The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council asked the...

The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council asked the FCC to reverse the denial of an AM station’s request to move its transmitter site. MMTC had criticized the Media Bureau for its decision, after dissent on the decision from Commissioner Ajit Pai (CD Sept 26 p6). The request “was an elevation of dated FCC procedures over the public interest,” MMTC said in a letter to the commissioners Monday. If it’s inappropriate for the bureau’s Audio Division to take the immediate action requested in the Tell City waiver application, then it’s entirely appropriate for the full commission to speak on this important policy matter for AM broadcasters, it said. The FCC can do so by immediately reversing the decision on its own motion and granting the waiver, it said.