IBA News

July brings a number of new regulatory dates for broadcasters – including the effective dates of two new compliance obligations for small market TV stations, as well as numerous routine regulatory filing dates.  July 10 brings one deadline for all broadcast stations – it is the date by which your Quarterly Issues Programs lists, setting out the most important issues that faced your community in the last quarter and t

Iowa’s own Mary Quass selected by Radio Ink as one of the “Most Influential Women in Radio.” Radio Ink article —  http://images.radcity.net/5173/5163851.pdf

  WASHINGTON, DC — In response to today’s Supreme Court 6-3 decision finding that Aereo violates broadcasters’ copyrights, the following statement can be attributed to NAB President and CEO Gordon Smith: “NAB is pleased the Supreme Court has upheld the concept of copyright protection that is enshrined in the Constitution by standing with free and local television. Aereo characterized our lawsu

A free webinar for radio broadcasters will be presented Wednesday, July 16, 2014,1:00-2:30pm Central Time Purpose: Now is the time to think about radio’s place in tomorrow’s interactive dashboard. We invite all broadcasters to join us as we share the future of radio in the car and how NextRadio and TagStation provides an interactive content solution that preserves the future of broadcast radio in the car dashboard. I

Yesterday, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (VT) and Ranking Member Charles Grassley (IA) introduced a “clean” bill to reauthorize the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA). The bill extends STELA for another five years and includes some technical fixes, but is free of controversial and unrelated provisions that could harm broadcasters. This was such great news! IBA has been working closely w

There’s still time to nominate those individuals deserving of the Broadcaster of the Year award and Hall of Fame for 2014.  The nominations deadline has been extended to June 5 … so don’t delay! The Iowa Broadcaster of the Year award is a peer recognition- awarded to a fellow General Manager, President or Station Owner who has provided exceptional leadership and service to their station(s), staff an

Congratulations to Tanner Heinrichs of Marshalltown and Jason Vizzini of Cedar Rapids, both students have been selected as recipients of this year’s IBA UNI Electronic Media Scholarships, awarded through the Iowa Broadcasters Association Foundation. Each student will receive a $4,000 renewable scholarship from the IBA Foundation beginning this fall, to continue their Electronic Media studies at the University of Nort

By David Oxenford On June 6, FCC application fees are going up by 8%.  The new fees were published in the Federal Register.  This Federal Register publication sets out all of the new fees.  To make sure that your applications are processed on a timely basis, be sure to pay the proper higher fees, starting on June 6. The old fees have been in place since 2009, so remember to adjust to the new fees.  The fees for the m

The May IBA RAB training webinar is being held May 22 at 10:00am CDT. The webinar is FREE and available to IBA Members only.  Detailed information is available for all IBA Members.