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Greetings from your broadcast friends out on the Desert…
This is BDR Newsletter 848, Volume 17, #15 for November 12, 2025

THE FCC REOPENING IS CLOSE
The news reports are predicting the government shutdown will finally be ending, with the House to vote later today.

The key takeaway for broadcasters? All filings that were scheduled for the past two weeks will be due – as soon as Friday. However, there is a good chance that the FCC will, recognizing the logjam and potential server crashes, extend filing deadlines for a few days.  That is not guaranteed, so keep alert. We will post any changes on the BDR and the BROADCAST email list. At the same time, some have advised including a note in any filing that it was ready on time and delayed by the government shutdown.
could be well after 9AM at certain times.

RESISTING THE SPAM FLOOD
Whether you are using email or social media, spam is a scourge. Solutions range from really sharp filters to RBLs (realtime blackhole lists) to deleting everything while singing the Monty Python Spam Song. A sort of common sense middle group is in the article that Mike Langner shares with us.

PROCESSING YOUR AUDIO
How much processing do you need? This is a question that every station needs to consider. Audio processors can cost well north of $15k or as little as several thousand. Here is the key question: “What features do you need?” Secondarily, “How much customization of the sound do you want to do?” Catfish Dosch from Angry Audio is our guest this week to discuss the criteria every station should consider for on-air and streaming processing.

Join us and learn something. As always, we gather at 2 PM Eastern time on Thursday (11 AM PST). As always, the link request is found at www.theBDR.net/TLG/

We hope to see you on Thursday.

NOTE:  ARIZONA PRESENTATION TIME IS NOW NOON.

As usual, we meet at 2 PM Eastern (11 AM Pacific) on Thursday. Link requests are easily found at www.theBDR.net/TLG/ Our videos are also shown on the youtube.com/thebdrnet channel.