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Greetings from your broadcast friends out on the Desert…
This is BDR Newsletter 878, Volume 17, #45 for June 10, 2026

FCC CAN ISSUE FINES
A recent Supreme Court ruling upholds the FCC’s right to levy fines against stations and companies for violations of the Rules and Regulations. The case, involving the major wireless carriers and the sale of customers’ real-time location data without safeguards or consent, affected millions of cellular users. The carriers claimed they were unjustly denied a jury trial before the fines were set.

At base, the decision says, yes, the FCC can levy fines. And, recipients of NALFs (Notice of Apparent Liability) have choices. They can pay the imposed amount. They can hire an attorney to appeal and, if denied are incorporated into a Consent Decree, pay the money. The choice clarified by the Supreme Court was, the violator could refuse to pay. The FCC has no other authority at that point but to turn the case over to the Department of Justice for collection. If the refusal to pay continues, and the DoJ initiates court proceedings then the violator could seek a jury trial. All a bit complex, but affirms the FCC can levy fines.

THAT PART 11 REWRITE MAY WELL HAPPEN
Long promised, the cyber security issue has led the FCC to put Part 11, regarding the EAS, in the spotlight, with some major changes on the table. At this month’s Open Meeting, it is anticipated they will vote to issue a proposed Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM).

MAINTENANCE TIPS AND MORE
Everyone has – or should have – a maintenance program tailored to their needs that they use to keep their station(s) running at full potential. On the other hand, an outside opinion can often point out a thing or two that will make your maintenance program better. Join us tomorrow (Thursday) for an informative presentation from Brian Szewczyk, Regional Sales Manager and Dan Carcopo of GatesAir. They have produced a great way to look at maintaining both air-cooled and water-cooled transmitters.

As always, we are getting together at 2PM on Thursday (tomorrow). The link request – and list of older videos – is available at www.theBDR.net/TLG/ We hope to see you this week!

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