FCC Audio Division Rejects LPFM Applications for False Certifications
The FCC Media Bureau’s Audio Division has dismissed several low-power FM applications from religious organizations because they didn’t meet the agency’s localism requirements and contained false certifications, according to letters in Friday’s Daily Digest. LPFM applications from Yahweh HTX, Holly USA Espirit Church, Radio Casa de Adoracion TX, USA Church in the Hills and Church of the Last Call were dismissed for making false certifications about the locations of their transmitter site and the residences of their board members, according to similar letters from the Audio Division.
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Holly USA’s application was also rejected for violating FCC foreign-ownership rules, its letter said. “Despite indicating that two of the Applicant’s three directors were foreign citizens, Holly USA falsely certified that no more than one-fifth of the Applicant was owned or voted by aliens.”
All the rejected LPFM groups in Friday’s Daily Digest were represented by broadcast attorney Dan Alpert, who didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Alpert’s client Antonio Guel was barred from owning broadcast stations over a series of false filings and sham station transfers in an administrative law judge ruling in June (see 2506160044).