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Greetings from your broadcast friends out on the Desert…
This is BDR Newsletter 791, Volume 16, #11 for October 16, 2024

Here are some things you might want to know about:

A NEW WINDOW
The FCC has released a Public Notice regarding a filing window for new NCE TV stations, full power and Class A. The one week Window starts on December 4th.

FORM ONE: LAST CALL
Just a quickie for those who planned this, but forgot: The extended date for filing your Form One on the ETRS is this week, October 18th.

COMMERCIAL DOWN AND NON-COMMERICAL UP
In another Public Notice, The FCC released its quarterly count of broadcast stations, noting a decrease in commercial stations and an increase in NCEFM’s.

TOWER 2, BALLOONS 1
Nearly 20 years to the day, a balloon in the Albuquerque Balloon Festival flew into the KKOB main tower. Unlike 2004, though, the tower did not survive.

IS ANYTHING SECURE?
A set of government computers were hacked by bad guys. Not so unusual, you think? How about if you knew the computers were air-gapped? Our goal this week is to discuss some of the ways that computer systems get compromised and what to do about it.


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