<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?><rss version='2.0' xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'><channel><atom:link href='http://www.theradiojournal.com/headlinefeed.asp' rel='self' type='application/rss+xml' /><title>Radio Journal Headlines</title><link>http://www.theradiojournal.com/</link><description>Lastest Headlines</description><lastBuildDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:07:48 GMT</lastBuildDate><language>en-us</language><item><title>Storm damage hits the northeast.   </title><link>http://www.theradiojournal.com</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[| Staff at Saga`s Manchester, NH cluster are packing boxes and preparing to operate out of temporary offices for the next few months after their offices were hit with hurricane-force winds.  Early Friday morning, winds topping 75 mph curled back sections of the 100-year-old mill building`s roof, bursting sprinkler system pipes open and dumping water into the station`s top-floor offices for more than an hour. GM Ray Garon says as much as 60,000 gallons of water poured into the station.  Damage would have likely been far worse if program director Dave Ashton wasn`t in the building at the late hour dealing with a power outage that knocked adult standards WFEA off the air. ``He heard this enormous bang, and the alarm started going off,`` Garon says. Ashton got out of the building without injury and was able to call the fire department. Fortunately, the roof blew open over the station`s restrooms and not the studios filled with electronics. ``We`ve managed to preserve four studios and have kept the radio station on the air from here,`` Garon tells our sister publication Inside Radio. But Saga was forced to relocate the WZID (95.7) morning show to a conference room at nearby WMUR-TV. With thousands without power in the storm, Garon says he`s proud they were able to be there for listeners regardless of their own trouble. Everybody has stepped up to the plate and we`re getting through this,`` he says.]]></description></item><item><title>More storm damage up and down the coast. </title><link>http://www.theradiojournal.com</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[| Maine Public Broadcasting`s WMEP, Camden, ME (90.5) will be off the air for several weeks while repairs are made to ``significant`` storm damage to the station`s antenna atop Ragged Mountain and to the power lines leading up to the site. Power outages also silenced many other stations in New England and New York during the storms late last week, including several signals in the Hudson Valley north of NYC.]]></description></item><item><title>Would-be Florida pirate dies in the attempt. </title><link>http://www.theradiojournal.com</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[| Unlicensed broadcasting isn`t just illegal - it can also be very dangerous. A Florida man found that out the hard way when the FM antenna he was installing atop a home near Fort Lauderdale came into contact with an overhead power line. 27-year-old Mareus Mackenson, who`d moved from Haiti to South Florida in 2008, was electrocuted. Mackenson`s family says he operated ``Radio Tendresse,`` which boasts an FM frequency of ``97.7`` on its website - but they say he`d never actually been on the air on FM, and that ``Radio Tendresse`` operated only on the web.]]></description></item><item><title>Telos founder to receive NAB engineering award. </title><link>http://www.theradiojournal.com</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[| Steve Church, who founded Telos Systems and still serves as the company`s CEO, is the NAB`s pick for this year`s Radio Engineering Achievement Award. Church is being honored for achievements that include the first uses of digital audio (in the original Telos 10 hybrid) and MP3 technology in studio products, as well as the development of the Livewire audio-over-IP system. Church will receive his award Wednesday, April 14 at the NAB Technology Luncheon in Las Vegas. The NAB will also honor Mark Richer, president of the Advanced Television Systems Committee, with the television Engineering Achievement Award.]]></description></item><item><title>New twelve-tower AM granted in Fresno. </title><link>http://www.theradiojournal.com</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[| The FCC has granted several long-pending applications for new AM facilities, including John Ostlund`s application for a new station licensed to Easton, California, just outside Fresno. The new station on 1150 would run just 260 watts by day, non-directional from one tower of Ostlund`s KYNO, Fresno (1300). At night, it would go to a full 5000 watts, beamed from a site northeast of Fresno across the city to Easton, southwest of town. But making that happen would require a whopping 12-tower array, something even Ostlund acknowledges probably won`t happen. He tells the Fresno Bee he`s looking to simplify his tower-site needs - especially because he`s also in the process of trading that KYNO signal on 1300 for what`s now KWRU (940).]]></description></item><item><title>New AM grants in Washington State, Minnesota also. </title><link>http://www.theradiojournal.com</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[| The FCC also granted applications for two other new AMs last week: in Chanhassen, Minnesota, Langer Broadcasting gets a CP for a new signal on 1200 that will provide fringe service to the southwest corner of the Twin Cities metro. That new signal will run 1300 watts by day, non-directional, and 1000 watts at night into a four-tower directional array. And in Yelm, Washington, Brian Butler holds a shiny new CP for 10-kw days, 6-kw at night on 1120, using the same three-tower array day and night. By day, that new signal on 1120 will reach Olympia to the west and Tacoma to the north; at night, it will have to fight a massive 51 NIF, almost entirely from nearby KPNW, Eugene, OR, and will serve only a rural corner of eastern Thurston County.]]></description></item><item><title>Oregon scam artist`s growing list of targets now includes deceased station owner. </title><link>http://www.theradiojournal.com</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[|   Sandra Soho is currently serving a 38-month prison term following her conviction of stealing public assistance.  But it wasn`t just welfare checks she allegedly was after - it was radio licenses. Last fall the FCC said she stole an Oregon man`s identity and operated oldies ``The Rat`` KRAT, Altamont (97.7) under his name for years. Last month, the FCC canceled the license for KBUG, Malin (100.5) which was owned by Malin Christian Church. The church`s sole director was Soho. In what appears to be one more in a growing list of scam revelations, it appears now-deceased KRAM, West Klamath, OR (1070) owner Sandra Falk was also a victim. Falk owned KRAM from 1996 until her death in 1996, after which time it was Soho who was listed as sole beneficiary. But the State of Oregon stepped in and petitioned the courts for her removal on the grounds she defrauded Falk`s survivors. A Klamath Circuit Court judge turned KRAM over to trustee Scott MacArthur to sell the 1,000-watt daytimer. But that`s where the trouble with the FCC apparently began...]]