Could The Las Vegas Public Radio Interactive Public Radio Service (IPRS) on American Made Portsonic Radio Devices Show Up On Valley Billboards Soon?; Former Las Vegas Public Radio/PBS Affiliate And KIOF Staffers Enterain The Opportunity As The Internet Of Things (IoT) Model Is The Future As Terrestrial FM Operations Begin To Die Off And Run In The "Background"

Published Aug 30, 2025, at 12:17 AM

Could The Las Vegas Public Radio Interactive Public Radio Service (IPRS) on American Made Portsonic Radio Devices Show Up On Valley Billboards Soon?; Former Las Vegas Public Radio/PBS Affiliate And KIOF Staffers Enterain The Opportunity As The Internet Of Things (IoT) Model Is The Future As Terrestrial FM Operations Begin To Die Off And Run In The "Background"

LAS VEGAS (LVPR) - The country of Norway shut down national FM radio broadcasting between January and December 2017. Is the United States through Project 2025 going down the same path in conjunction with how the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced it is shutting down it's operations with 90% of it's staff exiting the 9th Street offices by September 30th? Could the United States follow the same pathway as Norway did by shutting down national FM radio broadcasting starting with non-commercial educational FM followed by traditional non-commercial FM between January and December 2026?

Could the Las Vegas Public Radio Interactive Public Radio Service (IPRS) on American made Portsonic Radio devices show up on valley billboards soon? It's the pathway and onramp for many of Nevada's non-commercial educational FM and non-commercial FM stations could take like the former Las Vegas Public Radio/PBS Affiliate and KIOF did between January 20, 2025 and June 5, 2025 by provisioning it's Las Vegas Public Radio brand onto the Internet of Things (IoT) model, Many other stations could be closing down in the coming weeks and months after President Trump signed the Rescissions Act of 2025 into law back on July 24, 2025. The Rescissions Act of 2025 opens the pathway now for the United States to also follow the same footprint to shutdown national FM radio broadcasting on the traditional FM dial between 88.1 MHz and 107.9 MHz in the coming years.

So what happens if the United States does follow Norway and other countries in shutting down national FM radio broadcasting?

The former Las Vegas Public Radio/PBS Affiliate And KIOF staffers have already answered that question here in 2025 with how spectrum re-purposing would be used where the traditional FM broadcasting band could be simply convert to fixed/mobile spectrum in the 88.1 MHz to 107.9 MHz band.

As a matter of fact, hints to this transition are already seen and happening. Take a look in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Online Table of Frequency Allocations at 47 C.F.R. 2.106 revised on March 31, 2025 seen here. On page 49 of 385 in the PDF, the bottom right side columns shows 88-108 BROADCASTING NG2 along with US9 and NG5 on the next page. Those 3 codes are very significant to the direction of traditional FM broadasting in the United States and it's possible transition to entirely fixed/mobile spectrum in the future.

Pay attention to each code. Most signficant begins with NG2. If you go to page 367 of 385 and look at (2) NG2, it states, "Facsimile broadcasting stations may be authorized in the band 88-108 MHz.". The US93 code on page 297 of 385 states, "VOR test facilities operating on 108 MHz will not be protected against interference caused by FM broadcasting stations operating in the band 88-108 MHz". And finally, the NG5 code on page 367 of 385 states, "In the band 88-108 MHz, FM broadcast licensees and permittees are permitted to use subcarriers on a secondary basis to transmit signals intended for both broadcast and non-broadcast purposes."

As you can see, the traditional FM band for 88.1 MHz to 108 MHz is no longer as traditional as you think as it's being repurposed to introduce other broadcast services that are not traditional audio FM broadcasting stations that you hear on your car radio. The traditional FM band is being slowly hacked up and provisioned for other services in the Internet of Things (IoT) model which could lead to the band actually being deprecated to fixed/mobile spectrum thus shutting down national FM radio broadcasting like Norway did between January and December 2017. And in 2026, you could just see the same thing in the United States.

Portsonic Communications stands ready for those legacy public broadcasting stations wishing to begin exploring the pathway and onramp like the Las Vegas Public Radio Interactive Public Radio Service (IPRS) is coming to the upcoming American made Portsonic Radio devices. You can contact the company and request a workspace to be added for the station in the Internet of Things (IoT) model. Could the Internet of Things (IoT) model be the pathway for a new public broadcasting model in the United States as the future of traditional terrestrial FM operations die off in 2026 and now to run in the "Background". Here at Portsonic Communications, we say yes.

Last Updated: August 30, 2025 12:26 AM PST