FCC Actions
The commission has issued its quarterly count of broadcast licenses.
Comparing the end of 2024 to the end of 2023 shows the loss of 61 AM licenses and 38 commercial FM licenses. Non-commercial FM licenses grew by 191, LPFM was up by 1, and 47 translators and boosters were lost.
The FCC has revoked the $3000 fine it proposed against Cobra Broadcasting LLC’s 95.9 KBRA Freer TX in September for failing to timely file its license renewal application. While KBRA was required to file its license renewal application by April 1, 2021 ahead of its August 1 expiration date and did not do so until July 19, 2021, the station had contacted FCC support that it was unable to login to LMS and the commission’s support services were unable to get their password reset over several days.
Pirate Actions
The FCC has issued Notices of Illegal Pirate Radio Broadcasting to property owners Roy Owens (91.5 Dorchester MA) and Mirlande Lafortune (97.1 Providence RI)…