Urban One Asks Pai to Act on Interference Between Full Powers, FM Translators
The FCC should act swiftly to balance rules on interference complaints between FM translators and full-power stations, said Urban One in a meeting with Chairman Ajit Pai Monday, relayed a filing in RM-11786. “While the FCC’s AM-exclusive FM translator initiative…
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is a tremendous success, it has also created unintended consequences and raises serious policy issues that need to be resolved by the full Commission,” said the licensee of Radio One stations. “Current policy fails to consider the extent to which local listeners will be affected if the programming provided by the FM translator is removed.” The Media Bureau Audio Division has said the FCC would clarify and adjust its translator interference through an administrative law adjudication (see 1707280059) that would be adopted by the full commission, but Urban One said “any draft of such an adjudicatory decision having wide-ranging effects on broadcasters and radio listeners” should be shared with the public before adoption. Until the FCC acts, the agency should “be particularly judicious in giving full due process protections” to FM translators “particularly in situations where complaining radio listeners are located far outside of the existing station’s local radio audience,” the radio-station owner said.