FCC Members Reject Stolz Appeals of KDND ALJ Decisions
Edward Stolz doesn’t have standing to appeal administrative law judge decisions on Entercom’s former station KDND(FM) Sacramento, commissioners said in an order. Stolz had filed a reconsideration petition against a hearing designation order on KDND that didn’t permit him to…
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intervene in the proceeding, and later an application for review against the proceeding being terminated (see 1612290039). The KDND HDO was terminated after Entercom voluntarily surrendered the station’s license. KDND was originally designated for hearing over a 2007 radio contest that led to the death of a listener (see 1610280058). Stolz argued he had standing to appeal those matters because he was in the station’s listening area and separately involved in a pending appeal of FCC approval of a deal involving a station that competed with KDND. Stolz raised his status as a possible potential competing licensee only after the agency rejected his listener argument, Friday’s order said. Even if he initially raised that argument, the possibility that he might win a pending case involving another station doesn’t mean he has a stake in the KDND matter, the order said. Since Stolz doesn’t have standing in the initial case, his appeal of the HDO’s dismissal is also invalid, the order said.