[BC] FCC and Secret Service

[Ron Castro]

Herb:  See this reference, and you'll see that the NTIA is delegated it's 
authority from the President, who can assign any government owned radio 
stations to any frequency.

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/roosa4.html

Ron Castro
Chief Technical Officer
Results Radio, LLC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mario Hieb, P.E." <mario at xmission.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 11:43 AM
Subject: [BC] FCC and Secret Service


> Partly true.
>
> The FCC is empowered by the Communications Act of 1934, an act of 
> Congress, not the executive branch. Also, Congress essentially runs the 
> FCC because they vote on their funding. No money, no FCC.
>
> Yes, the Secret Service probably has precedence over the FCC, they always 
> do pretty mach as they please. The irony of the situation was that it 
> wasn't Bryant Gumbels IFB that was affected, but the Olympic ski team 
> radios, which are required for team coaching and skier safety. The FIS, 
> which sanctions the event, will stop a race if the radios don't work. No 
> race, no people, and no need for the Secret Service; a strange Catch-22 
> that didn't seem to register with the Secret Service.
>
> The big tragedy was that the Secret Service was invited to every monthly 
> meeting of the frequency coordination committee. They came to only one. 
> They never asked me for my frequency list, which I would have happily 
> given to them. They didn't coordinate with the FCC through the NTIA. They 
> were "too important."
>
> Regarding the frequencies in question, I held licenses on those channels 
> for 1 1/2 years, and had them renewed twice. The FCC had three 
> opportunities to see the conflict, but didn't. Nor did they initiate 
> coordination with the NTIA, which they were supposed to have done.
>
> Even though the Secret Service behaves like big, stupid goons, I blame the 
> FCC for dropping the ball and being lazy bureaucrats, despite presidential 
> directives to cooperate fully in the interest of national pride and 
> security.
>
> There is a funny ending to the story. The federal government managed to 
> find a few hundred radios for the ski teams, only a fraction of which were 
> returned. The teams returned to their native countries with lovely parting 
> gifts!
>
> Mario
>
>
> At 12:07 PM 7/9/2005, you wrote:
>>Message: 27
>>Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:36:00 -0700
>>From: "Ron Castro" <ronc at sonic.net>
>>Subject: Re: [BC] Vigilantes
>>To: "Broadcast Radio Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
>>Message-ID: <02b801c584ac$ac68d540$6d01a8c0 at Ronlap>
>>Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
>>         reply-type=response
>>
>>The FCC is under the authority of the Executive Branch, and the
>>Commissioners serve at the convenience of the President, hence he, and the
>>US Secret Service, which is also under Executive authority, can overrule 
>>the
>>FCC.  The Secret Service is there to protect lives, not to make sure 
>>Bryant
>>Gumbel has a crystal clear IFB.
>>
>>Ron Castro
>>Chief Technical Officer
>>Results Radio, LLC
>
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