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Format Change In Progress At KUBE Seattle

Posted: 19 Feb 2022 01:23 PM PST https://radioinsight.com/headlines/220130/format-change-in-progress-at-kube-seattle/


iHeartMedia has dropped the Hip Hop format on 93.3 KUBE Seattle for the
second time.

The station began stunting at midnight with a a CHR playlist and sweepers redirecting listeners to sister Hits 106.1 KBKS-FM Tacoma/Seattle. The
stations website includes a brief message stating, We periodically review
our programming to ensure that we’re meeting our listeners’ needs and providing them with the best and most relevant content, based on listener feedback. Occasionally this means that we need to make some changes and
offer other programming that we believe will resonate with listeners.
Listeners can of course continue to enjoy KUBE Seattle’s #1 for Hip Hop at HERE and on the iHeartRadio app. The Hip Hop programming is also on 93.3
HD2.

No word yet on what format will debut on 93.3 or when. Also unknown right
now is the status of the local airstaff including morning hosts Strawberry
and Lizette Love, midday host Besa Gordon, and PD/afternoon host Eric
Rosado.

iHeartMedia resurrected KUBE in May 2018 after demoting it to rimshot 104.9 from January 2016 to the end of 2017 as part of four station format shuffle.

KUBE registered a 1.4 share in the Holiday 2021 Nielsen Audio ratings.

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FCC Report 2/20: Seven Changes Made To Technical Rules

Posted: 19 Feb 2022 09:00 AM PST https://radioinsight.com/headlines/220129/fcc-report-2-20-seven-changes-made-to-technical-rules/


The FCC has adopted seven changes to its rules to better reflect current developments in the radio industry and ensure that our technical rules are accurate, up-to-date, and consistent.

The first change removes the maximum rated transmitter power limit for AM stations with the agency affirming their conclusion that an equipment limitation on transmitter power is outdated and unnecessary given our
current reliance on actual operating antenna input power as the most
accurate and effective means of ensuring that AM stations adhere to their authorized power limits.

The second change is to eliminate inconsistencies in the non-commercial FM
band for the requirements of community of license coverage. Conflicting
rules currently state that NCE stations must cover “at least a portion of
the community of license” or 50% of their community of license or 50% of
the population in their community with a 60 dBu signal strength predicted contour. To create consistency, applicants must now show that their
predicted 60 dBu contour will cover at least 50% of the relevant community
of license or reach 50% of the population within the community.

Next the FCC has agreed not to adopt the proposal to eliminate the rule
change proposing

the use of FM transmitting antennas in the immediate vicinity (i.e. 60
meters or less) of other FM or TV broadcast antennas must include a showing
as to the expected effect, if any, of such approximate operation.” But it
is changing the typo created in 1984 to replace approximate with the
original wording of proximate.

The FCC also amends the definition of “AM fill-in area” for FM translators to define the area as “The area within the greater of the 2 mV/m daytime contour of the AM radio broadcast station being rebroadcast or a 25–mile
(40 km) radius centered at the AM transmitter site” as opposed to the
lesser.

Other changes include updating the signal strength contour overlap
requirements for NCE FM Class D stations to harmonize with the less
restrictive contour overlap requirements applicable to all other NCE FM
station classes, eliminating the requirement that stations operating
between 76-100MHz protect grandfathered common carrier services in Alaska,
and distance separations between U.S. station and stations in Canada and
Mexico to reflect current treaty requirements.
FCC Actions

KBNP Inc. Business/Conservative Talk 1410 KBNP Portland OR has been issued
a Notice of Violation for failing to drop from its 5kW day power to its 9
watt night power at its required sunset time. Following a complaint, an FCC Enforcement Agent monitored KBNP on January 12 when it was required to drop power at 5:00 and observed zero change in power between 4 and 6pm.

The FCC has entered into Consent Decrees with the following licensees for failing to maintain their online public files:

Ashley Communications, Inc. licensee of KLCY and KVEL Vernal UT
Kyros Media Corp. licensee of KWXW Kermit TX
Pescadero Public Radio Service, Inc. licensee of KPDO Pescadero CA
Wayland Baptist College licensee of KWLD Plainview TX

Deletions

Monticello Media has turned in the license for 710 WFNR Blacksburg VA. WFNR went silent in January 2019 before resuming operation in January 2020 from
a temporary longwire antenna on the site of co-owned 1460 WRAD Radford.
That station had taken over the News/Talk programming heard on WFNR when it went silent in 2019.
FM Changes

SBS Spanish CHR El Zol 106.7 WXDJ Fort Lauderdale/Miami applies
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