[grc] It only took 2,769 days ! Thanks FCC !

[Marta Ulvaeus]

This is beautiful news!!!

Marta Ulvaeus
KCSB-FM Radio Advisor
& Assistant Director for Independent Media
UCSB Associated Students
(805) 893-3921
marta.ulvaeus at kcsb.org

On May 15, 2015, at 9:29 AM, Ursula Ruedenberg <ursula at pacifica.org> wrote:

> Hey Jim - what can be said but.......(pause) (pause)
> (pause)......c----o----n---g---a----t----u---l---a---t-i-o-n-s. Patience is
> full.
> (You still want it??)
> 
> Love ya
> Ursula
> 
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Jim Ellinger <jimedia at grandecom.net> wrote:
> 
>> *Released as a Public Service of Austin Airwaves.
>> Longish posting, covering a number of current
>> CR/LPFM developments.
>> *
>> 
>> *>  2769 days <
>> *
>> 
>> *That's how long it took the FCC to issue a license for a new full power
>> non-commercial FM station for the Ellinger/LaGrange Texas area.
>> *
>> 
>> *Austin Airwaves applied for a license with the FCC on Thursday, October
>> 11, 2007**,
>> and this week, on Monday, May 11, 2015, we were granted the Designated
>> Selectee
>> status. A Construction Permit should be issued in thirty days, June 10th,
>> 2015, barring
>> an unlikely appeal from our remaining competitor.
>> *
>> 
>> *However, when asked if he thought our remaining competitor would file an
>> appeal,
>> AA's engineer said /"No I don't."/*/**/*We don't know of any basis for an
>> appeal of the FCC
>> staff's decision, though groups have been known to file appeals (and pay
>> attorneys' fees)
>> just to be obstinate and obstructive.*
>> /*"Well their barristers quit and I don't know why anyone would want to
>> take their *//*
>> *//*case on appeal. Praise the Lord,*/*/"/****says AA's ****attorney.
>> *
>> 
>> _Previously__, regarding another station app_:
>> The time to file a formal objection is the 30 days after the application
>> is Accepted for Filing - /
>> before/ it is granted.After CPs are granted, the bar is extremely high to
>> have it pulled.
>> 
>> *This is by no means a record for waiting for the FCC.  91.7FM in Austin
>> took eleven years
>> from**first public announcement to sign on of the half-time station. That
>> process involved
>> the first-ever modification of the so-called /"Wolfman Jack Treaty"/ with
>> Mexico.**There have
>> been other FM applicants that have languished before the FCC far longer.
>> *
>> 
>> *We are pleased to note that all of our work and opinions about the FCC
>> staff decisions/
>> errors proved correct. (Again, no chance of interfering with another
>> station 900+ kilometers
>> away in New Mexico!)
>> 
>> *
>> 
>> It appears that the FCC consolidated several "straggler" NCE MX group
>> decisions into one
>> Order. We had heard that this order was coming, /many moons/ ago*... **On
>> Ellinger, TX,
>> the FCC essentially agreed with our primary contentions, and _Ellinger
>> wins_ on the
>> basis of _superior 307b_, even though it has fewer points than the others.
>> 
>> *
>> 
>> * > ! 7 years and 7 months ! <*
>> 
>> *We now have three years to put the station on the air. The CP is
>> transferable.
>> We have invested about $10,000 in attorney and engineering fees to date.
>> *
>> 
>> *Thanks to everyone for their effort and support. Now someone just has to
>> build, and operate,
>> the station, indefinitely. (/How hard could that be?/)
>> *
>> 
>> *Also Good News with LPFMs...
>> There is also good news to report on the various LPFM fronts. Hot Springs'
>> LPFM station is licensed
>> and now under construction and expected on the air soon.
>> *
>> 
>> *Wimberley LPFM is also licensed and under construction. I will be part of
>> a tower crew this w/e.
>> *
>> 
>> *No recent word on Under the Hood in Killeen. San Marcos may catch a break
>> with their CP transfer.
>> Or not.
>> *
>> 
>> *AA BoD member Eric has almost single-handedly saved one or more of the
>> Austin LPFMs. But there is
>> still considerable work ahead, even before construction of any sort
>> begins. AA cannot hold the license
>> for a full power station as well as an LPFM, thus our Board decision last
>> year was, in fact, the best move.
>> *
>> 
>> *And finally, AA has offered to help out another LPFM project in Bella
>> Anse, Haiti.
>> *
>> 
>> *
>> jim ellinger
>> Austin Airwaves
>> Released May 1*3*, 2015
>> 
>> *
>> 
>> *Notice for Austin Airwaves "Accepted for Filing"*
>> 
>> http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_list.pl?Superseded=X&Facility_id=172596
>> *_Attachment_**: See MX Group 538. (A long and dense read...)*
>> *"AA Wins Ellinger" attachment is the brief, excerpted ruling. *
>> 
>> 
>> 
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