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With the March 1, 2018 Online Public Inspection File deadline for mid-sized and smaller market (and non-commercial) radio stations approaching, Fletcher, Heald, & Hildreth’s Frank Montero and Steve Lovelady recently presented a webinar to help industry professionals navigate through the online filing process. In... Read More.

The last two seminars in the CBA's 6-part series focusing on attracting, recruiting & retaining Millennial professionals will be at KMGH-TV on November 9th from 10am to 2:15pm.  The presentations are a collaboration with University of Colorado Colorado Springs instructor Scott Van Ness.  Scott... Read More.

The IEEE Broadcast Technology Society and the Association of Federal Communications Consulting Engineers will award scholarships of up to $10,000 to promising undergraduate and graduate students at accredited U.S. universities interested in a career in broadcast engineering. Applications for Spring 2018 semester will be accepted... Read More.

The Bureau announces the release of a revised EAS Operating Handbook. A copy of the Handbook must be located at normal duty positions or EAS equipment locations when an operator is required to be on duty and be immediately available to staff responsible for... Read More.

from Dan Kirkpatrick of Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth As Egon said in Ghosbusters, “print is dead.” Okay, that may be a bit of an overstatement.  But at least as to many broadcast stations’ local public inspection files, it is essentially true as of today.  Back in January,... Read More.

By Jeffrey A. Roberts CFOIC Executive Director When Gov. John Hickenlooper signed Senate Bill 17-040 on Thursday, he ratified a long-overdue update to the Colorado Open Records Act, which hadn’t been modernized in more than 20 years. The new CORA provision clarifies the... Read More.

from Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth Just in time for the unofficial start of summer, the FCC has issued its 2017 Regulatory Fee Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), beginning a process that culminates with the payment of regulatory fees sometime between late... Read More.

Bingham Farms, MI --  In Jacobs Media's new web study of radio listeners, a big story is how radio’s traditional listening locations – the home, the car, and the workplace – are undergoing change. From content consumed to new distribution outlets to emerging gadgetry, the... Read More.

Bonneville International’s 98.5 KYGO Denver/Boulder welcomes Guy David to Co-Host mornings with Tracy Dixon 5am-9am.  “I am beyond excited to work with Tracy,” David said. “It’s an absolute honor to be at KYGO and Bonneville.... Read More.

The links below provide documents outlining the obligations for all webcasters in 2017 under the statutory license applicable to webcasting. There are three separate documents: one for Commercial Webcasters, one for Noncommercial Webcasters, and one for Noncommercial Educational Webcasters. The attachments provide information to identify and... Read More.