Fate of Mattoon Waiver in Question Following Recent FCC Decisions, Says Broadcast Lawyer
Recent FCC actions raise the question of whether the commission is getting rid of its Mattoon waiver policy, a broadcast attorney said. The FCC now seems to be backing off the use of these waivers, which allow relocation of an…
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FM translator for use as a fill-in translator by an AM station without requiring multiple “hops,” Wilkinson Barker attorney David Oxenford said Friday in a blog post. Last week, the commission upheld in an order an earlier staff decision to deny a request from Educational Media Foundation to move a transmitter site, and the Audio Division denied a similar request from Hope Christian Church of Marlton in New Jersey. All of the actions and the express proposal in the AM improvement proceeding suggesting that the Mattoon waiver policy may no longer be necessary “indicate that the days of this policy may be numbered,” Oxenford said. Until rules are adopted in the AM revitalization proceeding, there’s still time to file informal comments in that proceeding on the Mattoon waiver policy “if it might affect your operations,” he said.