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- College Radio Advocate Urges FCC to Move NCE Translator Window
The recently announced August noncommercial FM translator window is drawing interest across many broadcast circles, including college and university stations. College Broadcasters Inc., an advocate for student-led media, believes the window is a golden opportunity for educational institutions in some areas to expand their signal reach. CBI’s issue? The window is happening over summer break, when many colleges and universities are nearly dormant. In March, when the commission sought comment on an NCE FM translator window, it said the window was tentatively scheduled for “late 2026.” Then, when it established restrictions for the translator window after mulling over those comments, it did not explicitly mention a timeline. That was on May 29. Finally, on June 17 — less than two months before the opening of the window — the commission announced the Aug. 11–25 filing dates. CBI submitted formal comments to the Federal Communications Commission within 24 hours of the public notice being issued. It is urging the FCC to reschedule the window to November or December, citing historical precedent. Every prior NCE and LPFM filing window, CBI said, has been held in October, November, December or February — periods when academic institutions are typically in session. Campuses often operate with much smaller staffs in the summer months, CBI posted on its LinkedIn page. Administrators with the authority to sign applications are often on reduced schedules. The organization also cited the need to retain consulting engineers and legal counsel, which often requires approval from university legal and governing offices. “That process takes months,” CBI warned. A summertime filing window, CBI argued, goes against the reasons the NCE reserved band was created: to protect educational and community broadcasters from being outcompeted by well-resourced operators. “This timeline seems to largely benefit religious broadcasters, always looking and ready to expand their reach,” CBI wrote. CBI invited student-led stations to send their own letters to the commission, including Chairman Brendan Carr and the Media Bureau staff. Radio World has also offered the opportunity to the Media Bureau for comment. [Do you receive the Radio World SmartBrief newsletter each weekday morning? We invite you to sign up here.] The post College Radio Advocate Urges FCC to Move NCE Translator Window appeared first on Radio World. [TheTopNews] Read More.48 mins ago - Tucker Carlson Says Trump Has Realized That ‘The Biggest Threat To His Adminis...
Tucker Carlson claimed on Wednesday that President Donald Trump understands that “the biggest threat” to the administration is Israel. Carlson delivered a lengthy monologue about Israel during the latest episode of The Tucker Carlson Show, where he has gradually turned against Trump. The former Fox News host’s support for Trump began to fully come apart in February, when the U.S. and Israel launched a war on Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly gave a presentation in the White House Situation Room weeks before the war and said that Iran was ripe for regime change. After the prime minister left the room, members of Trump’s inner circle cast doubt on Netanyahu’s claims, but the president went ahead with the war anyway. Despite a massive aerial bombardment, the Islamic Republic did not fall and has asserted control over the vital Strait of Hormuz. The Trump administration and Iran have signed a memorandum of understanding that has been criticized even by the president’s supporters as being too lenient on the country. In a post on X on Wednesday night, Carlson wrote: It took a while, but Donald Trump has finally figured out that the biggest threat to his administration is Israel. The post featured a video of Carlson’s show, which began with him slamming Israel. “Israel cajoled, convinced, threatened, however they did it, got the U.S. government to fight this war, a regime change war, in Iran on its behalf with it as a partner,” he said. “Israel and the United States partnered in this war. Different goals, but somehow a partnership.” Later on, Carlson added: But they’re not really partners. One country is many times the size of the other country, both in population, territory, and resources. They’re not even closely comparable. This is the elephant and the flea. And moreover, the little country is wholly, totally dependent on the big country for everything. For everything. For its economy. For its intelligence. And more than anything, for maintaining its territorial ambitions and providing for its defense. But the little country refuses to recognize that, both out of arrogance and because it’s in a state of total hysteria and can’t think straight. And so, that’s the rub, right there. The little country somehow has control over the future of the big country, but the big country is solely responsible for the little country being able to do anything at all. And… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - American Soldiers Claim Pete Hegseth Downplayed Severity of Iran War Wounds
AP Photo/Omar Havana On Wednesday, CBS News reported that two American soldiers wounded in the Iran war say the Pentagon minimized the severity of their injuries, despite suffering shrapnel wounds, traumatic brain injuries, hearing and vision loss, and requiring months of recovery. As noted in the report, in March, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that “almost 90%” of the roughly 400 American service members wounded during the conflict with Iran suffered only minor injuries and had already returned to duty. Two of those soldiers and their families are now disputing that characterization, telling CBS News their injuries were far more severe than the military’s public descriptions suggested. Among them is Chief Warrant Officer Rodney Bearman, who was wounded on March 1 when an Iranian drone struck his workstation at Port of Shuaiba in Kuwait. According to CBS News, medical records show Bearman suffered shrapnel wounds, a concussion, hearing and vision loss, and lung damage. Despite those injuries, the Army classified him as “not seriously injured.” “That assessment is unacceptable,” his wife, Amy