AU & NZ
4BC to move to 882AM in frequency swap with 4BH
The switch happens at 8:08am on Friday, October 8.
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US
Cumulus Swaps Mornings Shows In Columbia SC
Cumulus Media is swapping morning shows at two of its stations in Columbia SC. The syndicated Bob & Sheri will move from AC “B106.7” WTCB Orangeburg to Classic Hits 98.5 WOMG Lexington, while Kris Carson will make the opposite move to WTCB. Carson joined WOMG in April 2019 after four years as Production Director for […] […]
US
FCC Report 9/19: FCC Reminds Licensees Of 2021 Regulatory Fee Due Date
FCC Actions
With 2021 regulatory fees due by 11:59pm Eastern on Friday, September 24, the FCC has opened a website at FCCFees.com where stations can look up the amount they owe, fee codes, and facility identification numbers.
Non-commercial licensees are exempt from paying the regulatory fees if they are not co-owned by the licensee of a commercial station, does not derive income from advertising, and it dependent on support from members of the community served.
The FCC has entered Consent Decrees with three operators over their failure to maintain their public files: Reef Broadcasting’s 1620 WDHP Frederiksted VI, Southern Broadcasting Corporation’s 1330 WENA Yauco PR, and Wittenberg College’s 89.1 WUSO Springfield OH.
AM Changes
Beasley Media Business Talk “Money Talk” 1470 WWNN Pompano Beach FL proposes to remove two of its six towers. WWNN would drop from 50kW day to 35kW and remaining at 2.5kW night. Three of the four towers are specified to be to be used as well in the CP for 980 WHSR Pompano Beach.
Cenla Broadcasting’s Conservative Talk 970 KSYL Alexandria LA seeks to remove one of its two towers utilized for its nighttime array. KSYL will remain at 1kW day, but drop from 1kW night to 120 watts.
Auction 109 Applications
More of the winners of the new 97 signals from FCC Auction 109 have filed the applications for their new signals. […]
UK
Beyond Radio picks up Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service
Beyond Radio has taken delivery of its Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. […]
UK
Olivia Jones to host afternoons on Hits Radio Pride
Olivia Jones will be extending her presenting duties on Hits Radio Pride by hosting weekday afternoons. […]
ASIA
ABC needs more resources to expand reach in Asia-Pacific
On 20 December 1939, just after the start of World War II, Robert Menzies launched Radio Australia with the words: “The time has come to speak for ourselves”.Today, its international audiences are in the millions and in the regions and countries of great geostrategic importance to Australia.Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) International today operates on a budget of $11 million per year, estimated to be less than a third of pre-2014 levels. It has a staff of 38 who work mainly in media development programs for the Pacific region, and sometimes parts of Asia, and a small number who manage and administer its various international broadcast channels (radio and TV) as well as wide-ranging digital content activity.
ABC International management and staff have been committed to Australia relevant in the Asia-Pacific region, but its present resources are not enough to reach a potential audience of more than three billion people. It has the capacity to do more to reach audiences in the Indo Pacific region and needs more funding and support for needed expansion.ABC Radio has FM service in 13 of the most populous locations across the Pacific and in Timor Leste with a monthly listenership of at least 407,000.It has syndicated in-language (Tok Pisin/Solomons Pidgin/Bislama) news and current affairs program Wantok to Radio New Zealand (RNZ) on their shortwave service which is heard in the remotest locations across the Pacific.It also shares Wantok and our other daily news and current affairs program Pacific Beat with partners such as PNG’s NBC provincial services while also making the case to Government to expand Radio Australia’s FM footprint.Alongside this, its International Development team works with local media and broadcasters to build and strengthen their own transmission capacity, to take homegrown media and stories to populations in remote and urban regions.It has also commissioned the ground-breaking Pacific women’s issues program Sistas Let’s Talk, education content for pre-school and early primary students in Pacific Playtime and a Pacific focussed music show Island Music.It recently got some funding to create a new Pacific focussed sports program for ABC Radio Australia (Can You Be More Pacific). It builds on our existing bespoke programming for our Pacific radio audiences which includes comprehensive coverage of Pacific news and current affairs (delivered in English and through the in-language Wantok program) produced by ABC’s dedicated, specialist Pacific team in the Asia Pacific Newsroom in Melbourne. […]