eLMS is a product of REC Networks in an effort to improve on the raw data product currently offered by the Federal Communications Commission for broadcast applications filed in the FCC’s License Management System (LMS). eLMS parses the information directly from the filed applications and then places it into a database that can be used throughout the REC system universe.
eLMS Enhancements – First weekend project.
REC is working on a major project to address the shortcomings of the raw data that is provided by the FCC since FM radio converted to the LMS system on September 25, 2019.
Rebuilt system to obtain listener counts. Information on Twitter playlists now display correct counts.
Built new interface to Disogs to get cover art for Delmarva FM (REC-FM). The system will cache cover art. Any cover art that we do not have, the system will attempt to retrieve the cover art from DIscogs.
We will eventually build a similar ability for J1.
This cover art only covers what is viewed on the recnet.com home page and on the J1/Delmarva FM popup "J-Player". The mobile app, TuneIn and Roku get their cover art from their own system sources.
If no cover art is available, the Delmarva-FM logo will be displayed.
A new widget appears on the left sidebar of the recnet.com website which displays any non-operational conditions that are currently reported on the REC Operational Status Page (recnet.com/motd).
New functionality has been added for when scheduled database updates take place, the Operational Status Page and Status Widget will get automatically updated with an orange "Updating" status. The Status Page will give details of which databases are being updated.
REC placed a couple of emergency fixes into various systems this morning to deal with the ongoing bad information coming from the FCC on LPFM records.
Modified back office systems and FCCdata to regard a station in which the app_antenna.aant_antenna_type_code from LMS is blank. Normally, this is the field in LMS that designates an antenna to be directional or nondirectional. Systems will treat blank entries as nondirectional facilities.
Did a complete rebuild of the system used to obtain travel reports for JR East Japan Railway.
We have returned JR EAST to on-air, website, Twitter and the mobile app.
There may be some additional table building necessary to determine any new English language nomenclature used by the railway.
Installed some modifications and added monitoring to support the site changes at JR East in order to obtain train delay information for the Kanto region. Modifying the code on an ongoing basis to handle the new delay status messages from JR East. Any JR East delays that the system is able to decode will be displayed. All issues will be logged.
Until the new JR East interface is stable, we have curtailed all tweets from the JR East interface to the @j1_travel Twitter account.
We will be working on numerous bugs reported on myLPFM 2.0. This includes reports of missing contour maps, nonfunctional census information and false positives in results.
ETU: Sunday 9PM ET.
6/21/2020 1443 EDT
Determined and cleared the issue that was causing the false positive result. The Channel Search was not properly handling some LMS applications.
Determined and cleared the issue that was causing the lack of contour maps.
J1 uses Twitter to obtain service status information for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority trains, Metrolink and some Japanese private railways. After a 6 day outage, we have redesigned the interface to Twitter using their most recent API and we have resumed travel information on J1 and the (new) J1 Mobile App.
Twitter updates will be retrieved once per minute, 24 hours a day.
Metro and Metrolink updates will take place once per minute, 24 hours a day.
Japan updates will take place on the following schedule:
A new "Daily Releases" section has been added to FCC.today. It will only be on the desktop version and will be located between Broadcast Applications and Broadcast Actions.
Daily Releases will track all of the new documents released by the FCC (from all Bureaus, not just Media) in order to provide a "first view" into newly released decisions and documents.
Clicking the news item will open a new browser tab and take you to that item at FCC.gov.
Releases made within the past 30 minutes will display with a yellow background.
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