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Great. We now have a new FCC site to put up with.

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It's so great I haven't even been able to figure out how to search for AM and FM stations. This sucks almost as much as the FCC itself does. It's all pretty colors and no easy functionally...
 
Thanks for the direct links.

If you go to the Tools section of the new site, you'll notice that all broadcast-related links are dead, but by Jingo, the Broadband links all work!

But we already knew where broadcasting stands with this Commission. Nowhere.
 
Amen to that. All we seem good for now is to provide EAS, at our cost to the public, pay fees/auction fees for new spectrum, and be a warehouse from which to STEAL for the broadband community. Time and time again broadcasters save thousands of lives and this has been what we've been degraded to. Sad...
 
Let's also remember we "got our licenses for free" back in the day, oh 5 or so owners ago at least. We as an industry get away scott-free on everything in our "friends" in Washington's eyes it seems. We get our music to broadcast free of course (I don't know about anyone else, but ACRAP, BMI, SESACKS, etc. sure aren't FREE). We don't obviously "serve the community" nearly enough. In their mind we are to have local humans at the beck and call of every Emergency Management rep in every little town from here to heck in gone to "run the EAS alert" to save lives 24/7/365. Yeah. I don't know about you guys, but we can't even get most EM folks to participate. In most states we have to go through heck to get them to run the tests. After hours? LOL! They are nowhere to be found. One tanker spill in the Northwest and CC didn't run an EAS because NO ONE AT THE EM BOTHERED TO PLAN AHEAD and it's every broadcasters fault over 6 years later. But because the "evil big corporations" own radio stations now, they must be evil and getting away scott-free on everything and "not serving the public". That's the preception these days. How do we get the public to go fight these guys? We have one heck of a bad image that we truely as an industry DO NOT deserve. Even if the big guys are "evil", how many small market guys are right there for the public each and every day as small businesses? We have to get our story out. We aren't squeeking nearly enough to get some grease anymore in our wheels. The FCC site re-design is just another shining example of how little we new mean to these guys.
 
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