Radio Group Meets With 8th Floor Aides on C4 FM
A group of radio industry officials met with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Chief of Staff Matthew Berry, Media Bureau staff, and aides to all the other commissioners Tuesday to discuss the proposed C4 FM class (see 1802140060), said filings in…
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RM-11727. The C4 proposal would allow many Class A station owners to upgrade their stations, said station owner Matthew Wesolowski, of SSR Communications, who originated the C4 idea. Though a filing by a group of station owners said both Wesolowski and REC Networks founder Michelle Bradley presented studies showing that the impact of C4 on low-power FM stations would be "largely insignificant," a filing by Bradley for the same meeting said LPFM operators are concerned their stations may experience increased interference from C4 stations. "Engineering remedies existed in each of the handful of cases where a possible conflict could arise," the station owner filing said. Bradley also said special protections or preferential treatment for one type of translator would be a violation of the Local Community Radio Act, according to her ex parte filing.