An FM translator owner reported “concerns over any proposed limits on the...
An FM translator owner reported “concerns over any proposed limits on the numbers of applications remaining from the 2003 FM translator window that can be processed” once the FCC determines priorities between the availability of those stations and low-power FM…
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outlets. Educational Media Foundation executives shared those concerns at the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville with Audio Division Chief Peter Doyle of the Media Bureau, which drafted an order on the filing window that the commission has tentatively set for a March 21 vote (CD March 1 p9). “Any cap on application processing will harm rural residents, as applications that are pending for rural areas are more likely to be dismissed so that those applications serving greater populations can be prosecuted,” EMF said. “A cap which applies only in LPFM spectrum-limited markets, where LPFM availability is more likely to be impacted, which is imposed on the number of grants in those markets as opposed to a cap on applications, is preferred, though EMF is opposed to all caps that do not allow a substantial number of the remaining applications from the 2003 window to be processed.” EMF’s filing posted Wednesday in docket 99-25 (http://xrl.us/bmwmbo) was five days late because the ex parte meeting was “at a remote location” and EMF’s representatives at the meeting had been traveling, it said.