CULVER CITY, CALIF. — Here, in the city that is home to Sony Pictures Studios and cult Tex-Mex eatery Tito’s Tacos, an AM radio station on a long-vacant frequency was to be built. Thanks to a FCC auction of 22 Construction Permits for new kHz-based facilities, the Commission revealed in May 2014 that The Levine/Schwab Partnership had emerged as a winning bidder of a new AM at 1500 on the dial.
Nearly eight years later, there is no AM station, but the man at the helm of the partnership has been arguing that he’s simply needed more time. Now, time may definitively be up, thanks to a D.C. Federal Court of Appeals decision issued March 3 that all but ends the likelihood KWIF-AM will ever sign on the air.