Bearman, told the outlet. Another survivor of the same attack, Sergeant First Class Cory Hicks, told CBS News that Army officials similarly minimized his condition after he suffered extensive shrapnel wounds requiring multiple emergency surgeries. “They said your husband was injured, he has a minor jaw injury, and he’s going to be returned to duty,” Hicks said his wife was told. Asked whether he believed military leaders attempted to soften the reality of the attack, Hicks responded, “Absolutely.” The Army rejected those allegations in a statement to CBS News. “The care and well-being of our Soldiers is of the highest priority,” an Army spokesperson said. “Any assertion that the Army seeks to downplay a soldier’s injuries is simply not true.” CBS noted that Hicks remains at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center nearly four months after the attack, where he is recovering from what he described as a “pretty severe” traumatic brain injury. Bearman, meanwhile, was later assigned to a soldier recovery unit closer to his family, where he continues to receive treatment.The post American Soldiers Claim Pete Hegseth Downplayed Severity of Iran War Wounds first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago - Maggie Haberman Says Trump Appears To Have Checked Out: ‘He’s Not Behaving L...New York Times reporter and CNN commentator Maggie Haberman said President Donald Trump does not seem to care if Republicans retain control of Congress. Haberman and her Times colleague Jonathan Swan joined Wednesday’s edition of The Source on CNN, where they discussed their new book, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. Host Kaitlan Collins pointed to one passage in the book in which the authors wrote, “To the extent that he still cared about polling at all, he is seeing far fewer polls than during his first term. His advisors knew he was not receptive to being briefed on harsh realities in his second term, unlike his first, he was willing to take breathtaking risks, risks that could throw not only his presidency but the Republican Party and the entire world into chaos and carnage. More than ever before as president, he was operating on pure gut instinct.” Collins asked Haberman, “Do you think that’s what he’s doing now. And do you think it matters if that gut instinct hurts Republicans who are on the ballot? “Yes, I do think that what we are seeing right now is very in line,” Haberman replied. “On the one hand, yes, it’s similar to what we saw in term one, just in terms of sort of a sense for his party and some of his own staff of being erratic, but is definitely consistent with trusting his gut more than ever.” Haberman went on to refer to a bipartisan housing bill Trump is refusing. On Wednesday, the president canceled a signing ceremony for the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which aims to lower housing costs and increase the supply of homes. The president said his signing the legislation is contingent on the Senate passing the SAVE Act, a voter registration law. She said: We got our hands on some polling memos, some confidential polling memos inside the Trump team. And one was from December when his own pollster circulated a memo. And it was after Trump had done an affordability speech or what was supposed to be an affordability speech, where instead he called affordability a “con job” and started suggesting, again, Democrats were responsible for coming up with this term and that this was not fair to him, that it used the term, and I’m paraphrasing here, but it was that the White House and the… [TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago
- Life Celebration for Peabo Bryson (pics and videow)
Family, friends, fellow artists, civic leaders and admirers gathered in Atlanta to celebrate Mr. Bryson’s extraordinary life, enduring legacy and the immeasurable impact his music has had on generations around the world. The service featured moving musical tributes from Grammy Award-winning singer Regina Belle, Grammy Award-winning gospel artist BeBe Winans, [TheTopNews] Read More.9 hours ago - Sean Duffy Says Career-Focused Young People Are Following ‘Dumbest Advice That...During a Wednesday rally in Washington, D.C., to kick off President Donald Trump’s ‘Great American State Fair,’ Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that education and career-focused young people are following the “dumbest advice that they could ever get.” The ‘Great American State Fair’ will run for 16 days on the National Mall in D.C., meant to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary. Wednesday’s rally will also feature an appearance from the president. Speaking to the crowd, Duffy said, “Modern culture has told our young people that they shouldn’t look for love. They shouldn’t have a family, they shouldn’t have kids. Instead, focus on their education, focus on their careers, focus on their bank accounts.” He continued: Have a free Saturday morning and go get a Venti latte with your friends at Starbucks. That will give them joy, is what culture has told them. This is the dumbest advice that they could ever get! What fills the human heart, what gives us purpose, we should look for love. Get married and have lots of kids. Right? It’s a lot of fun. Right? Best decision I made, I met Rachel [Campos-Duffy] on a reality TV show, like, 29 years ago. We’ve been married for 27 years. We’re good Catholics. We’re open to life. We have nine kids. Couldn’t have made a better decision in my life. Well, actually, she said yes to me, so she made a great decision for me in our life, which I’m very grateful for. But, the strength of our country is rooted in the strength of our families. So, to celebrate America 250, we should celebrate our American family. Also in his speech, Duffy celebrated the performances from “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band, the U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own,” and Armed Forces choirs, calling them “way better than those libtards that canceled on us.” Watch the full clip above via C-SPAN.The post Sean Duffy Says Career-Focused Young People Are Following ‘Dumbest Advice That They Could Ever Get’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.9 hours ago
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