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Greetings from your broadcast friends out on the Desert…
This is BDR Newsletter 846, Volume 17, #13 for October 29, 2025

SHUTDOWN CONTINUES – ALMOST
This week, although officially still closed, the FCC convened its regular Open Meeting. The main item of interest to broadcasters is the 5th NPRM regarding ATSC 3.0, with efforts to accelerate the move to NextGen – changing the currently required simulcasting with ATSC 1.0 to voluntary, so each station can decide when to make changes.

There was also some discussion on making caller ID more reliable.

NCE ALERT!
At this time of difficult financing, a few non-commercial stations have discovered a scam being played on GoFundMe. Apparently, more than a few. Non-profit Connect wrote: “Recently, GoFundMe, the crowdfunding platform, created donation pages for 1.4 million nonprofit organizations without their knowledge or consent.” 

It may be worthwhile for your organization to check.

C-BAND 2.0
The arguments continue about how much of the upper C-Band the FCC will see to auction. Avation and cellular trade associations have told the FCC they are now comfortable with the the latest mobile/altimeter coexistence proposals, and would see 180 MHz auctioned off from satellite services.

Tomorrow (Thursday) we welcome Mark Johnson from Link Up Communications to clarify reports, let us know the current mood at the FCC, and answer any questions you have.

Join us and learn things.

As usual, we meet at 2 PM Eastern (11 AM Pacific) on Thursday. Link requests are easily found at www.theBDR.net/TLG/ Our videos are also shown on the youtube.com/thebdrnet channel.