FCC Accepting Applications for Radio Incubator Program
The FCC received Office of Management and Budget Paperwork Reduction Act approval for its radio incubator program and is now accepting applications, said a Media Bureau public notice in Tuesday's Daily Digest and on docket 17-289. “Each incubation proposal must…
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be approved by the Bureau in advance in order for the proposed relationship to qualify under the program,” the PN said. “The Bureau is also releasing updated versions of the instructions for FCC Forms 314, 315, and 301 to provide guidance for those seeking to file an incubation proposal as part of an application for an assignment, transfer of control, or new construction permit.” Entities to be incubated must be under a revenue cap and must certify they “would not be able to purchase a radio station or continue operating its struggling station without the support that the proposed incubation relationship will provide,” the PN said. After successful incubation relationship, the incubating entity will be eligible for a “reward waiver” of the local radio ownership rule in the same market as the incubation or a comparable one, the PN said. That comparable market provision is the subject of a challenge from the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council and the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters that was heard in the 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals later Tuesday (see 1906110073).