The FCC upheld two Media Bureau decisions dismissing...
The FCC upheld two Media Bureau decisions dismissing applications for review for AM broadcast stations. The commission denied Jet Fuel Broadcasting a waiver of a deadline to submit a showing for a new AM radio station, it said in a…
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memorandum opinion and order (http://bit.ly/Zrep4H). The commission also dismissed JFB’s tech box application for the new station at Cutten, Calif., filed during the Auction 84 filing window, it said. The commission concluded that JFB “has failed to demonstrate that the bureau erred,” it said. To the extent JFB contends that the bureau’s action was “untimely,” JFB “fails to articulate any specific prejudice it has suffered as a result of any delay in the bureau’s action,” it said. Fireside Media urged the commission to review the dispositive preference given to Colleen McKinney’s mutually exclusive application for a station at Braham, Minn., it said in a separate memorandum opinion and order (http://bit.ly/12Vnuqd). Fireside’s argument criticizing the bureau’s failure to consider McKinney’s challenge to its financial qualifications is without merit, the FCC said. “Even if we were to consider Fireside’s arguments on the merits, we find them to be unpersuasive as an alternative and independent basis for our decision."