The FCC won’t enforce a Puerto Rico court order that A...
The FCC won’t enforce a Puerto Rico court order that A Radio Co.’s WEGA(AM) Vega Baja be attached and delivered to a “bailee,” the Media Bureau wrote Monday (http://xrl.us/bnab3t). The agency’s “long-standing policy is to accommodate the actions of state…
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courts, thereby avoiding conflicts between state and federal authority,” but a broadcast license can’t be attached as an asset, wrote Audio Division Chief Peter Doyle of the Media Bureau. “A proposed transaction that, as here, involves a ’substantial change in ownership or control’ must be filed on either an FCC Form 314 or 315,” he wrote in denying the request to assign WEGA from A Radio to Carmelo Santiago Roman. “The Court’s attachment of the Station’s license exceeded its authority."