[BC] Public File

[John Buffaloe]

Tom I think my point is made by your experience.  I did a self inspection a
few years ago and found out what a mess the PIF was for our stations.  It
was being handled by the GM's assistant, and she would stick everything in
there, in no particular order, and was missing several things for each
station.  She didn't want to do it and it was apparent.  I decided to take
it on so it would be right.  It seems the local FCC liked to inspect my
stations every few years and I didn't want any gig, period.  I understand
they had an inspection shortly after I left and came up clean.

John A. Buffaloe
Bext Inc
888-239-8462 Toll Free
619-685-3919 Direct
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[mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Tom Bosscher
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 10:40 AM
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Subject: Re: [BC] Public File

	John, then it looks like the corporate culture of that 
operation is different from most that I have observed in my 
30+ years. I have never run into a station yet, where the GM 
believes the engineer or chief operator should be in charge 
of the PI file. It just is not the norm. And in way too many 
cases, it ends up in never never land.

	In my case, I started to clean it up, paused and said "Tom, 
this is more responsibility, and you should be compensated". 
My GM's and the VP of broadcasting could not agree fast 
enough. So I now have the big bull eyes on my back. But 
there is enough information out on the Net for anyone to 
make a clean file. As stated, Ken does a great job, and he 
stated xactly how to do it in Barry's Radio Guide, where you 
can buy the back issues CD.

	I take care of the Zeeland, Michigan Moody station on the 
side, and I put my interpretation of what the PI file should 
be in there. Moody asked me permission to use it as a 
corporate standard. One of their stations got inspected and 
the FCC even stated that they never saw a PI file that had 
the items in the same sequence as their check off list. 
Which is amazing, because it is not hard to do right. Just 
details.

 >"Don't worry...
 >The FCC is about to eliminate the public file requirement.
 >Just watch...."

	I'm worried about that one. Yes, they'll take away item 
"A", and institute items "B and C".


Tom Bosscher


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