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Tentative winner of 91.9 Zionsville is Kids First!!!

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perenoel6218

Last night the FCC posted the tentative winners within the 76 NCE MX groups.
Kids First has been awarded the right to construct 91.9 Zionsville following a 30 day
window from the date of the publication of the award. Kids First is an Indiana
not-for-profit 501c3 corporation whose board of directors all live close to
Zionsville. Thus the station will be operated by locals for locals. More later.
 
Congratulations Jim!
Indy has waited more than 30 years to get a community radio station. Looks like there will
now be one.
They say, all things come to he who waits. And you have waited almost 10 years for the
FCC to grant this new station on 91.9 at Zionsville. Good Job!
 
If you have a link to the list of winners, please pass it along!
 
To see the list of tentative winners go to the FCC site....then headlines for
March 27 and look for the link to the 76 MXers within NCE.
 
CityRadio91.9 said:
Last night the FCC posted the tentative winners within the 76 NCE MX groups.
Kids First has been awarded the right to construct 91.9 Zionsville following a 30 day
window from the date of the publication of the award. Kids First is an Indiana
not-for-profit 501c3 corporation whose board of directors all live close to
Zionsville. Thus the station will be operated by locals for locals. More later.
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Jim,

You are not the "tentative" winner. You are the winner. Congrats.

Now the big question:

Ala Vern Kasper, how is the tower zoning coming along? Don't hold your breath.

Have a 200 foot tower in Lebantucky you can locate on and it works with this frequency.
 
The FCC calls it tentative ... paragraph 164 of the above linked document:
"Accordingly, KFI is credited with a total of 5 points, and Harris is credited with a total of 4 points. Thus, KFI is the prevailing tentative selectee in Group 980815. A tie-breaker analysis is not necessary."

KFI got three points as an established local applicant and two points for diversity of ownership. Harris got two points for diversity of ownership and two technical points for proposing to serve more than 25% more people than the next applicant. (KFI proposed to serve 60,865 people and Harris proposed to serve 174,177 people.)

Paragraph 287:
"Group 980815. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, That Kids First, Inc. is TENTATIVELY SELECTED to be awarded a construction permit for a new NCE FM station in Zionsville, Indiana, and that its application is ACCEPTED FOR FILING. We direct the staff to issue a public notice announcing the tentative selectee in NCE Group 980815, accepting its application, and establishing a deadline thirty (30) days thereafter for the filing of petitions to deny. If, after the petition to deny period has run, there is no substantial and material question concerning the grantability of the tentative selectee’s application, we direct the staff TO DISMISS the mutually exclusive application of Mary V. Harris Foundation (File No. BPED-19950510MG) and TO GRANT the application of Kids First, Inc. (File No. BPED-19980918MG) CONDITIONED UPON that selectee’s compliance with Section 73.7005 of the Commission’s Rules, 47 C.F.R. § 73.7005, which sets forth a four-year holding period for applicants that are awarded permits by use of a point system."

The winner pending actually getting a CP ... well on their way!
 
What is the format which Kids First proposes for this frequency?

And, will they still be able to file an amendment to their application to maximize facilities, or is it at the point where as long as no interventions are received, that they need to just get it on the air and file to expand later on?

In any case, I am very glad that at least this large mass of MX groups has been processed by the FCC, and I hope it will leave some room for them to start considering new NCE and/or LP-10/100 filing windows. I assume NCE will be first, according to rumors anyway, and I am curious who will file for facilities similar to those lost by CSN when they failed to build out station DWWTS on time.
 
Kids First of 91.9fm Zionsville has not yet finalized programming schedules. That said,
however, the plan is to include some childrens music in the morning drive and
afternoon drive and storytelling on the weekends. The plan also includes airing
local musicians and discussions of local issues. Most programming will be done by
volunteers as it is a community station. Other music mixes will include recordings
other stations are not currently airing or airing minimally....such as Americana,
folk, world, electronica, movie and broadway, blues, and new artists the likes of
which one might see in a Paste magazine sampler cd. The format might include
some newscasts from Pacifica Radio if available and affordable and some of the
programming from the BBC. In the music mixes, 91.9fm will sound more similar
to Bruce Quinn's wonderfully eclectic Columbus station than say one of the high
school NCE's here in town. Nevertheless, none of this is written in stone and is
subject to change. More later, stay tuned.
 
I forgot to add comedy and satire in that tentative line-up of program features.
Oh, yes, comedy and satire!!!!

After all, 91.9 will be licensed to serve Zionsville and the quaint little village of
Indianapolis!
 
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