes before airtime at WCCS, Wheaton College's radio station, and student Matt Nelson is going over his playlist with professor John Bezis-Selfa, host of his own weekly Brazilian music show. Since all of the titles are in Portuguese, Matt simply describes one song as 'the one that starts with Q.' "
Preston attended Quincy College after graduating from QND and was determined to become a music teacher. However, she decided to change her career path and took advice from a friend who suggested she work on the college radio station at Southern Illinois-Carbondale."
College radio has renewed an enemy -- conservative Americans. For nearly one month, Patriot Americans Boycotting Anti-American Hollywood has put 180 college radio stations on one of their many boycott listings. Though it is not for what the individual stations have done, per se, but for who they are playing. "
KXPW-LP in Georgetown, Texas, is apparently liable for a forfeiture in the amount of three thousand dollars ($3,000) for willful violation of Section 73.875(c) of the Commission’s Rules (“Rules”).1 The noted violation involves Power Radio’s failure to file a modification of license application on FCC Form 319 within ten days of replacing its authorized antenna.
In this Forfeiture Order (“Order”), we issue a monetary forfeiture in the amount of seven thousand dollars ($7,000) against Metropolitan Radio Group, Inc., licensee of AM radio station WBRD, Palmetto, Florida for willful and repeated violation of Section 73.49 of the Commission’s Rules (“Rules”). The noted violation involves the failure to maintain an effective locked fence around the base of its AM antenna towers.
- Citadel Broadcasting has signed a deal to use the proprietary anti-piracy and digital distribution system Promo Only MPE in all of its stations across the country. Citadel is the sixth largest broadcaster in the United States, owning and operating 155 FM and 58 AM radio stations in 46 markets."
Top WorldwideMedia Companies Get U.S. Supreme Court Hearing on File Sharing
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The motion picture and recording industries will get a U.S. Supreme Court hearing in their bid to block the ``catastrophic, multibillion-dollar harm'' they say is caused by file-sharing software used to pirate movies and songs. The justices today agreed to hear an appeal by Time Warner Inc., Walt Disney Co. and other media companies of a federal appeals court ruling that threw out a copyright suit against two distributors of file-sharing software, StreamCast Networks Inc. and Grokster Ltd.
$1.1M KQVO-FM El Centro-Mexicali CA (Calexico CA) from Hanson Broadcasting Company of California (Elana Hanson) to State of California, San Diego State University (Doug Myrland, GM). $20K escrow, $80K deposit, balance in cash at closing. Considered a bargain sale. Unspecified fair market amount will be considered a charitable donation from seller to buyer. Station will be going noncommercial. Seller retains KICO-AM. [File date 11/12/04.]"
Waynesburg's annual Christmas parade held Dec. 4 and sponsored by the chamber of commerce, will be shown at 8 p.m. Dec. 23 on channel 14 of the Comcast cable system that serves Waynesburg and Franklin Township. It also will be shown on channel 19, HSTV, of the Atlantic Broadband cable system that serves parts of Washington, Greene and Fayette counties. Television coverage of the parade was produced by WCYJ-TV, Waynesburg College television. Students from the college's department of communications worked on the production. Bill Molzon, director of TV operations, serves as the faculty adviser for the student TV activity. "
Holiday sales also are expected to fuel growth for XM Radio, the leader in satellite radio with more than 2.5 million subscribers.
With superior sound quality, variety, a signal that doesn’t fade, no commercials and unregulated content, satellite radio certainly has a lot to offer, even for those who can’t stomach Stern’s raunchy sense of humor.
But before you place a satellite receiver on your Christmas wish list, you may want to consider other developments changing radio as we know it.
Maybe you should hold out for the high-definition digital technology that’s poised to transform the traditional FM dial.
Or maybe you should snag Apple’s trendy iPod, which you can now use to access on-demand content ranging from alt-music sets to National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.”
Then again, you could just wait. Within 10 years, you’ll be able to have Internet radio — with its incomparable variety and funky niche offerings — beamed into your car as well as your home and office.
