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WICK, WYCK, and WWDL: License Status?

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While navigating the FCC Web site, I discovered a curious fact about the Doug Lane stations. On the AM Query page, which searches the FCC database for information on AM stations, WICK and WYCK do not come up. If I do a search on the frequencies 1400 and 1340 in Pennsylvania, I get a lot of stations, including a proposed 250-watter in Philadelphia on 1400...but no WICK or WYCK. Going to the CDBS page, which gives licensing and application details for broadcast stations, the FCC reports "Facility Void" for both WICK and WYCK, with an effective date of April 7, 2005.

WWDL does show up on the FM Query, but the CDBS search also shows "Facility Void" for this station.

When doing a Call Letters Availability search on the Media Bureau page, WICK and WYCK are listed as "Not Available", but no stations are listed as having those call letters!

None of the other local stations show up this way on the FCC site. All of them show up normally on the AM or FM Query page and their CDBS searches give their status as "Licensed".

Did the FCC revoke the licenses of these stations in April, shortly after Lane was convicted? Are the stations technically operating illegally as unlicensed stations, or are they under Special Temporary Authority until Doug Lane's appeals work their way through the judicial system? None of the trade publications have carried anything about any FCC action against Lane's stations.
Nor did I see anything about the FCC scheduling license revocation hearings against these stations.
 
Sounds a lot like, "The party's over, but we'll give you an STA until you run out of appeals." He may be convicted, but it could possibly be overturned.<P ID="signature">______________
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> Sounds a lot like, "The party's over, but we'll give you an
> STA until you run out of appeals." He may be convicted, but
> it could possibly be overturned.
>

Technically, a person is not "convicted" until he is sentenced. Relaible sources tell me there was plenty of appeal material in the trial. Sentencing may be down the road a piece. The other issue is how long it will be before the money runs out.
 
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