While putting the No. 1 song this week in 1965 — Simon & Garfunkel’s “Sounds of Silence” — in heavy rotation may alienate audience, true silence will attract the attention of the FCC. That’s the case in the matter of an AM radio station in Oklahoma licensed to Michigan-based Sima Birach.
Birach’s station was dark for extended periods of time during its prior license period. Now, the FCC has spoken: It is granting a license renewal, but for a much-curtailed time-frame.
