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FCC Report 2/7: Two Operators Seeks Translator Restoration Due To COVID-19
Outbreaks

Posted: 07 Feb 2021 12:39 PM PST
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FCC Petitions

A pair of operators are asking for their translator Construction Permits to
be restored due to the majority of their employees contracting COVID-19.

Media Logics 102.5 K273DC Sterling and 106.9 K295CS Wray COs CPs expired on
January 8. Media Logic states that both translators were properly
constructed ahead of the deadline but due to distractions related to the
COVID-19 pandemic which included owner Wayne Johnson and four employees
contracting the virus, they were unable to file their license to cover in
time.

A similar petition was requested by Glendive Broadcastings 103.1 K276GO
Glendive MT. Glendive states that its CP was properly constructed back in
July 2018. Their FCC attorney notified them in December 2020 that ahead of
the CPs expiration they had never properly filed for its license to cover.
The group never did claiming that eleven of its thirteen employees at its
studios contracted COVID-19 starting in late November. Because the
translator was constructed with a different antenna model they first needed
to apply for a modification to the CP which was done ahead of the January
11 expiration deadline, but because no license was filed for, the CP was
deleted and the application dismissed.
FCC Actions

A pair of Kentucky translators have been fined $1500 for failing to file a
timely license renewal.

Both Heritage Media of Kentuckys 103.9 W280FH Leitchfield and Letcher
County Broadcastings 103.5 W278BK Jenkins failed to file their license
renewals by the April 1, 2020 deadline. W280FH did so on July 27 and W278BK
on July 16. The FCC dropped the fines from $3000 for being secondary
service translators that both did file ahead of their licenses expiration
of August 1, 2020.
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