WNYH License renewed

[wgliradio]

From fybush.com

Out on Long Island, WIN Radio Broadcasting Corp. has been granted a renewal of its license for WNYH (740 Huntington), over two objections to the renewal filed with the FCC. Rob Jeantet (aka Rob Jontay, who once provided programming to the station) alleged that the station failed to maintain a proper main studio or EAS equipment, that it failed to provide him with programming logs, and that it "abandon[ed its] English language/music based format … to play a solely Korean language religious service for the entire Sunday broadcast day." Ralph Amitrano charged that WNYH was serving the public interest of Flushing, Queens, rather than its city of license of Huntington; he also claimed that the station had been off the air much of the past eight years, and that it was operating over-power at night. WIN rebutted all the claims, noting that WNYH has been operating below its licensed power under an STA by day, and has been off the air entirely at night. The company said it's installed working EAS equipment and maintains a proper studio, noted that foreign-language programming is completely legal, and it points out that there's no legal requirement for program logs to be maintained or made available to the public.

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I am still amazed at the people who are allowed to run these things. While Jeantet's basis (after the EAS equipment) is laughable, WNYH does nothing to serve the public as Amitrano attests. And we all know that during the last 8 year cycle up to renewal, WNYH (WGSM) spent alot of time OFF the air.

If I were the FCC, any commercial station that is off for 3 months or more should have its license revoked and put up for bid for LOCAL groups to bid first.

 

[bub]

I am still amazed at the people who are allowed to run these things. While Jeantet's basis (after the EAS equipment) is laughable, WNYH does nothing to serve the public as Amitrano attests. And we all know that during the last 8 year cycle up to renewal, WNYH (WGSM) spent alot of time OFF the air.

If I were the FCC, any commercial station that is off for 3 months or more should have its license revoked and put up for bid for LOCAL groups to bid first.

Don't hold your breath. I participated in a petition to deny license renewal of a station many years ago along the lines of WNYH. The fight took 2 1/2 years and yet, the renewal was still granted. These things, by and large, are a waste of time.

 

[Ted Russell]

The goofy thing about all of this is that the FCC just released a new edition of "The Public and Broadcasting" which stations are supposed to maintain in their public files. The new edition was created to inform the public about how to get more involved with the decision making process, as well as processes like license renewals and petitions to deny renewal. Apparently there is something about media information specialists that are supposed to help joe public with all of this poppycock. As you know, When I read this all I could think was "what a bunch of BALONEY!" The FCC's biggest problem is that they say one thing and do completely opposite. They say they want to promote localism, yet their actions would not indicate that at all. I respect the hard working people in the trenches at the FCC who are overwhelmed with the workload. The people at the helm of the commission; What a bunch of windbags.