Des Moines Stations Start Broadcasting NextGen TV Signals

On election night, nobody with a national budget covers the county commission race. An LPTV station twelve miles away can, and that capability is the most durable franchise in American television.

Most LPTV transitions don’t fail on technology. They fail because nobody wrote down the order of operations. Here is the sequence: audit, budget, posture, paperwork, timeline.

The FCC’s new EAS security rules took effect September 29. Here’s what they require, the EAS dates still ahead this fall, and a short list a one-engineer station can work through at close to zero cost.