REC system notices related to the 10/1/2025 lapse in appropriations (government shutdown)

Information bulletins posted by REC on the morning of October 1, 2025 in response to the announced government shutdown.

As a part of our orderly transition of our products and services in light of the recent lapse in appropriations (government shutdown), REC Networks has issued several bulletins on Facebook and on the REC Networks Government Shutdown Page.

We are providing those notices here in an effort to reach our email subscribers.

10/01/2025 5:45 AM ET - In preparation for Commission wind-down procedures, REC Networks has discontinued routine eLMS services including daily updates and LMSLIST periodic updating throughout the day. This means that we will not receive updates from LMS that power the near real-time operations of FCC.today as well as FM engineering and US FCC administrative broadcast application information in FCCdata.org. Existing data will be frozen in place.

We have also suspended daily updates from ULS (for amateur radio, broadcast auxiliary, etc.)

All connections with the Contours API will remain in place. REC services that use the API already have surveillance that will check the availability of the API and applications will display a message if the surveillance is not detecting the presence of the API. If the Contours API stops operating, this will impact some mapping on FCCdata including FM advanced coverage maps, contour maps for TV facilities and contour maps for facilities in Canada, Mexico, UK, Ireland and Australia. It would also affect the ability to use certain linked functionality, such as verification of HAAT. Some maps, including primary contour mapping for US FM broadcast facilities is cached by the eLMS system and should remain available. Corrections to FM contour maps and FM facility records cannot be made during the shutdown period.

FCCdata.org will remain available during the shutdown with all cached information for US records. FCCdata will continue to receive periodic updates from Industry Canada and ACMA (Australia). Links to authorizations and exhibits will not work.

FCC.today will be unavailable during the shutdown as the tool is used primarily to provide near real time information.

REC live services will continue through the shutdown even though there will be no ability to file applications, interact with FCC staff, view applications and will have limited ability to construct exhibits. For October 1, 2025 specifically, REC is in minimal operations due to family priority that was scheduled before the shutdown.

While not yet officially announced by the agency, we can pretty much safely speculate that filing deadlines for various proceedings and processes, including the October 3 ETRS Form One filing deadline have been directly impacted. All shutdown days will be considered “holidays’ for the purpose of the rules and are considered non-work days. Customarily, once the shutdown ends, the Commission will release information on the orderly re-establishment of filing deadlines.

For ETRS, we will have the ability to build FRN relationships in CORES (as the agency announced CORES will remain operational), but we do not expect to have the ability to access ETRS to prepare Form Ones until after the shutdown. All stations that have requested ETRS services from REC that are still in progress and have not already been filed, we will keep your information and may continue the FRN password verification processes (know that there will be no help desk at the FCC if something needs to be reset). No new invoices will go out at this time.

During times like this, REC always appreciates direct donations to help keep the lights on and food on the table. Please visit recnet.com and click on the Donate link. Thank you for your support.

Please see the REC Networks Government Shutdown page (recnet.com/shutdown) for more information regarding REC operations as well as FCC policies during a government shutdown.

If you have any questions, please email REC at lpfm@recnet.com or call 202 621-2355. Our thoughts are going out to partners in FCC staff as they will be facing some tough times due to the furlough. For many of us, this is not our first rodeo. All the best from Riverton!

10/01/2025 6:20 AM - FCC systems remain up at this time, we are manually doing our normal LMS morning update routine earlier than its normally scheduled time (7:00AM ET/4:00 AM RECOT <REC Operations Time>) to get the absolute latest information before the systems are locked down at the FCC.

10/01/2025 6:45 AM - For those who need the full LMS dump file that is provided daily by the FCC for their own systems/software and for those who need the weekly ULS licensing databases for many of the services within the purview of REC, we now have local copies of those available through the REC Shutdown page (recnet.com/shutdown).

10/01/2025 7:10 AM - Just a reminder that during a shutdown, many services on REC’s myLPFM station management tool may be unavailable. These include, but may not be limited to: links to broadcast applications, LPFM IBOC Digital ERP Study, the ability to check for reduced interference on an alternate channel for a modification, power check based on actual HAAT, encroachment report, translator interference package preparation and move map.

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Please stay tuned to REC’s Facebook Page as the first source for breaking information.