[BC] Sign of the times?

[Harold Hallikainen]

A few links to review:

http://sujan.hallikainen.org/FCC/FccRules/2006/73/1125/  Main studio
location rule

http://www.hallikainen.org/FCC/FccRules/CiteFind/0731125.htm FCC website
documents citing 73.1125

http://sujan.hallikainen.org/rw/insite/insite95.html A history of the main
studio rule

http://sujan.hallikainen.org/FCC/FccRules/2006/73/3526/ Commerical station
PIF rule

http://www.hallikainen.org/FCC/FccRules/CiteFind/0733526.htm FCC website
documents citing 73.3526

http://sujan.hallikainen.org/FCC/FccRules/2006/73/3527/ NCE station PIF rule

http://www.hallikainen.org/FCC/FccRules/CiteFind/0733527.htm FCC website
documents citing 73.3527.

Harold


> There is still the main studio rule which requires that a station have:
>
> 1) A physical point of presence located within 25 miles of the community
> of
> license or the city grade contour of any Part 73 license with that
> community of license, including a TV station. (loophole...being done
> here...) which can place live programming on the station
>
> 2) A local phone number which either rings at the main studio or forwards
> to the control point of the station. The rule is ambiguous as it relates
> to
> the type of phone line being fixed or cellular. So long as the call is
> considered a local call to those in the community of license.
>
> 3) A full time employee considered a manager who staffs that point of
> presence on a regular basis during business hours, plus one other
> employee--full or part time.
>
> 4) The Public File available for inspection during regular business hours.
>
> A station which doesn't meet <all> of the above conditions is in violation
> of the Main Studio rule. However. there is no requirement which states all
> business be transacted from the main studio location. A truly mobile sales
> force is not in violation and is actually becoming more common with
> portable equipment and very diverse/dispersed field staff's which don't
> require hard office space.  It's not that uncommon these days for
> companies
> with large field staffs to have 2 or 3 people for every desk/cube and that
> many cubes are pooled.  Their private files and such are either in
> "lockers" or cabinets issued to the employee, and the phones programmed to
> react to a password which the employee enters when "claiming" that cube
> for
> the day.
>
> None the less, the owners of this station are extending their necks out
> pretty far into the guillotine if they are in violation of the main studio
> rule.  That is one rule violation which the licensee has a hard time
> proving their actions weren't "willful". And willful action that
> frequently
> places licensee's candor in question.
>
> MM
>
>
> At 12:01 PM 10/4/2005 -0400, Mark Bulla wrote
>> From the DCRTV (www.dcrtv.org/mailbag.html) website:
>>-------------------------------------------------------
>>Is it now possible to run a radio station without any studio or offices?
>>The reason I ask is because the offices for WDMV seemed to have
>>disappeared from Random Hills Road in Fairfax. Their phone (703) 934-6300
>>has been disconnected and all of the numbers listed now are cell phone
>>numbers. When I tried to buy time, the person I talked to said they would
>>come to my office, but wouldn't meet me at the studio. It appears that
>> all
>>shows now come from remote locations (including Greaseman from his house)
>>and go right to the transmitter in Frederick , MD. The sales staff seem
>> to
>>all have offices in their cars and are dispatched when someone calls them
>>to inquire about commercial rates. I wonder if any other stations do
>> this.
>>(10/3/05)
>>--------------------------------------------------------
>>--
>>Mark D. Bulla - Chief Engineer
>>WNUV WB-54
>>2000 W 41st Street
>>Baltimore, MD  21211
>>t: 410-467-8854
>>f: 410-662-4886
>
>
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