LPFM Broadcasters Push for Translator Interference Reconsideration
NAB rebuttals of the LPFM Coalition’s petition for reconsideration of FCC FM translator interference rules “might have more credibility” if they included responses to the coalition’s arguments the order violated the Administrative Procedure Act and disenfranchised listeners, the coalition replied…
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in docket 18-119 (see 1908160056). “If the NAB had creditable counter-arguments, it would have made them.” The recon petition doesn’t repeat old arguments, it appeals new statutory and constitutional violations, the coalition said. The FCC “has no authority to jettison constitutional rights,” by limiting listener interference complaints to one per building, the coalition said. “Stubborn refusal to remedy the Rulemaking’s legal infirmities would be beneath the dignity of agency imbued with and required to abide by the rule of law." Also this week, LPFM licensee Charles Anderson countered large radio groups opposing reconsideration. “The assertion that fringe audiences are listening to 39-45 dBu signals in their homes defies logic,” Anderson said. Use of the listener data from those large groups “resulted in a flawed conclusion to the detriment of the thousands of translators now rendering valuable service" nationwide, he said.