A federal appeals court upheld an FCC decision declaring a broadc...
A federal appeals court upheld an FCC decision declaring a broadcast license held by Eagle Broadcasting Group expired after the station didn’t operate at its authorized site for 12 consecutive months. The station, KVEZ(FM) Parker, Ariz., stopped broadcasting from…
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its authorized site June 23, 2001, because of interference and land use issues, U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia Circuit Judge Harry Edwards wrote. The station got a temporary license to operate from its studio, but went silent again Dec. 20, 2002. Though the station failed to get FCC and FAA approval to operate at a second site, it went on the air there in November 2003. It argued that it transmitted broadcast signals from that site even though they weren’t authorized, so its license shouldn’t have expired in December 2003 as the FCC claimed. “The FCC acted well within its statutory authority in rejecting Eagle’s claim that unauthorized broadcasts by unlicensed stations are adequate to avoid license termination,” Edwards wrote.