FCC OKs Transfer of WNMN Over Opposition

The FCC OK'd transfer of the license for WNMN Saranac Lake, New York, to Cross Hill Communications from Channel 61 Associates, denying objections from competing broadcaster Convergence Entertainment and Communications, said a Media Bureau letter to the companies. Convergence's 2013 opposition cited the seller's misrepresenting facts in a 2007 analog license application to cover a new construction permit. In 2015, the bureau reached a consent decree on violations found in reviewing the WNMN deal, with Channel 61 agreeing to pay $30,000, the letter released in Monday's FCC Daily Digest said: "The Consent Decree terminated the investigation."