LPFM Notice Means Broadcasters Should Be Vigilant

A recent FCC notice identifying “tentative winners” among mutually exclusive low-power FM applicants means those applicants not selected have 90 days to find an open frequency, Wilkinson Barker broadcast attorney David Oxenford said in a blog post Friday. “Broadcasters need to watch these amendments, as they could pose interference issues for full-power FM stations on channels not previously proposed for use by any LPFM applicant,” he said. Full-power stations also need to be vigilant “to make sure that none of these applications (or any amendments subsequently filed by these LPFM applicants) will cause interference to their operations,” Oxenford said.