The FCC request for long-form applications for 1,239...
The FCC request for long-form applications for 1,239 FM translators (CD Aug 1 p17) that were first sought in 2003 has some catches, said radio lawyers in blog posts Wednesday after a Media Bureau public notice that day. “The filing…
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opportunity is not without its gotchas,” wrote Harry Cole of Fletcher Heald on the law firm’s blog (http://bit.ly/14lYuO9). Applicants can’t propose new facilities that would be considered a major change, he said. The public notice “makes clear” that low-power FM applications (see separate report in this issue) filed in a window to seek LPFM stations “will have precedence over any application that is amended in this window (or any other translator minor change for existing stations that was filed after the LPFM window was announced),” wrote Wilkinson Barker’s David Oxenford (http://bit.ly/13z3mJJ). “It is hard to believe that applicants who were pending for over 10 years may have even very minor changes precluded by applications that are not yet filed, but that seems to be the decision of the Commission."