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What do you mean they don’t monitor for silence? https://www.broadcastlawblog.com/2022/07/articles/fcc-cracking-down-on-long-periods-of-station-silence-short-t

• akira2501 3y ago
  You should read the linked decisions in the article. The FCC learned about the dead air because the stations themselves filed Special Temporary Authority paperwork with the FCC specifying that the station carrier was not active during that time. So, it was not active monitoring, but passive paperwork review, triggered by the license application itself, that caused the ruling. The FCC does not actively monitor stations in any way.
• quesera 3y ago
  That article does not talk about the FCC monitoring ordinary licensees for "silence" (which I assume means off-air i.e. transmitter turned off, and not dead-air i.e. broadcast of silent audio). (Dead air is actually a bigger sin than off-air. Off-air happens. Dead air should almost never happen.) The article talks about monitoring stations who have a history of poor usage of their license. And it's not clear that "monitor" here would mean any active steps, vs just requiring the usual mandatory reporting of unscheduled, unpermitted, extended off-air events. But the FCC does not routinely monitor for dead air or any other violations. They do respond to complaints of all kinds. In competitive markets, licensees monitor each other.