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FCC Report 7/11: WNPV To Salvage Part Of Its Array

The FCC has entered into consent decrees with Estuardo Valdemar Rodriguez 910 WSRP Jacksonville NC and Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education, Inc.’s 88.3 WUTU Sasser GA for failure to comply with the Public File Rule as part of the station’s license renewal procedures.

Minority Educational Broadcasting Association’s 101.1 WPJM-LP Palatka FL has been issued a Notice of Apparent Liability and Forfeiture proposing a $3500 fine for failing to file a license renewal application and continuing to operate beyond the expiration of its license. WPJM-LP’s license renewal was due to be filed by October 1, 2019 ahead of its expiration on February 1, 2020, however the station did not file until February 3, 2020. The $3500 proposed fine was cut in half due to the station being an LPFM and is a secondary service.

The FCC has noted that the following stations have failed to file their license renewal applications and if they do not do so by their August 1 expiration the licenses will expire:

Plains Independent School District’s 90.3 KPHS Plains TX
Cobra Broadcasting LLC’s 95.9 KBRA Freer TX
Jesus Pena Acosta’s 98.5 KJJT Los Ybanez TX
Stellar Media’s 1230 KOZA Odessa TX
Chapel of Light’s 1530 KLBW New Boston TX
Bravo Broadcasting Company’s 1550 KIRT Mission TX

Deletions
After receiving an FCC inquiry after failing to submit a timely license renewal, Alamo Navajo School Board’s surrendered the license to 88.1 KYGR Alamo NM stating it did not have the staff to manage KYGR and 107.5 KABR Alamo Community NM.

AM Changes
After its previous owner sold the land that held its studios and three tower array, Four Rivers Community Broadcasting’s 1440 WNPV Lansdale PA has applied […]

ASIA

India: Radio One goes International in Chennai

India’s Radio One network has switched over to International Music format in the southern city of Chennai.
The station, which has switched over from hit Tamil music, has also created a campaign called “Your Request our playlist”.
According to the company, it is India’s largest Music request campaign. It encourages and urges listeners to send in their list of music via an Instagram message on the official 94.3 Radio One page.
94.3 Radio One runs India’s largest International format radio network in Delhi, Mumbai , Bangalore and now in Chennai.
The brand has built communities around food, music, sports, travel and fitness backed by experiences of various celebrities and globally celebrated RJs like Ryan Seacrest and Casey Kasem.
Commenting on the launch, Ramesh Menon, CEO – Radio and Entertainment, HT Media Ltd and Next Mediaworks Ltd. Said: “Radio One International caters to a large diaspora of global audience with premium lifestyle. 58% of our audience belongs to NCCSA1 & NCCSA2 categories. Our brand promise of ‘upgrade to India’s only international radio network’ resonates very well with our upscale audience in all the cities and we look forward to amplifying our brand presence with the re- launch in Chennai to the international format.” […]

ASIA

DRM releases new corporate video

The DRM Consortium has just released a new corporate video focused on the user’s experience of digital radio and the many benefits offered by the open, all-bands Digital Radio Mondiale, DRM standard.
The DRM – User’s Experience video has been created specifically to introduce the many other extra benefits that digital radio DRM brings to listeners.
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The video uses an accessible and humoristic story to illustrate all the advantages and extra services available to listeners through DRM, on all bands and at no extra cost: better audio quality and more content choice, emergency warning functionality, public signage and radio schooling, by using Journaline, the advanced text application of DRM digital radio services, which provides access information on-demand without the need for internet or mobile networks and in many languages, as it is fully based on Unicode.
This is a sequel to the corporate video released recently, “DRM – From Studio to the Listener” which was addressing transmission and distribution issues and was mainly aimed at regulators, broadcasters and the industry. The energy efficiency of DRM transmissions explicitly highlighted in that video can now be individually checked by using the recently launched energy efficiency calculator.
Ruxandra Obreja, DRM Consortium Chairman, invites all those familiar with DRM, or who want learn more about the standard, to travel to the imaginary country of Integria, maybe a bit like yours, to meet new friends “whom you can follow without restrictions for 24 hours. You will learn how DRM educates, entertains, enhances, and even saves, their lives. A couple of dedicated DRM Consortium members have tried to introduce these advantages imaginatively by presenting them in an easy and fun way. We urge you to watch, share and smile with DRM, while learning about its great potential to improve the lives of so many all over the world.” […]

ASIA

Asia Radio Today rebrands to Radioinfo.Asia and offers free job ads

Big news from us!
As of next week AsiaRadioToday will adopt its parent brand logo of radioinfo.
You will also be able to find us at a new web address, www.radioinfo.asia.
But don’t worry, if you have bookmarked this URL, it will automatically forward you to radioinfo.asia.
All your usual features will still be on the new site, and it will be faster and more responsive than the old one.
To celebrate the rebrand, we are offering all employers FREE JOB ADS on our jobs page for the next few months. If you are looking for any staff, just send us an email to [email protected] with all the details and ask for free placement on the Asia site.
Radioinfo began in Australia over 20 years ago and has been serving Australia and New Zealand since then. In 2014 we bought this site from its founder Nik Martin and have been operating it ever since. We have one full time reporter based in India and freelancers all around Asia.
We welcome all contributions and media releases about radio, podcasting, and audio products from everywhere around our region. They can be sent to [email protected]. For now, emails sent to the old editor email address will also be received, but eventually we will close that address.
You can sign up to our twice-weekly email newsletter about the radio industry, podcasting and audio technology here.
We hope you like our new look and name.
Please take our survey to let us know your thoughts about our coverage. […]

US

Stephens Debuts Hits 93.3 Medford

Stephens Media Group has launched CHR “Hits 93.3” K227AA Ashland/Medford OR fed via 93.7 KTMT-HD2 Medford. The new brand replaces “93.7 Now-FM” KTMT-FM as the company’s CHR in the Southern Oregon market. The station is now positioning as “Medford’s Party Station” with The Jubal Show remaining in mornings. JoJo Lopez, PD/morning host at Dimes Media’s […] […]