Media Bureau Grants 1-Year Main Studio Waiver to Trinity, Denies Permanent One
The FCC Media Bureau denied Trinity Broadcasting’s request for permanent waiver of the main studio rule but granted one-year temporary waiver, based partly on the expectation the rule soon will be eliminated, said a letter to Trinity’s WGTW-TV Millville, New…
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Jersey. “While we recognize that the Commission has proposed to eliminate the main studio rule, the Commission has established that, until such time as a policy has been modified or changed, it should be applied according to its terms.” The transitional state of broadcasting, with stations going off-air and changing channels because of the incentive auction, was a factor in the decision, the bureau said. Trinity requested waiver after WGTW sold its spectrum in the incentive auction and entered into a channel sharing agreement with WMGM-TV Wildwood, New Jersey. The new community of license would mean that WGTW’s former studio in Millville no longer would meet main studio rule requirements, it said.