MMTC, NABOB Lobby for AM-Only FCC Window for FM Translators

The FCC should open a license application filing window for AM stations only to get FM translators, the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council and National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters told Commissioner Mignon Clyburn. Those groups and broadcasters were concerned that a draft AM revitalization order didn't include such a window (see 1508310046). "The best way to help the largest number of AM stations to quickly and efficiently improve their service is to open such an AM-only window," said a NABOB filing posted Wednesday in docket 13-249 and unavailable now due to the FCC partial IT shutdown. "Any other approach will make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for AM stations ... to obtain the translators they urgently need."