Timber! FCC Erases Oregon FM For Tree-as-Tower Fail

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A noncommercial FM licensed to serve the communities due northwest of Klamath Falls, Ore., has lost its license. Its call letters have been deleted by the FCC.


What happened? As Media Bureau Audio Division Al Shuldiner explained in a letter sent on Friday to the Davis, Calif., based licensee, the station was operating from an unauthorized location for more than one year.

That “unauthorized location” was a tree, located adjacent to the one it was actually licensed to use.

 

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