General Session –
Tower Lighting, Check!
Frequency, Check!
Public Inspection File, Online!

Presented by:
Blake Thompson, CBNT, BET Broadcast Engineering
Frank Maynard, CPBE, Maynard and Associates
Scott Cason, KBA & LaGrange Communications
Matt Lightner, Lightner Electronics Inc.

Is your station in full compliance with the latest recommendations from the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE)? Stations used to rely on the FCC’s Self- Inspection Checklists to ensure that they were in compliance with FCC rules and regulations. However, the guides became outdated when FCC stopped updating the checklists some years ago.

In 2022, SBE undertook the project of reviewing and revising the guides. In partnership with the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), new guides were released for FM radio and TV, and most recently, for AM radio. In addition to documenting rules and regulations, the guides include recommended practices for policies and procedures to ensure overall station regulatory compliance. These new checklists are now the foundation of state ABIP inspections.

This panel will feature ABIP inspectors from the Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Kentucky broadcasters’ associations reviewing key points in the revised guides and discussing frequent issues they see in station inspections. These are good reminders for even the most diligent stations!

 

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