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Jump Time In Burlington/Plattsburgh

Posted: 14 Jun 2020 09:00 AM PDT
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For the second time this month, Loud Media has flipped one of its stations
in the Burlington VT/Plattsburgh NY market.

Oldies Mid Century Radio 1070 WPLB/103.7 W279DE Plattsburgh flipped to
Classic Hip-Hop Jump 103.7 on Saturday night. The move gives the market its
second station in the format joining Great Eastern Radios 104.3 Kiss-FM
WJKS Keeseville NY for now.

Like its identically branded sister station in Fort Collins CO, WPLB will
carry Compass Radio Networks DeDe In The Morning.

The flip of WPLB follows the June 1st flip of Rock 107.1 WPLA Dannemora to
Classic Hits Lake-FM.


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FCC Report 6/14: Lack Of Synergy In Planning Leads To KLTQ Deletion

Posted: 14 Jun 2020 08:00 AM PDT
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Deletions

The FCC has deleted the license of Synergy Media North Dakotas 97.9 KLTQ
Beulah ND after a Petition To Deny from Digital Syndicate Network got the
licensee to admit it did not return the station to operations when it
previously filed a resumption of operations with the FCC from its Silent
STA on the day the license would have expired.

After its 2016 sale to DSN failed to close, Synergy took KLTQ silent on
8/15/2018 due to financial concerns. The Resumption of Operations notice
was filed on 8/15/2019 but after DSN noted that the station had not begun
operating, Synergy stated that their lawyer filed it unaware that it had
been delayed an additional day with an amendment seeking a waiver request
due to tower crew shortages and weather delays. DSN claimed it wasnt until
August 18 that it began operating.

The FCC came down hard on Synergy claiming that the unavailability of tower
crews and unusual amount of rain which made the tower site inaccessible for
installation of the equipment was due to poor planning as the station was
taken off the air for financial and not technical reasons stating that
Synergy made a business decision to take the Station off the air, and chose
not to take steps to return the Station to the air until after it had
entered into an agreement to sell the Station. Then, it decided not to
secure the services of a tower crew until it signed a lease for a new tower
site. Synergy’s choices resulted in an extremely tight timeline that did
not allow for even minor difficulties hiring a tower crew, let alone minor
weather-related delays. The situation Synergy finds itself in is one of its
own making.

With the decision, the $20,000 sale of KLTQ to William Glass was also
dismissed.


Conundrum Communications Investments Inc.s 94.1 KWDI Idalia CO was deleted
after being silent for over 365 days.
Dismissals

Centro Cristiano de Vida Eternas application to relocate 96.9 K245DE Boerne
TX to 96.7 and closer to San Antonio was dismissed after KDRY Radio Inc.
filed an Informal Objection stating that their 1100 KDRY Alamo Heights did
not grant them written authority and does not grant its consent to
rebroadcast their station as claimed in the application.
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