The Media Bureau has before it for comparative consideration 12 groups of mutually exclusive applications for new or modified noncommercial educational (“NCE”) FM station construction permits. By this Memorandum Opinion and Order (“Order”), the Bureau performs threshold analyses and identifies the tentative selectee in each group. Petitions to deny the application of any of these tentative selectees must be filed within 30 days of the date of release of this Order.
The groups addressed in this Order consist of applications that were filed or amended in October 2007, during the first filing window for NCE FM applications. These applicants have had an opportunity to settle among themselves and are now subject to a simplified, comparative process codified in Part 73, Subpart K, of the Commission’s Rules (the “Rules”). During the first step of this process the Bureau, acting pursuant to delegated authority, uses service area population data and certifications provided by the applicants to perform a threshold analysis.
MX Group numbers 39, 59, 66, 72, 111, 125, 126, 128, 144, 189, 191, 356. Petitions to deny must be filed within 30 days of the release of this MO&O.
