It can’t hurt to ask, right? An individual recently sought the reconsideration of the FCC‘s deletion of a license for a low-power TV station in San Antonio.
The Commission has spoken on the matter, and it was rather blunt in its response.
Why? This matter began nearly three decades ago, prompting an RBR+TVBR OBSERVATION as to why this has dragged on since our editor-in-chief was in high school and Milli Vanilli had the No. 1 hit in the U.S.
In the Alamo City, Gwendolyn May, the former permittee of deleted LPTV station K15CC in San Antonio, attempted to further appeal the Commission’s decision to strip her of her license for failing to construct the station by the permit deadline and for allowing her construction permit to expire.
It’s a lengthy struggle for May, which filed an application for the major modification of a construction permit for K15CC on December 8, 1989. She was awarded the CP on February 24, 1989.
Yes, this matter has persisted for nearly 29 years.
On January 12, 1990, May sought to assign the CP for the LPTV facility to Faith Pleases God Church Corp. The deal was granted in March 1990. However, the Commission found that this deal couldn’t happen because of May’s failure to construct K15CC and for letting the CP expire, thus resulting in the facility’s deletion and reclassification as DK15CC.
May has been fighting ever since, and in April 2006 filed an Application for Review of a Media Bureau Video Division reaffirmation of previous decision that affirmed the deletion of the LPTV and rescision of the transfer to Faith Pleases God.
A decade later, in 2016, a FCC Memorandum Opinion and Order denied the Application for Review filed in 2006.
This resulted in the July 21, 2016 petition for reconsideration of the Memorandum Opinion and Order, which on Tuesday (7/31) was dismissed.
RBR+TVBR OBSERVATION: Twenty-nine years. 29 Years?! Are you freakin’ kidding?! We thought we spotted a typo when we read “1989” as the year this matter started. I mean, c’mon … our editor was in high school. “Blame It On The Rain” by Milli Vanilli was No. 1 on the charts. Why is this still a matter being argued and discussed at the FCC? Because this is America, and everyone has a chance to appeal. But … for this long? We will let the Commission speak for us on this one: The Commission and Division have spoken clearly and uniformly for many years regarding the matters raised in this proceeding. Over all this time, May has failed to provide any evidence of material error or set forth any legal or equitable reason that the Commission should grant this Petition. Accordingly, we hereby direct the staff to dismiss summarily by public notice, citing this Order on Reconsideration, any subsequent pleadings filed by May with respect to the Commission’s decisions regarding this matter.
OK, FCC, here’s your Long Distance Dedication: Owen Paul – My Favourite Waste of Time
