Media Bureau Grants NCE Modification Over Objection
The FCC Media Bureau granted a minor modification permit for Call Communications Group’s noncommercial educational station WMFL(FM) Florida City, Florida, over an informal objection from the Bascomb Memorial Broadcasting Foundation, said a letter Wednesday. Call sought to increase WMFL’s power,…
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relocate its transmitter and change the station’s community of license to Palmetto Bay, Florida. Bascomb argued the changes would cause prohibited contour overlap with Bascomb’s station WDNA(FM) Miami. A long-standing waiver, called a Raleigh waiver, already allowed WMFL to overlap with WDNA, but Bascomb said it didn’t cover the changes in circumstances allowed by the minor modification permit. The Media Bureau disagreed. Raleigh waivers are granted with the acknowledgment stations may need to make future changes to their facilities, the letter said. “Because the express terms of the WDNA Waiver allow future modifications to the existing overlap area caused by WMFL and received by WDNA, we deny the Objection and grant the Application.”