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Wyoming Radio Station License Designated for Hearing Over Silences

The FCC designated the license of KLSX(FM), Rozet, Wyoming, for hearing over a record of “extended periods of silence,” said a hearing designation order (HDO) released Monday. KLSX went silent after one day of operation just after its license was…

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issued to Family Voice Communications in 2010 and “has remained primarily silent since then,” the order said. The hearing designation order had been set for Thursday's commissioners' meeting. The agency released an agenda deletion notice a few hours after the release of the order Monday. The station has operated just a few days a year for the bulk of its existence, a total of 396 operational days out of eight years, the order said. The vast majority of that total is recent -- the station has had a string of 254 operational days since August, the order said. That operational stretch begins just after the FCC designated another station’s license for hearing over extended silences (see 1708160032). The proceeding against KLSX will be a “paper hearing” because the FCC hasn’t found any credibility issues with the facts of the proceeding, the order said. The hearing won’t involve discovery, but the agency requested copies from Family Voice of program logs and emergency alert system records. The company has 30 days after the HDO is published in the Federal Register to provide those records, and 60 days to file a response, the order said. KLSX didn’t comment.