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Uncle Charlie in Corpus Christi

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Rumor has it the FCC was in town this past week nosing around.

Anyone hear if they visited any broadcasters? Rumors abound about a van with lots of antennas.
 
clouseau said:
Rumor has it the FCC was in town this past week nosing around.

Anyone hear if they visited any broadcasters? Rumors abound about a van with lots of antennas.
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A FCC enforcement official was at the Texas Association of Broadcaster's Convention, and gave a session about "Staying Legal With the FCC." I believe his territory was Southeast Texas. It was a very interesting presentation. He asked if anyone had been inspected in the last year or two. Nobody had, or at least admitted to it.

He replied, "I didn’t think so," since their higher-ups had directed them to put their efforts on the DTV conversion. He said that now the DTV crisis is history, you could expect a lot more enforcement visits and random inspections.

Just a "heads up" warning...
 
I don't know if it works this way in Texas, but, here in Missouri, you can have a mock inspection conducted by the broadcasters' association and be, more or less, exempted from the FCC inspection for a certain period of time. A cluster I worked at about five years ago had the FCC show up for an inspection one afternoon, and I was told all we had to do was show them proof of successful completion of the mock inspection. I didn't get to witness it myself as I was arriving at work about when the field agents were leaving, but I didn't hear any EAS tests or the transmitter being turned off and back on.
 
Kent said:
I don't know if it works this way in Texas, but, here in Missouri, you can have a mock inspection conducted by the broadcasters' association and be, more or less, exempted from the FCC inspection for a certain period of time. A cluster I worked at about five years ago had the FCC show up for an inspection one afternoon, and I was told all we had to do was show them proof of successful completion of the mock inspection. I didn't get to witness it myself as I was arriving at work about when the field agents were leaving, but I didn't hear any EAS tests or the transmitter being turned off and back on.
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Yes, TAB offers that service to their members. There is a fee involved, but it might be money very well spent.
 
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