The FCC Media Bureau dismissed an application for...

The FCC Media Bureau dismissed an application for review (AFR) of the bureau’s decision denying Northeast Hartford Acorn’s petition against the caption application of Legion of Christ College for a new noncommercial education radio station. NHA in Hartford, Conn., argued that LCC of Cheshire, Conn., “lacked reasonable assurance of site availability at the tower site identified in the LCC Application,” the bureau said in a memorandum opinion and order (http://bit.ly/1h4rFVv). NHA later argued that LCC’s proposed tower didn’t exist at the time LCC filed its application, and that Optasite Tower “had apparently canceled its plans to construct the proposed tower in March of 2007,” it said. “NHA makes this argument for the first time in the AFR.” Upon review of the entire record, the bureau concluded that NHA’s argument “must fail because NHA never presented it to the Bureau,” it said. The bureau dismissed another AFR from Covenant Network for the same reason. After the FCC dismissed its application for a new noncommercial FM station in Macomb, Ill., Covenant, based in St. Louis, argued that various aspects of the bureau decisions violated the Administrative Procedure Act, the bureau said in a separate memorandum opinion and order (http://bit.ly/Qq1YsE). “Covenant makes these arguments for the first time in its AFR."