FCC Actions

The FM Table of Allotments has been amended to added six allocations in Hawaii following a trio of petitions for rulemaking.

SSR Communications proposed the addition of a Class A on 104.7 in Puhi on east side of the island of Kauai. A counter-proposal by Pacific Radio Group sought the frequency to be granted to a Class C3 in Kekaha on the opposite side of the island. Following FCC engineering analysis, the commission reallocated the Puhi proposal to 103.9 and Kekaha to 107.5.

SSR also proposed the allotment of a Class A on 106.3 in Lihue on the eastern side of Kauai. Pacific Radio Group filed a counterproposal for the allocation to be placed as a C3 in Princeville on the northern part of the island. The FCC’s analysis found replacement channels to allow the grant of both with the Lihue proposal moved to 107.1 and Princeville to 95.1.

In the third set of proposals, SSR sought the addition of a Class A on 102.3 in Koloa on the southeast part of Kauai. Pacific Radio Group countered with the placement of the allocation as a C3 in Waimea in the southwest. Like the other two, the FCC has granted alternate channels with Koloa getting 100.7 and Waimea 92.7.

The six channels will be made available in a future auction.

The FCC has rescinded its proposed $1500 fine against Cascade Community Radio’s 101.1 KVRN-LP Portland OR after providing tax records showing its inability to pay. The fine was proposed against KVRN-LP failing to timely file its license renewal after being granted a one year renewal term in 2022 due to prolonged periods of silence.

Pirate Actions

Notices of Illegal Pirate Radio Broadcasting were issued to property owners Somerset Maplewood LLC for a pirate signal operating on 91.7 in Maplewood NJ and Charles Wyatt for operations on 87.9 in Greenville SC.

License Cancellations

Shaw Local Radio Co. surrenders the license of 1250 WSPL Streator IL. Its Oldies format will continue on its former translator 98.5 W253BX Streator now fed by 106.1 WYYS-HD2.

Jeff Chang turns in the license for 98.3 W252CS White Plains NY. Chang took W252CS and parent 1460 WVOX New Rochelle silent in October following the closing of his acquisition of the station from the estate of William O’Shaughnessey via MMTC Broadcasting as the stations’ tower site was not included in the deal.

Silent Notifications

• Sonora Sierra Heritage Foundation’s 107.5 KJCN Sutter Creek CA (Loss of tower site)
• First Assembly King’s Cathedral and Chapels’s 1570 KUAU Haiku HI (Tower site lease negotiations)
• JMK Communications’ 1540 KREA Honolulu HI (Loss of transmitter site)
• William Gleich’s 92.5 WFDX Atlanta MI (Financial hardship)
• Five Towns College’s 1570 WFTU Riverhead NY (Went silent in August 2023 after tower site loss)
• Barry Wood’s 1550 KMRI West Valley City UT (Temporary longwire not viable for commercial operation)
• Dickinson County Broadcasting’s 92.1 WDIC-FM Clinchco VA (Operations not financially viable)

FM Changes

Adams Radio Group Country “US 93.3” WBTU Kendallville/Fort Wayne IN applies to raise its antenna height