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The FCC has rejected TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO’s appeal of the dismissal of its late-filed Petition for Reconsideration of the grant of the call letters KCTI to SUN RADIO FOUNDATION noncommercial Americana KCTI-F (SUN RADIO)/GONZALES, TX.
TPR owns noncommercial News-Talk KCTI-A/GONZALES, which it bought from GONZALES COMMUNICATIONS and returned to the air in JANUARY; TPR contended that neither it nor the previous owner provided “authorized consent” to either SUN RADIO or previous licensee MARANATHA CHURCH OF LAREDO INC. to use the calls and that STEVEN OAKES, the GM of KCTI under GONZALES COMMUNICATIONS ownership, did not have authorization to give MARANATHA consent to use the calls. As for the late filing, TPR asserted that call letter issues are not subject to petitions for reconsideration and that the rule “explicitly directs licensees to ‘notify’ the Commission” when an unauthorized assignment or change is discovered. The Commission ruled that the appeal was a late-filed petition but also rejected TPR’s legal arguments, finding that the consent by OAKES was valid and that TPR’s further remedy would be in court and not at the Commission.
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