FCC members denied Matinee Radio’s request for the full commission...
FCC members denied Matinee Radio’s request for the full commission to undo a 2005 Media Bureau decision that cut the broadcaster’s 35 percent new entrant bidding credit (NEBC) for five FM stations in an auction of FM construction permits the…
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year before (http://fcc.us/YkZgB3). The bureau said the “acquisition of an attributable interest in a radio station by two of Matinee’s attributable interest holders reduced its NEBC eligibility,” even though that stake was obtained after the broadcaster filed Form 175 for the auction, No. 37, the new order said. That staff decision “properly decided the matters raised, and we uphold its decision for the reasons stated therein,” said the order released in Tuesday’s Daily Digest (http://bit.ly/VG89e4).