Schwab Didn't Show Proof of COVID-19 Shortages, FCC Tells Court
Schwab Multimedia didn’t have a site on which to construct its AM station at the time it claimed COVID-19-related worker shortages and supply chain issues were delaying construction, said the FCC Monday in an appellate brief filed with the U.S.…
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Court of Appeals in Schwab’s latest effort to hold on to its permit for the unbuilt KWIF(AM) Culver City (see 2205090044). Since loss of a construction site isn’t among the criteria for tolling construction deadlines, the agency denied Schwab’s request for more time, the FCC said. Schwab has also introduced arguments in the appeals process it never raised before the commission, the filing said. “If Schwab now means to suggest that the Commission should have waived its rules to account for Schwab’s loss of its construction site, Schwab never made this argument before the agency,” the FCC said. Schwab submitted “generalized evidence” of pandemic-caused worker shortages and supply chain issues but “did not demonstrate that those issues had affected Schwab,” the FCC brief said.