Translator Rhetoric Escalating; WINS Plans for Pope
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Top Stories - 09.23.15
Copps, McDowell Back Translator Option for AMs Two former commissioners, one from each party, spoke up today about this issue. Meanwhile, NAB attorneys met last week with FCC staff and said any notion that translators constitute "free spectrum" for AMs is misguided.
WINS Plans Pope Coverage Ivan Lee of New York's WINS(AM) lays out the station's plans to cover the pope on his visit to the city.
Stations Ponder a "Prairie" Without Keillor (Current) Expected to step down in 2016 and with solid succession plans being laid out, stations are still unsure what "A Prairie Home Companion" without Garrison Keillor will be like.
Station Receives National Recognition (Warren Record) WARR(AM), Warrenton, N.C., gets local press after being named a finalist for the National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation 2015 Celebration of Service to America Awards.
Yogi Berra Passes Away at 90 (MLB.com) Though not a broadcaster, the legendary baseball player has been an endless source of quotable material for broadcasters for at least seven decades and will remain so forever.