As per our joint settlement agreement with Wren Communications, FCYB’s application for a new station in Red Feather Lakes, Colorado has been DISMISSED. The application number is BNPED-20071019ART. If you have any questions, please contact Jake Wood at jwood@fcyb.org or 970-797-1491.
I’m excited to say that someone willing to pick music and coordinate shows as coming forward. Her name: Laura Pfiester! If you have any concerns about the programming or music on the station, you will no longer need to e-mail me, instead please e-mail her at laurap, followed by the at sign (@), which is further followed by our domain name (fcyb.org).  Let’s see a computer tackle that one for spam.
I have also created a Programming category which Laura will be able to post to the blog on to keep the world updated on the programming and whatnot. I figured it’s a fairly big part of running the station, so it deserves its own category.
On a sidenote, I’m considering consolidating some of the categories even further so we don’t have so many. In fact I’ll probably do that right now 🙂
Adios, until next time!
-Jake
Since the check didn’t clear fast enough, the owners of 101.5 wanted nothing to do with it. So, we’ll probably send it back to Vic until the settlement agreement goes through at the FCC.
In the meantime, we’ll be continuing our Internet stream, and soon we hope to start podcasts and at least recorded shows until we can get studio space setup.
In the future, they did say they might work with us. However, it’d be ultimately cheaper to file for a new LPFM station, wait for the construction permit, and build it. It’d cost about 3 months of lease to build the station. Three months is not very long, and not very much, either. So hopefully the FCC will open a new window soon!
We deposited our check from Vic yesterday, only to find $1,000 to be withheld by the union until it clears. So, with this in mind, we contacted the people at 101.5 and hope they understand our situation. Still waiting to hear back. This is one of the two determining factors, the other being Jake’s report on legality and value of license, which once completed will be released here.
…is that Vic might be able to help us get the deposit. He said he’ll e-mail right after the 25th (Christmas Day). So hopefully, hopefully, he’ll be able to donate the deposit to us. We’ll either pay him back or let him consider it a donation. That’s his decision, though.
-Jake
Something we were doing in the old blog were “personal posts,” or posts from individuals in FCYB saying what they were up to and stuff. I’m thinking we’re going to continue doing that, it was interesting to see a blog post suddenly appear from someone other than me 🙂
Also, something I realized. I was tweaking the categories of this blog, cleaning them up and renaming them to fit better. As I was doing this I realized that there is so much going into this project. Finances, FM Radio (which in itself has a gazillion and one things), Legal stuff, meetings, public relations, and technology are our categories right now. And this is just the beginning. Pretty soon there might be a Programming category…or a Scheduling category…or something…I’m not really sure. It’s exciting to see though!
-Jake
How do you like it? We changed the theme of our web site to something a little “spiffier,” if I may say so myself. It took Don and I a few minutes to figure everything out with the new theme and making it behave as before, but hey, I think it’s worth it.
So we here at FCYB have been asking ourselves: is FM radio really worth it? Dodging bullets and trying to pull strings, is it all really worth it?
To start, the signal we’d be getting isn’t a great one. I’m not sure how well the signal works past Harmony, but I remember listening from a church that’s just a hair south of Harmony and I was hearing Martini on the Rockies, not KKNZ. Secondly, is this deal even legal? “Leasing time” on an LPFM station 24/7 sounds an awful lot like an LMA…and I’m sure it would seem the same way to the FCC as well. And last, but certainly not least, it’s expensive. On $3,500, we could run the station for a solid 8 months over the Internet (oh, that’s with studio space). Sure, we lose casual listeners, but we’d gain loyal listeners, and in the end, loyal listeners are the ones that support the station.
So it’s an interesting toss-up between the two. $3,500 is hopefully what we’re getting for our settlement money from Wren Communications. That pays for nearly a whole year of rent (11 months and 20 days) by itself. And it pays for all kinds of stuff….meh the possibilities are incredible with $3500 and Internet radio.
I suppose we’ll know in the next few days what happens.
Wow, a lot’s been happening. I need to keep this thing updated more 🙂
To start, our group on Facebook has exploded. We get about 20 more people added into it every day, and people are inviting their friends. Right now there are about 120 pending invitations.
We got a contract from Wray Fitch in Washington, DC for the release of our application for the Red Feather Lakes station. We then get our nice, big, fat check from Wren Communications, only to then turn around and give it all to Fireside on January 15.
Also, there’s a potential for arranging studio space in the basement of one of our member’s homes. More details on that soon.
Other than that, we’ll probably have one last face-to-face quick meeting before Xmas break starts (probably on that Friday), and it’ll be happy holidays till the new year!
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