On Appeal, FCC Nixes Salem Cleveland Translator Plans

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The FCC has granted MEDIA-COM, INC.'s Petitions for Reconsideration challenging the grants of two FM translator modification applications by SALEM MEDIA GROUP-affiliated companies in CLEVELAND, rescinding and dismissing the grants.

MEDIA-COM challenged the grants of new sites for SALEM's CARON BROADCASTING INC.'s W262CY/CLEVELAND (formerly in BATTLE CREEK, MI) and SALEM's COMMON GROUND BROADCASTING, INC.'s W260CY/CLEVELAND (formerly in ANGOLA, IN), which specified a new site less than a mile from their original site change applications.  MEDIA-COM's argument, accepted by the Commission, was that the rules specify that an FM translator's 1 mV/m contour cannot overlap a "regularly used, off-the-air signal" of a co-channel, first, second, or third adjacent channel broadcast station and would interfere with reception of that signal; the proposed translator move would have resulted in overlap with the listening area of News-Talk WNIR/KENT-AKRON, OH, as evidenced by comments from 54 listeners in the affected area.

W260CY's move was intended to allow rebroadcast of News-Talk WHK-A (AM 1420 THE ANSWER)/CLEVELAND; W262CY was supposed to rebroadcast Religion WHKW-A (THE WORD AM 1220)/CLEVELAND.

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