Skywaves provides strategic consulting on technical matters for radio
station executives, owners, potential owners, and brokers.
Skywaves specializes
in facility upgrades for FM stations, along with creating new FM Stations
via Non-Commercial / Educational (NC/E or NCE) filing windows, and FM Auctions.
Skywaves offers decades of expertise in the Canadian and Mexican border areas in
addition to extensive knowledge and experience in the core US areas. In the border
regions, different rules apply, and specialized knowledge and experience are
required to maximize your signal.
New FCC rule changes have given stations additional
flexibility to improve their situations. Only an experienced consulting firm
like Skywaves can provide your station with the maximum benefit from those
changes.
New non-broadcast
technologies, such as Internet Telephony and Podcasting, can have serious
impact - for good or bad - on the operation and financial situation of a
broadcasting business. Skywaves provides insight and analysis on new
technologies as they effect broadcasters. Our free executive newsletters and
three-minute podcasts provide high-level insight, and our consulting services
can evaluate the impact on your business.
New broadcast technologies can impact stations even more critically.
Currently important issues include new interference modes to analog FM stations
from digital FM stations, potential new interference from translators and LPFM
stations, and potential competition from new Internet broadcast technologies
like Wi-Max. Again, our newsletters provide busy broadcasting
executives with quick insight into these issues, and our consulting services can
provide you with specific evaluations for your business.
Skywaves' principal consultant, Dave Doherty, is a former owner of
five radio stations. He has been a leader in technological innovations in
broadcasting and aviation technologies. Dave has worked on uncounted FM
allocation situations since 1971, and he has provided many upgrades for stations
in "hopeless" situations. Dave's bio is online here.
Thank you for taking the time to visit with us. We look forward to
working with you.
