Discount Legal Petitions for Reconsideration of NCE Application Adjustments
The FCC should reconsider adjustments to rules for noncommercial educational station applications to review all mutually exclusive applications for possible secondary grants, said Discount Legal in a petition for reconsideration. The new rules were unanimously approved in December and take…
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effect in April (see 1912110057). Discount Legal, which helps nonprofit groups apply for NCE licenses, disagreed with the agency’s contention such changes would unduly increase staff burdens. After all the work of comparing applications to determine which are mutually exclusive has been completed, and a winner selected, a comparison of secondary options for the leftover stations can be accomplished in “a glance,” Discount Legal said. “We seek reconsideration here in the hope that, at long last, the Commission will simply ask that the staff do its job and in so doing, expand needed service to the public.”