FCC oops

[Scott Fybush]

>    just a curious (humerous?) observation .... out of the area, yes
>
> While I was using AM query for wide DC-Baltimore area,
> I see listing for an app on 88.3, Rising Sun PA  (wherever that is)
> with call sign KQAI!
> Seems to me all of PA is east of the Mississippi, huh?

This isn't actually an "FCC oops" - it's something much more interesting.

When the FCC opened a window for new noncommercial FM applications and
major changes to existing noncomm FMs (the first such window in a decade),
the big religious broadcasters jumped on it, to nobody's surprise. Word is
that companies like EMF ("K-Love"), Calvary Twin Falls, etc. had hundreds
of apps ready to file.

Then the Commission announced, just a week before the window opened, that
it would limit each applicant to just ten applications total in the
window.

EMF tried to get around that limit by filing ten applications for new
stations - then filing 15 more to move some of their EXISTING noncomm
licenses from other parts of the country to more populated areas.

This is one of those - an app to move KQAI from Roswell NM, where it's
licensed and operating, to Rising Sun MD. We'll see if the FCC allows
those extra apps to go through, or if they decide those should fall under
the 10-app limit and toss them.

If KQAI were to be allowed to move, it would no doubt change calls in the
process.

s