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Report: Black-owned Radio Stations See Less Ad Money

Posted: 06 Jun 2022 02:18 PM PDT https://www.radioworld.com/uncategorized/report-black-owned-radio-stations-see-less-ad-money





The Black Owned Radio Stations Ownership & Revenue Report offers
broadcasters and stakeholders an inside look at specific station revenue
and audience metrics.

Courtesy of the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters (NABOB)
and BIA Advisory Services, the report analyzes advertising spending and
asks, How many advertising dollars are currently being expended with Black-owned radio stations?

This report answers that question, and the answer is very simple – too few, said Jim Winston, NABOB president.

Of the 168 stations researched, 121 (72%) gross less than $1 million per
year in advertising revenue and average just 2.8% of Local Commercial
Share, according to the report.

The financial information provided in this BIA report sharply illustrates
the lack of financial support that Black-owned stations are receiving in comparison to their general market competitors, said Winston.

Winston said he hopes this information will inspire the advertising
industry to invest in NABOB member stations.

BIA Advisory Services said, before now, the industry did not have an authoritative record of these 100-plus stations, nor their economic
standing.

With this report, NABOB and BIA provide a benchmark study and data set that will facilitate targeted investment by radio advertisers seeking to reach
the audiences served by these stations,” said Rick Ducey, managing director at BIA.

To learn more, download the 2022 Black Owned Radio Stations Ownership &
Revenue Report here or tune into BIA’s “Leading Local Insights” podcast.


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EAS Rule Changes Take Effect

Posted: 06 Jun 2022 11:44 AM PDT https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/headlines/eas-rule-changes-take-effect


New rules concerning state EAS plans that we told you about last year are
now officially in effect.

Last June, the FCC released an order implementing provisions of the
National Defense Authorization Act for 2021. It adopted rules to improve
both the Emergency Alert system and Wireless Emergency Alerts.

But aspects of those changes had to be approved by the Office of Management
and Budget.

The Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau now has issued an update.

Compliance with the following rules is required as of today, June 6, 2022:

The section of FCC rules requiring commission approval or rejection of
state EAS plans in 60 days;
The section requiring annual submission of state EAS plans;
The section requiring annual certification by State Emergency
Communications Committees that the SECC met at least once in the prior year
to review and update the state EAS plan before filing;
The section facilitating EAS false alert reporting by government entities;
And the section facilitating WEA false alert reporting by government
entities.


Meanwhile, the rule requiring Commercial Mobile Service providers to update handset displays consistent with the name change from Presidential Alerts
to National Alerts takes effect at the end of July.

The FCC said questions should be directed to Chris Fedeli of the Public
Safety and Homeland Security Bureau’s Policy and Licensing Division at christopher.fedeli@fcc.gov.

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Arizona Western College Gets a CP

Posted: 06 Jun 2022 11:31 AM PDT https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/business-and-law/arizona-western-college-gets-a-cp


There are clear processes that must be followed when the FCC chooses the
winner of a noncommercial educational FM station construction permit from
among mutually exclusive applications. 

The commission reiterated that process in a case that arose from the recent filing window for new NCE FMs. The upshot is that Arizona Western College
now has a CP in the community of Quartzsite.

The Media Bureau had chosen the college as the a tentative winner from a mutually exclusive group that also included Remanente Broadcasting Network (RBN) and the Association for Community Education (ACE), known collectively
as NCE MX Group 22. 

After conducting a fair distribution analysis, the bureau selected AWC
because it would provide a new second NCE service to at least 5,000 more
people than the RBN application. It also rejected the application from ACE because it failed to satisfy a 2,000-person minimum threshold. 

But an objection was filed by Albert Adam David of Berwyn, Ill., in April. 

He argued that the bureau should have selected ACE because it qualifies for
a “first aural reception service preference,” so the bureau should not have considered the first and second NCE preference claims of the other two applicants. 

David argued that the bureau failed to follow its own review guidelines as
laid out in its Procedures Public Notice. And he said the FCC’s Allotments Report and Order supports his argument. 

“[The] first aural service to a population of 223 people would be of a greater benefit to the public interest [rather than] either of the
competing proposals, which merely propose second noncommercial educational service,” he wrote. 

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AWC responded, saying the analysis for Group 22 was correct because the commission only considers first aural service when one of the MX applicants claims a tribal priority. David then replied that it is not in the public interest do it that way because it would create a system that is
inconsistent and inequitable. 

But the commission disagreed. It said it has been clear regarding its
process. When applicants in an NCE MX FM group propose to serve different communities, it performs a threshold fair distribution analysis to
determine whether grant of any of the applications would best further the objectives laid out in the Communications Act to provide “fair, efficient
and equitable distribution” of the broadcast service.

It explained that its first step is to determine whether any applicants in
the MX group are part of a federally recognized Native American tribe or
Alaska native village proposing to serve tribal lands. If not, the second
step is to determine whether any applicant would provide a first or second reserved band channel NCE aural service to a substantial population. In
that case, it said, a first or second service to fewer than 2,000 people
would be considered insignificant. 

It also declined David’ several other arguments and reviewed the process by which it makes these determinations. You can read the case here.

In short the commission has denied the informal objection by David,
dismissed the applications of RBN and ACE, and granted a construction
permit for a new NCE FM station in Quartzsite, Ariz., to Arizona Western College. 

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FCC Flags Apparent Pirate in Baltimore

Posted: 06 Jun 2022 07:04 AM PDT https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/business-and-law/fcc-flags-apparent-pirate-in-baltimore


The Federal Communications Commission is continuing its efforts to push
back on alleged pirate radio operations through the threat of legal action against owners of properties where broadcasts take place.

The FCC Enforcement Bureau office in Columbia, Md., has sent a notice to a property owner in Baltimore saying that, in February, it traced unlicensed radio signals on 90.3 MHz to that location.

The property is owned by LPK Shipping. “Publicly available records identify you as the owner of the property at the Park Heights Avenue Property,” the bureau wrote in a letter to the attention of Sharif J. Small. “The FCC’s records show no license issued for operation of a radio broadcast station
on 90.3 MHz at this location.”

The law now provides that people or entities that permit someone to engage
in pirate broadcasting on their property can face significant financial penalties, including a fine of up to $2 million.

The recipient has 10 business days to respond “by providing evidence that
you are no longer permitting pirate radio broadcasting to occur” at the property. “In addition, we request that you identify the individual(s) engaged in pirate radio broadcasting on the property that you own or
manage.”

[Related: “FCC Sends Pirate Notices to Property Landlords”]



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TDF Film Details DAB+ Antenna Hoist

Posted: 06 Jun 2022 06:19 AM PDT https://www.radioworld.com/global/tdf-film-details-dab-antenna-hoist


Back in March, the addition of a new antenna to improve DAB+ broadcasts in Paris’s Île de France region added six meters to the iconic Eiffel Tower. The project was spearheaded by French transmission company TDF, which
manages the radio and television broadcasting infrastructure on the tower.

Recently, TDF released a short video “La Tour Eiffel Grandit — Le Film Official” (The Eiffel Tower Grows — The Official Film) detailing how it completed the project, which involved using a helicopter to hoist the new
DAB+ antenna to the top of the then 324-meter-tall tower.

The video is in French with French-language subtitles, but YouTube can
provide a passible automatic translation into other languages (just click
the CC button to turn on closed captions, then click the settings cog
wheel, select subtitles/CC, then select “auto-translate” and your preferred language).



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