Today, the Audio Division of the Federal Communications Commission has swept the whole KUSF case under the rug with a miniscule $50K handslap and a granted transfer application.

In this modern day of the FCC, they find it more convenient to reach a "consent decree", sort of a plea bargain in the communications world instead of truly investigating potential wrongdoing. 

To prepare for the many steps that will be involved in Auction 83 processing as well as having the most up to date status information available for the next LPFM filing window, starting on Friday, June 8, 2012, REC Broadcast Services will update the status of all broadcast applications from the FCC's Consolidated Database System (CDBS).

On Tuesday through Friday mornings at 2AM REC Operations Time (same as MST in Arizona), 5AM EDT, REC will update the FCC's application tracking file in the our database.

The Low Power FM (LPFM) Fifth Report and Order was published in the Federal Register on April 5, 2012.  The final rules will go into effect next Monday, June 4, 2012.

This R&O amends section 73.807 of the rules to remove third adjacent channel spacing requirements between LPFM staitons and most full power FM stations and FM translators. 

REC Networks has announced today the beta test launch of RECPRO, a text-based "professional" version of the REC broadcast tools. RECPRO will be used mainly inside REC but will make it also available to a limited number of individuals and organizations.

RECPRO "unbundles" many of the elements of the LPFM Channel Search and Broadcast Query tools. Instead of using a web browser, RECPRO will use a secure shell interface (SSH) such as PuTTY for access. RECPRO will offer faster search results than with the web-based tools.

RECPRO will eventually allow users to "build" and "maintain" their stations by being able to save their station or proposed station data for future retrieval.

Now that the comment and reply comment period are over, the FCC has a lot of work cut out for them. 

Over these next few months, the FCC is going to continue reviewing the comments received throughout April and the reply comments received in May.  While there is no set timeline on when the FCC must issue the Sixth Report and Order with the final rules from the various LPFM proposals discussed in the Fifth Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (that we just finished commenting on), the FCC's Audio Division consider getting these final rules out "a major priority".