If a license has been deleted by the FCC, is there any way for that license to be “reactivated” or reissued to a different company than the original licensee?
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Deleted Licenses
- Thread starter notalkallstatic
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notalkallstatic said:
No.
- However, once the deletion is final the FCC will eventually accept applications for other companies to use the abandoned frequency.
- Sometimes, a deletion is reversed for one or more reasons. In that case the license may be "undeleted", although it will go back to the same company that owned it when it was deleted. (of course, once they get it back they can sell it to someone else)
Depends on what was licensed:
An AM daytime-only station is dead, once deleted. FCC will not license new daytime stations.
An AM fulltime station might be revived, but would have to wait until an AM window is opened. AM stations are engineered in by showing the new station protects the contours of existing stations. In other words, when the protected contours of co-channel and adjacent channel stations are drawn out, there is a "hole" available for a new station where those protected contours don't overlap. In the intervening years (perhaps I should write "decades") other stations may take advantage of the deletion to improve their facilities. Thereby eliminating the "hole" that the deleted station once occupied. Like pulling out a dead bush, and coming back years later to find the surrounding bushes have grown into that space.
A non-commercial reserved band (88.1~91.9) station, once deleted, may also be gone forever, if surrounding stations can expand their facilities. Like AM, these stations are engineered in based on protection to the contours of existing stations.
A commercial FM station operates on a channel "allocated" to that community. Unless a special request is made to delete the allocation, it will be available for new applications when a window is opened for that station. Some stations have been "grandfathered" at higher power than is normally available for the class of station, that status would be lost when the station's license is deleted. This can happen to licensed stations, too, if they lose their tower or transmitter site. E.G.: WPAY-FM (now WNKE) Portsmouth, Ohio.
An AM daytime-only station is dead, once deleted. FCC will not license new daytime stations.
An AM fulltime station might be revived, but would have to wait until an AM window is opened. AM stations are engineered in by showing the new station protects the contours of existing stations. In other words, when the protected contours of co-channel and adjacent channel stations are drawn out, there is a "hole" available for a new station where those protected contours don't overlap. In the intervening years (perhaps I should write "decades") other stations may take advantage of the deletion to improve their facilities. Thereby eliminating the "hole" that the deleted station once occupied. Like pulling out a dead bush, and coming back years later to find the surrounding bushes have grown into that space.
A non-commercial reserved band (88.1~91.9) station, once deleted, may also be gone forever, if surrounding stations can expand their facilities. Like AM, these stations are engineered in based on protection to the contours of existing stations.
A commercial FM station operates on a channel "allocated" to that community. Unless a special request is made to delete the allocation, it will be available for new applications when a window is opened for that station. Some stations have been "grandfathered" at higher power than is normally available for the class of station, that status would be lost when the station's license is deleted. This can happen to licensed stations, too, if they lose their tower or transmitter site. E.G.: WPAY-FM (now WNKE) Portsmouth, Ohio.
How about this scenario...there was an AM station in our market (Raleigh-Durham), WCRY (1460 kHZ, Fuquay-Varina) with 5kW day and 165w nighttime. They were forced to surrender their license a few years back when the commission fined owner Willis Broadcasting for multiple violations at several of their stations. Say an existing AM with comparatively inadequate facilities (a graveyarder or even a daytimer) that can't improve at their current frequency wanted to move to 1460 kHz. Would they be able to do so via a minor modification to a licensed facility or would they have to go by way of the AM Filing Window?
If the move to 1460 would be mutually exclusive to their existing facility (if, say, they were moving from 1440 or 1480 at a nearby location), they could apply to move to 1460 as a minor change.
If the move to 1460 is not mutually exclusive (if, say, they're proposing to move from 1530), it's a major change and has to wait for a filing window.
If the move to 1460 is not mutually exclusive (if, say, they're proposing to move from 1530), it's a major change and has to wait for a filing window.
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