Prometheus Petition Based on 'Erroneous Foundation,' Says Garziglia
Prometheus Radio Project’s petition against the FCC’s recent action loosening siting rules for FM translators “rests upon a wholly erroneous foundation,” said Womble Carlyle radio attorney John Garziglia in an commentary in RadioInk Wednesday. Prometheus requested a stay of the…
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new rule’s April 10 effective date because it could cause low-power FM stations that need to relocate to be without any options (see 1704040046). Existing radio stations have never been “given a buffer zone against a wholly conjectural possibility of a transmitter site loss,” Garziglia said. Though Prometheus cited concerns that hundreds of translator applications would be filed on the effective date, Garziglia said that’s overstated, since few stations will be in a position to take advantage of the rule change. “It is unlikely that there will be even several dozen AM stations on April 10th proposing to extend their FM translator’s 60 dBμ contour further than 40 miles from the AM transmitter site,” he said. “Creation of a new protection for LPFMs that might lose a transmitter site is wholly unwarranted.”