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Longtime locals and businesses with older phone-based technology will need to retrain their fingers and possibly reprogram some systems by Oct. 24, when 10-digit dialing becomes mandatory for all phone systems in the 970 area…
Gordon Smith To Leave CEO Role At NAB He will move to an advisory and advocacy role beginning next year. The former senator has led the broadcasters' group for more than a decade. He's being succeeded by NAB's COO Curtis LeGeyt. By TVN Staff | April 7, 2021 | 5:28 a.m. ET. National Association of Broadcasters President and CEO Gordon H. Smith announced today his plans to transition to an advisory and advocacy role effective Dec. 31, 2021. The organization’s Chief Operating Officer Curtis LeGeyt has been named the next president and CEO of NAB effective Jan. 1, 2022. In a video message t...
Staff Writer LISBON — The number of 911 calls in Columbiana County remained average in 2020 but decreased in the usual busiest months in previous years. Brian Rutledge, the county Emergency Management Agency deputy director and 911 coordinator, said the number of 911 calls dropped in the months of July, August, November and December. Those same months saw the highest number of calls in both 2018 and 2019. Rutledge said during Thursday’s 911 Emergency Service Committee meeting he isn’t sure why there was a drop during those months but assumes it is due to the pandemic. In total, agenc...
QRZ Callsign Search FCC reduces proposed Amateur Radio Application Fee to $35 The FCC has agreed with ARRL and other commenters that its proposed $50 fee for certain amateur radio applications was "too high to account for the minimal staff involvement in these applications." In a Report and Order (R&O), released on December 29, the FCC scaled back to $35 the fee for a new license application, a special temporary authority (STA) request, a rule waiver request, a license renewal application, and a vanity call sign application. All fees are per application. There will be no fee for administrativ...
As 2020 comes to a thankful close, so does my 22 years of public service in this incredible crucible of democracy â the U.S. House. I thank my wife, Mylene, and son, Anthony, for always supporting me during my three decades of state and federal service. I will never fully understand all they sacrificed so I could fulfill my duty in office, but I know it was a lot. I also want to thank my terrific staff over the years, and especially those who helped me build and lead such successful organizations, including my personal office chiefs of staff Brian MacDonald and Lorissa Bounds; my executi...