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KZPO Sold

ExKynoJox said:
Bummer for the old-timers:

From Radio Insight - sold to Jesse Portillo’s Big Radio Pro is acquiring five California stations in a distress sale. The buyer is a Bakersfield based Spanish language programmer and consultant.
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Excatly whatthe valley needs one more Spanish programmed Station
 
kenrayc said:
We need more of those just like we need more R&B/Hip Hop/ Rap stations, it's pretty bad when you have to listen to AM for "White" Oldies.
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Perhaps the "White" Oldies you were thinking of were early 50's Bebop and DooWop which were known then in some parts of the country as "race music". "White" stations wouldn't play them until the tide of teenagers made the music so popular it couldn't be ignored any longer. The British Invasion changed the music but before then I'm guessing about one-third of the music most teens grew up with was "non White". It was great then and still is.
 
wb6asq2 said:
ExKynoJox said:
Bummer for the old-timers:

From Radio Insight - sold to Jesse Portillo’s Big Radio Pro is acquiring five California stations in a distress sale. The buyer is a Bakersfield based Spanish language programmer and consultant.
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Excatly whatthe valley needs one more Spanish programmed Station
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And here, boys and girls, we have an excellent example of how one can plant his or her foot firmly in his or her mouth by responding to a thread without reading it all the way through first.

Because if the poster had read the whole thread, he or she would have seen in post #24 that the sale has been denied by the FCC, and his or her post is completely irrelevant to the thread now.
 
Hold the phone !!!!!! A request to dismiss the FCC case has been filed by Vern White's
side. Looks like Vern will end up a hero after all. Give the guy his due. The FCC sat on this case over ten years and all of the actions must be dropped. Way to go Vern.
 
Filings do not necessarily equal action.

The FCC has plenty more attorneys than Mr. White.
 
Read the newest filing for dismissial yourself. By FCC law, the FCC has to toss out the entire case. Read the filing for yourself.
 
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MrZoom said:
Where are you looking on the CDBS ??
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Under the station listing itself, where all applications, actions, correspondence and legal actions are officially posted.

Where are you looking? You still haven't provided a link to this mysterious legal document.
 
It is an interesting argument, and I'm not an attorney, but this convoluted mess has gone on for so long that I expect the FCC will find some grounds over the past ten years to convince the ALJ that the motion is without merit.

Nothing that has dragged on this long is as clean as Mr. Couzens claims it to be.

Time, however, will tell.
 
1.) Mr. Couzens was an FCC Staff Attorney in the Enforcement Bureau - I'll bet he knows the FCC Rules. 2.) It matters not if the FCC staff still wants to keep going with this case -- it will then go to the full FCC Commission for them to deside.
 
MrZoom said:
It matters not if the FCC staff still wants to keep going with this case -- it will then go to the full FCC Commission for them to deside.
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And tell me, who writes the reports and recommendations for the full Commission to consider? That's right ... staff.
 
This case is NOT going to be decided by the staff. Not after 13 years. The FULL Commission will make or brake this one. Staff will have their jobs on the line when they turn this one down. And members of congress have already talked to staff. One member is from Bakersfield. Let staff do what they will. The Commission has to follow
the rules - or else. FCC rules REQUIRE that this case be dismissed.

Don't you think that the FCC looks like a bunch of ilazy idiots for letting this drama go on for 13 years. And there is still KNAC still on the books.
There will be a few less persons on the FCC staff after this is over.

When this is all over, Vern White may be the hero of the day along with his attorney.
 
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We'll see. Each of your succeeding posts sound more and more like cheerleading for Vern ... or perhaps you are him?

I'm just saying nothing at the FCC is a slam dunk, regardless of how you read a filing, and regardless of how experienced an attorney is.

I will point out to you the one thing that you keep ignoring: This has to go past the ALJ who has been hearing the case before it ever gets to the full Commission. I think that ALJ knows quite a bit about what's going on by now, and may very well point out things that Mr. Couzens has omitted to make his side look better.

And if you think FCC staff will be dismissed over this matter if it goes Vern's way, then you really have no clue has to how that agency -- or for that matter, any federal agency -- works. See, you don't just call a federal employee into your office and say "you screwed up, you're fired."

Do yourself a favor and keep quiet until this latest filing makes its way through the process. I'm not predicting one way or the other (I've just pointed out things that might prevent the outcome you seem to eagerly want) while you're just acting as if it's all over. Which it is not.
 
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