The FCC Media Bureau reversed itself, rescinding an...
The FCC Media Bureau reversed itself, rescinding an FM-translator construction permit change to one company and sustaining another broadcaster’s objection. Saga Communications sought to undo the CP application granted to Lake Country Broadcasting to modify a translator in Branchport, N.Y.,…
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to change its community of license to Dundee and Penn Yan and relocate its transmitting antenna. “The CP Application is the latest in a series of translator ‘hops’ relocating Station W245BL’s facilities to various sites in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York,” said a letter Thursday to attorneys from bureau Audio Division Chief Peter Doyle (http://bit.ly/17qg7xd). Saga said the CP shouldn’t have been granted because the translator’s contour overlapped with the company’s WYXL(FM) Ithaca. “We agree with Saga that the ‘US Topo’ map, which was not before the staff at the time of grant, demonstrates that the CP Application violated the general contour overlap rule,” wrote Doyle. “Saga has shown material error in the grant."