Media Access Project reports that the DC Circuit Appeals Court has ruled in favor of the FCC in the case of a legal challenge by the National Association of Broadcasters regarding the FCC's December 2007 order establishing new guidelines for processing full power FM broadcast applications when such applications could displace Low Power FM stations operating on a second adjacent channel. In the ruling, the Court had determined that the way the Radio Broadcast Preservation Act was written, it applied statutory restrictions only to third adjacent channel protections and still permitted the FCC to apply the policy to second adjacent. Prometheus Radio Project intervened in the case.
REC Networks congratulates Media Access Project and Prometheus for their involvement in the ongoing battle to protect local independent non-commercial community broadcasting.
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Editor's note: REC Networks first coined the phrase "encroachment" to describe the nature of application activity by primary spectrum users that would threaten the survivability of secondary LPFM stations. REC has done extensive research on encroachment. For more information on broadcast encroachment, see:
http://www.recnet.com/?q=encroachment
Media Contact: Michelle A. Eyre michelle.eyre@recnet.com
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