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NAB’s proposal to relax instead of end the audio filtering requirement for Travelers’ Information Stations seems like a good solution, said a broadcast attorney. With the solution, the poor audio quality on TIS gets better, “but it doesn’t substantially increase…

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the risk of interference,” said Fletcher Heald attorney Jon Markman in a blog post (http://bit.ly/1mklHFs). After proposing to eliminate the filtering requirement, the FCC opened a comment period on NAB’s proposal last week (CD April 17 p14). By doing so, the commission is giving the public another opportunity to comment on the possible new direction proposed by NAB and the Society of Broadcast Engineers, he said. The FCC has given the users and operators of the TIS a chance to weigh in on this new 5 kHz proposal, he said.