Cumulus Opposes FCC Class A Interference Proposals
FCC proposals to relax interference protections for Class A AM stations wouldn’t serve the public interest, said Cumulus Media, posted Thursday in docket 13-249. The proposals would reduce the stations’ contours, it said. That “would substantially impair the ability of…
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the Federal Emergency Management Agency to implement the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System Modernization Act,” it said. IPAWS “falls entirely within the regulatory jurisdiction of another federal agency” and so shouldn’t be impeded by the FCC, Cumulus said. The reduced interference protection also would make it harder for Class A AM's to reach rural and tribal areas lacking broadband access, it said.