LPFM Coalition Spars With NAB on FM Translator Rules Reconsideration
NAB objections to the LPFM Coalition’s request for a stay of the FCC’s new FM translator interference rules should be rejected, the coalition said in a response filing Monday in docket 18-119 (see 1907160066). “This is not a re-litigation of…
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settled policy debates, as NAB claims, but a genuinely justiciable complaint about serious statutory and Constitutional issues,” the LPFM Coalition said. NAB argued that the coalition’s petition for reconsideration is unlikely to be granted on the merits and that the public interest would be served by denying the stay. “If NAB had serious grounds to oppose the stay based on public interest criteria, it would have done so. Instead, it simply argues that the Rulemaking is fine policy that should not be subject to a stay,” the coalition said. The FCC “should grant a stay quickly -- and do so before the Rulemaking’s rapidly approaching mid-August effective-date arrives,” said the LPFM Coalition.