A temporary outage in the FCC's Licensing and Management System reportedly caused a breach making more than 100 confidential applications for noncommercial FM translators publicly visible. According to a report on the Radio World website, the system was restored on Thursday, November 5th, just hours after the disruption on the same day.
The timing of the outage was critical, in another way; noncommercial and community radio stations and the broadcast consultants assisting them have been preparing applications in order to meet the tight filing deadline of November 17th. Citing the outage, high demand among applicants, and a short filing window, the consulting groups have petitioned the FCC to extend the filing window for at least another week, perhaps as late as November 25th.
