Prometheus Files Recon Petition on Translator Siting Rule; FCC Silent on Stay Request
The FCC should vacate its order loosening the siting restrictions for FM translators, Prometheus Radio Project said in a petition for reconsideration of the FCC’s February order filed Monday, the effective date of the new siting rules. Prometheus had previously…
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requested a stay of that effective date, but the day came and went with no FCC response to the stay request, a Media Bureau spokeswoman confirmed. “Countless incumbent LPFM stations that are outside the core service area of AM stations will now be severely limited when seeking to relocate within their communities of service because new and relocated FM translators will inevitably box in or short-space them,” Prometheus said in the petition. NAB and several broadcast attorneys opposed the Prometheus petition (see 1704070070). Along with reconsidering the removal of the restriction that translators must be within 40 miles of their transmitter, the FCC should issue a new Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on adequately protecting LPFM stations from being boxed in by FM translators, the petition said.