></description></item><item><title>+So long, KRAM. </title><link>http://www.theradiojournal.com</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[| A year later, the FCC inquired into what was going on with the station and learned it had been off the air since Falk died.  Then last July, MacArthur put KRAM back on the air from a new, unauthorized tower site. But the FCC ordered the station off the air, saying after three years without operation KRAM`s license had been canceled. While the expiration is a matter of law, the FCC does make exemptions ``to promote equity and fairness.`` But Audio Division chief Peter Doyle says in this case it is standing firm since the station was off the air for nearly four years, and when it signed back on it wasn`t from its allowed tower site.]]></description></item><item><title>Tribal objection slows tower reconstruction in South Dakota. </title><link>http://www.theradiojournal.com</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[| A January ice storm brought down a 53-year-old tower near Reliance, South Dakota that was home to KPLO-TV (Channel 6) and KPLO-FM (94.5), silencing both stations for more than a month. (KPLO-FM has retained service to nearby Pierre by way of a translator.) While a temporary tower is going up to get the signals back on the air, the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe is fighting Young Broadcasting`s plans to rebuild the 712-foot tower. Tribal officials tell the Mitchell Daily Republic they`ve sent a letter to the FCC asking the stations to find a location other than Medicine Butte. The hill is outside the boundaries of tribal land, but the Lower Brule Sioux say it`s a sacred site that was part of the tribe`s historic lands. It`s also home to at least three other towers of significant height, including a 1325-foot tower belonging to South Dakota Public Broadcasting`s KTSD-TV/FM.]]></description></item><item><title>Admonishment for a paper license renewal. </title><link>http://www.theradiojournal.com</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[| Fairview Broadcasting got slapped by the FCC back in 2007 for failing to file its 2004 license renewal for WPFD, Fairview, TN (850). Fairview appealed the $7,000 Notice of Apparent Liability, arguing that it had in fact submitted a renewal form on time - only on paper, instead of electronically. Fairview says it was ``unaware of the electronic filing requirement.`` The FCC says that`s still not a valid excuse, but it reduces WPFD`s fine to an admonishment and renews WPFD`s license.]]></description></item><item><title>Frequency change in Pensacola. </title><link>http://www.theradiojournal.com</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[| Miracle Radio`s WPNN, Pensacola, FL is applying to move one notch down the dial from 790 to 780. If granted, WPNN would trade its present non-directional facility on the west side of Pensacola for a diplex on the day site of WEBY, Milton, FL (1330), across Escambia Bay. WPNN`s daytime power would increase from 1-kw to 3-kw, adding some additional coverage to the north. At night, WPNN would give up its existing 66-watt operation, becoming a strict daytimer. The move is made possible by the Feb. 13 expiration of the CP for unbuilt WHOA, Saraland, AL (770), which would have been a 38-kw daytimer serving the Mobile area.]]></description></item><item><title>Nebraska FM seeks Sioux City move-in. </title><link>http://www.theradiojournal.com</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[| Wayne Radio Works` KCTY, Wayne, NE (104.9) is presently a 25-kw/302` C3 located 35 miles west of Sioux City in rural northeastern Nebraska. Now applying for a tower move in Hubbard, NE, less than 10 miles from downtown Sioux City. From there, it would be a C3 (25-kw/328`), licensed to Emerson, NE.]]></description></item><item><title>How many stations are licensed - and what day is it? </title><link>http://www.theradiojournal.com</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[| There was a time when the FCC put out a regular count of the number of broadcast stations licensed, sometimes even on a monthly basis. More recently, those statistics have been missing for long stretches, with quarterly summaries occasionally appearing as much as a year behind schedule. Last week, the FCC issued totals for the third and fourth quarters of 2009, showing more than 30,000 broadcast facilities now licensed, including more than 14,000 full-power AM and FM stations, more than 6,000 FM translators and some 864 low-power FMs at year`s end. What`s still missing at the FCC, it seems, is an accurate calendar: the third-quarter report lists ``Broadcast Station Totals as of September 31, 2009.``]]></description></item><item><title>Canada This Week - Three new FM relays for Regina`s CJME. </title><link>http://www.theradiojournal.com</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[| When Canada`s regulators approve FM relays for an AM station, they`re usually low-power signals meant to alleviate specific reception issues in small areas. But Rawlco`s talker CJME, Regina, SK (980) has just been approved for three new 100-kw signals that will cover a broad swath of southern Saskatchewan. Rawlco made the case to the CRTC by promising that the signals will provide a new source of provincial programming to rural areas that are underserved by local radio signals. Adding to Rawlco`s case was a letter of support from Golden West, which operates several of the local stations in the areas CJME will reach with its new FM relays. They`ll operate on 101.7 in Swift Current, 107.1 in Gravelbourg and 107.3 in Warmley.]]></description></item><item><title>Newcap withdraws an Alberta AM-to-FM application. </title><link>http://www.theradiojournal.com</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[| We`ve written before about the saga of CKKY, Wainwright, AB (830), which was turned down on its first bid for an FM slot because of concerns about overlap with two nearby FMs that are co-owned. Newcap resubmitted its application with a directional antenna to avoid the overlap - but last week, it withdrew that application from CRTC consideration, without explanation. As long as CKKY remains on AM, it prevents another Newcap station, CFCW, Camrose, AB, from making its already-approved move from 790 to 840, which would alleviate nighttime interference from several U.S. signals on 790.]]></description></item></channel></rss>