Bond Broadcasting in Greenville, Ill., and East Kentucky Broadcasting, Pikeville,...
Bond Broadcasting in Greenville, Ill., and East Kentucky Broadcasting, Pikeville, Ky., requested a declaratory ruling that the current Auction 83 rules and procedures will not be changed without proceedings. A notice and comment proceeding is needed “to allow for heretofore…
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prohibited major changes to long-pending FCC Form 175 applications of non-commercial educational ... applicants that specify non-commercial educational status,” they said in a joint request in dockets 97-234 and 07-172 (http://bit.ly/YIYYeG). Many commercial broadcasters have been waiting more than 10 years since filing for Auction 83 FM translators for the enhanced service that their applications would allow, they said. A change now in the Auction 83 procedures would substantially harm commercial broadcasters who relied upon commission rules “to continue to prosecute Auction 83 FM translator applications in good faith reliance upon the published procedures.” Hundreds of Auction 83 commercial applicants “are now spending significant resources in the continued prosecution of their Auction 83 applications,” the broadcasters said.