FCC Rejects AM Appeal, Deletes Meeting Item
The full FCC rejected an application for review appealing a Media Bureau decision denying review of a bureau ruling that International Aerospace Solution’s licenses for an AM station and FM translator in South Lake Tahoe, California, expired automatically for failure…
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to broadcast, said an order Tuesday. The item had been on the agenda for Thursday’s meeting as an unnamed adjudicatory matter, the agency told us. A deletion notice for the item was also released Tuesday. International Aerospace Solutions argued the Media Bureau improperly rejected its arguments that its owner had been unable to execute tasks connected with the station due to suffering from Parkinson’s disease and that the company was negatively affected by the loss of site and by the COVID-19 pandemic. Those were new arguments that couldn’t be raised in an appeal, the bureau said, and the FCC affirmed. “While IAS presents its principal’s disability as a matter beyond its control, the Bureau properly stated that the Commission expects licensees to delegate any matters they are unable to carry out themselves,” the order said. “A licensee’s choice of whether to delegate station management functions is a matter within its control.”