It says it is the radio operation “with the power of heaven” and holds four construction permits for new noncommercial FMs across Nevada, California and Utah, respectively. Two of those CPs are mutually exclusive, and the FCC’s Audio Division Chief, Al Shuldiner, was asked to resolve the matter.
The result? Three of the remaining four CPs are going to Remanente Broadcasting Network.
The singleton CPs that aren’t being contested are in Crystal, Nev., and in Desert Center, Calif., near Lake Tamarisk along I-10 between Coachella and Blythe.
RBN also has CPs in Boron, Calif., and in Moroni, Utah. However, the Boron CP ended up in NCE MX Group 34 along with a Randsburg, Calif., CP from Cedar Broadcasting and a Nevada Public Radio CP in Ridgecrest, Calif. — within the vast Los Angeles DMA and long home to translator services bringing L.A. radio to the High Desert community.
RBN was the tentative selectee in MX Group 34. The Cedar application and the Nevada Public Radio application were each dismissed.
In NCE MX Group 208 is the Moroni facility. Here, the University of Utah wanted a facility in Soldier Summit, Utah. That application was also dismissed.
Triangle Access Broadcasting filed informal objections for all four Remanante applications; they were denied after a Letter of Inquiry was sent to RBN, and the answers satisfied Shuldiner.
TAB asserted that two individuals associated with RBN held attributable interest in Cadena Radial Remanente, licensee of LPFM station KZLQ in La Quinta, Calif., and Cadena Radial Mision y Vision, licensee of LPFM station KRAQ in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
Shuldiner found the record reflects that the RBN directors resigned from the two LPFM licensees in August 2021, prior to RBN filing the applications in the 2021 NCE FM filing window.
