Amid various petitions to deny, the FCC has dismissed four mutually exclusive LPFM applications on 104.7 (Channel 284) in the Orange County, CA area.
Applicants dismissed included:
Rock ‘n Roll Preservation Society,
International Crusade of the Penny,
Second Samoan Congregational Church, and
Newport Beach Community Radio Station 284, Inc.
According to the November 14, 2008 letter by the FCC, these applications were dismissed by the FCC as inadvertantly accepted for filing.
In 2004, there was a story in the OC Weekly discussing this dispute.
Also joining in on this dispute is Gold Coast Broadacasting, licensee of co-channel KCAQ 104.7 in Oxnard. Gold Coast has been very protective of their frequency as evidenced by many booster filings on the fringe of their service contour, especially in the dense San Fernando Valley and is currently the subject of several questionable Great Translator Invasion filings just outside the service contour of KCAQ.
The primary arugment that persuaded the FCC was that none of the 4 LPFM applicants had permission to use the antenna sites proposed in their applications.
These LPFM applicants have the normal period of time to file petitions for reconsideration.
An additional 3-application MX group in Southern California on 101.5, mainly in eastern Orange County and the Inland Empire as well as a 2-applicant MX group in Seattle are the only two MX groups remaining in the nation.
The Seattle group on the same channel as KMIH, the class D station in Mercer Island being forced to change because of metro move-in by KMCQ formerly of The Dalles, OR and now of Covington, WA.
In addition to those applications, another 12 pending singleton applications for original LPFM construction permits remain pending with the FCC.
