A request to cancel a Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture from a low-power religious station serving the Twin Tiers region of Western New York and Pennsylvania has been granted by the FCC’s Media Bureau.
It’s a victory for Corning Christian Radio Corp., licensee of WLRG-LPFM 107.5 in Corning, N.Y.
The facility has all but two watts, and the Media Bureau handed it a NALF for apparently willfully violating section 73.3539 of the Commission’s rules by failing to timely file a license renewal application for the station.
In the NAL, the Audio Division of the Media Bureau proposed a reduced forfeiture amount of $1,500, standard for a low-power facility (it is 50% of a full-power forfeiture base amount).
In a timely manner, CCRC requested cancellation of the $1,500 fine due to an inability to pay it. Specifically, the licensee submitted three years of federal tax returns from 2019 through 2021, indicating that it operated with a net loss in 2019 and 2020, and a net gain less than the proposed forfeiture amount in 2021.
As such, the forfeiture was cancelled by Audio Division Chief Al Shuldiner. Instead, CCRC was admonished.
