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A $4000 fine was levied by the FCC on an FM station owner who failed to file an application for license after completing construction of changes authorized by a construction permit, finally submitting the license applicaiton about 4 years after that permit had expired. When a broadcaster receives a construction permit authorizing technical changes in a station’s facilities, in most cases, it has three years to complete construction. MORE
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40 The FCC’s Media Bureau this week released a decision denying the license applications of five new FM stations, and cancelling the construction permits for those stations. The Bureau states that the permittee must construct the station and file a license application demonstrating proper construction in a timely fashion. FM Radio General FCC expiration of FCC construction permits FM permit construction deadlines form 302 license application temporary facilities MORE
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As part of its order in it proceeding to encourage diversity in broadcast ownership , the FCC adopted a number of new rules , including a rule allowing parties holding construction permits for new broadcast stations to sell those permits to " qualified entities." " The buying qualified entity would then then get 18 months to construct the new station, even if the construction permit would otherwise expire in less than 18 months. MORE
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40 When building a new radio station, the FCC gives broadcasters three years in which to construct. The deadline for construction can only be extended for limited reasons (referred to as circumstances that justify "tolling" of the permit) - for a short term equal to the period that an Act of God (e.g. While waivers of these deadlines are possible - they are very rare, and usually granted only where the completion of construction misses the deadline by a matter of days. MORE
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An FCC decision released today reminds broadcasters of the need to notify the FCC of the completion of construction of a new broadcast auxiliary station. Unlike a grant of authority to construct a broadcast station, where the new authorization is granted in the form of a construction permit, when the Wireless Bureau grants a new authorization, it is in the form of a license. MORE
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