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Control Room Workbook Table of Contents by section/tab
1. Introduction. Table of contents, user and management instructions, related updates. 2. Announcements/Calendar. Important station announcements, calendar of important dates for reporting and filing information. Usable also for station policy and practices guidelines. 3. Antenna and tower. Technical info, locations, procedures, FAA info, lighting/marking. What to do about lighting problems. 4. Emergency alert System (EAS). General tutorial, equipment location, instruction summary, updates as published. CRUCIAL! 5. Equipment Performance Measurement (EPM). Annual measurement requirement for AM stations, new transmitting system measurement requirement for FM and TV. 6. FCC Information, General. Compliance warnings for operators. Article: How to handle an FCC inspection, self-inspection checklist information, updates, legal station ID requirements. 7. Licenses and postings. Station and Auxiliary licenses, Chief Operator Designation letter, Public file summary and location requirements regarding postings. 8. Logs, operating. Includes station transmitter readings, inspections, EAS tests, tower light log. May also include repair and modification record as needed. Formattable forms on the CD-ROM for your individual station requirements if desired. 9. Power and pattern adjustments AM stations: Includes nighttime power changes or antenna pattern adjustments provided by station engineer. Should also include presunrise, postsunset or critical hours readings as required. Current directional data. 10. Wind River’s Preventive Maintenance Manual. You may add station-specific maintenance data as needed. 11. Remote Control. Brief instructions for operations—signon/signoff if used, power adjustment, fault correction, transmitter reading steps, etc. as provided by engineer. 12. Transmitter Data—AM, FM, TV. Brief technical info, operating parameters, nominal meter readings, efficiency or power tables for indirect conversion as needed. Data for your equipment to be added here as desired. 13. Trouble info and telephone list. Failure reporting, emergency assistance numbers, FAA local number, simplified emergency steps as needed. Some items are station-specific and will be provided by engineer. 14. Forms and Copy masters. Logs, Chief operator forms, tech consultant or engineer forms, EAS/Tower light logs, discrepancy report, and station-specific as needed. 15. User-Defined file. May cover LMAs, On-air policy manual, station specific issues. Do not add an excessive number of subjects. |
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What’s in the Broadcaster’s BIGBOOK—the tables of contents of both volumes. Under each tab we have one or more instructional sheets, blank forms for licensee or local engineer use, articles, checklists or directories as shown on the contents. Add your own station-specific information such as licenses, chief operator letter, logs, transmitter standards, to complete THE BOOK for your station’s operation. If an FCC agent visits, just hand over the book. He or she will know what to do from there. If you keep it current per the instructions and keep the station’s operation in line with your licenses, the FCC should be happy. Need more space? Put the tabs and contents in order into a file drawer...or additional binders! |
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Public File Workbook Table of Contents by section/tab
1. Introduction. Table of contents, user and management instructions, related updates. 2. FCC rules governing public file. Current rules—§73.3526, commercial and §73.3527, noncommercial educational. 3. Applications and exhibits requiring Local Public Notice. Includes FCC 301, 340CPs FCC 3145, 3215 Transfers. Main license, renewals, other application requiring notice—application will so state on its face. 4. Applications and exhibits not requiring Local Public Notice. Includes auxiliary transmitters (STL, RPU, TSL), application extensions, STAs, FCC 316 transfers. 5. Ownership reports and license renewal filing calendar. FCC forms 323, 323-E, “statement of no change,” etc. 6. Political Broadcast Records. Includes time requests by qualified candidates Use form in Section 13 below for convenience. 7. Annual Employment Reports. FCC 395-B and supporting data. FCC 396, 396A and 397 as needed. Be absolutely certain to include updated memoranda of change in this section as these are social policy requirements subject to constant change. 8. THE PUBLIC AND BROADCASTING. This is an FCC publication dated June 1999. Although not fully current, this document is required in the Public File. 9. Letters received from the public. For commercial stations only. Includes guidelines for retention and when to discard. 10. Issues and Programs Lists. A crucial file, this must be updated quarterly. See guidelines in this section and sample forms for direction. Form provided in Section 13, below, will assist in preparation of this record. 11. Lists of Donors supporting specific programs. For noncommercial stations only. Instructions in the section; station adds listings. 12. Certification of Local Public Notice. Use the form in Section 13 below for convenience. This is a required record of on-air announcement cycles required by certain applications. 13. Forms and Copy Masters for management of the Public File. For your convenience, forms 1 through 7 are included; others may be station-designed as needed. 14. LMA and time brokerage agreements. List and office location of agreements may be most efficient for this section. 15. User-Defined file. May include children’s programming information (TV only) as desired. |
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CD-ROM Contents: Archives of Executive Update Newsletters, Searchable Current FCC Self-Inspection booklets, FCC EAS Booklet, FCC tutorials on enhanced underwriting, Obscenity and Indecency policy, Searchable HTML Public and Broadcasting publication, Welcoming and instructional materials for The Broadcaster’s BIGBOOK Project. Continually updated with e-mailed files and newsletters. |
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