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FCC Dismisses Appeal of 3 Decade-Old LPTV Decision

Commissioners dismissed a petition for reconsideration by the former holder of a construction permit for a deleted Texas low-power TV station, said an order on reconsideration in Wednesday’s Daily Digest. The petition was the latest in a series of appeals…

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by permittee Gwendolyn May of FCC and Media Bureau rulings that the agency acted properly in 1990 in rescinding an erroneously granted application to assign the station to the Faith Pleases God Church Corp. The application was invalid because May let the station’s construction permit expire, the order said. Over many years of appeals, May “has failed to provide any evidence of material error or set forth any legal or equitable reason that the Commission should grant this Petition,” the order said. Any subsequent pleadings from May on the matter are to be summarily dismissed. Commissioners also dismissed a recon petition by the Daytona Beach Broadcasting Association appealing an order dismissing a previous association application for review of the agency's rejection of an LPFM construction permit, said an order in Wednesday's Daily Digest. The petition was dismissed for being filed five days late, the order said. "The Commission generally lacks the authority to extend or waive the statutory 30-day filing period for petitions for reconsideration."