ZoneCasting Now Fully Permissible Under FCC Rules | Radio & Television Business Report

ZoneCasting Now Fully Permissible Under FCC Rules | Radio & Television Business Report

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The use of a FM booster station to originate programming in order to bring Geo Broadcast Services’ ZoneCasting technology to its full fruition is now wholly allowable for those operators who wish to invest in it. Thanks to the publication in the Federal Register on Friday of the notice of the effective date for modified sections 73.3526, 73.3527, and 74.1204, as amended in the Geocasting Second R&O, as well as the effective da…

FCC Monitor: Future Janesville FM Changes Transmitter Site

The following are updates to previously-reported items and other recent regulatory filings and actions concerning Upper Midwest broadcast stations. This report is created by the author and is not an official report of the FCC. Iowa The FCC and Second Generation of Iowa have entered into a consent decree to resolve concerns about an ad for Hot Wheels that ran during the children’s program “Team Hot Wheels” on KFXA/28.1 (Cedar Rapids). The ads air…

FCC Report 7/27: FM Booster Origination Rule Changes Take Effect

FCC Actions The FCC set the launch date for the new rules allowing FM booster program origination as Friday, July 25 with the rules being published in the federal register. The rules allow a booster of a full-powered FM or LPFM to originate up to three minutes of programming per hour. The time can not…