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Greetings from your broadcast friends out on the Desert…
This is BDR Newsletter 852, Volume 17, #19 for December 10, 2025

DDD IS MADE OFFICIAL
We have heard a lot in recent months about the Delete, Delete, Delete effort at the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC said this week that it has now officially closed the 2,048 inactive proceedings it had noted some weeks ago.

MAKING LISTS AND CHECKING THEM TWICE
As the year ends, a lot of lists are being made, both at work and at home. While the End of Year is not the deadline for everything, the relative pause in activity offers a good time to sit down and start a list of projects and site checks that will ensure the best operations into the new year. Take the list to the transmitter site, too, and make notes. What you see now may make projects go easier through the year.

2026 FOR SURE
Is your calendar running out of pages? Are you looking for a good broadcast Calendar to guide you through the year? Our friend John Schneider has announced the 2026 edition of the Radio Historian’s calendarm featuring fourteen high-resolution colorized photographs of radio broadcasting’s glorious 100+ year history. Additionally, each month’s calendar page commemorates important dates in radio history. Check it out here!

GETTING THE RIGHT WORDS OUT
This week in the communications industry, we would like to focus on communication. Yes, something that is often truly needed – but in at least two different directions. First: are we really getting the information our listeners/viewers need, especially in emergencies? And, second, are we communicating within the industry to ensure our systems are safe and secure? Last week we focused on equipment – and this is a theme we should always pay attention to – let’s add to that our efforts to ensure not only are our program streams secure, but we get the full information out to the public. Charles Helstein is out guest this week, and plans to share some simple but effective solutions.

Join us on Thursday at 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific. The link request is on www.theBDR.net/TLG/

DID YOU KNOW?
There are now some 200 videos from our weekly zoom meetings, covering a lot of topics, at no charge. An index to those videos is also on www.theBDR.net/TLG/