Media Bureau Denies WIN Recon Petition
The FCC Media Bureau denied WIN Radio Broadcasting’s petition for reconsideration of a bureau decision that reinstated WTHE(AM) Mineola, New York, and granted the transfer of the station’s license from Universal Broadcasting of New York to Cantico Nuevo Ministry, said…
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a letter in Friday’s Daily Digest. WIN argued Universal missed a January 2019 deadline to resume operations, and the bureau violated ex parte rules when it negotiated a settlement with Universal. The missed deadline was partly the result of the federal government shutdown at the time, which led to a delay in the bureau receiving filings from Universal, the letter said. The bureau also said settlement negotiations are exempted from the ex parte rules. “Whether the proceeding in this case is considered restricted or permit-but disclose, the subject matter of the settlement discussions only included ‘information relating to how the proceeding should or could be settled,’ and therefore the Consent Decree negotiations were permitted communications,” the letter said.