FCC Rejects KSPA’s Request for STA
'Ontario seeks to use STA procedures to avoid the delays inherent in the AM licensing process' The Audio Division of the Federal Communication Commission’s Media Bureau has declined to let a California company use STA procedures to avoid delays in the AM licensing process. Ontario Broadcasting has been trying since 2004 to change the community of license for KSPA(AM) 1510 kHz from Ontario to Chino, an effort that has been hung up because it conflicts with two earlier, mutually exclusive short-form auction applications for Culver City, part of the AM auction process. Ontario replied by reiterating the history of KIEV(AM) on first-adjacent 1500 kHz in Burbank. In 1984, Royce International Broadcasting won a CP to build that station with Burbank as city of license, but it did not, and filed a series of requests for extension and administrative appeals that were resolved only in 2008. The…
