Media Bureau Rejects De La Hunt Recon Petition of Main Studio Order
The FCC Media Bureau rejected De La Hunt Broadcasting’s petition for reconsideration of eliminating the main studio rule (see 1801110033) for raising issues that weren’t brought up during the rulemaking process and for being too narrowly focused, said an order…
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Monday in docket 17-106. De La Hunt has a construction permit that will likely expire before it can build a new facility, and wanted the FCC to issue a recon order that would eliminate the main studio rule but also allow broadcasters with construction permits for new facilities with less than six months left in the construction period to be given another six months to build. The company had the CP during the main studio elimination rulemaking but didn’t file comments asking for this change, the bureau said. “As part of the main studio proceeding, no party presented to the Commission the argument that it should provide an extension of time for existing construction permits.” De La Hunt’s request is more properly addressed through a waiver, the bureau said. A Media Alliance comment on De La Hunt’s petition claiming the order eliminating the main studio rule contained an error (see 1803150033) wasn’t itself a recon petition and didn’t address any issues in the petition, the bureau said in a footnote. “If Media Alliance intended to seek Commission reconsideration of that separate issue, it should have filed a timely petition for reconsideration, which it failed to do.”