Media Bureau Tentatively Selects Church for Iowa NCE FM
The FCC Media Bureau Audio Division tentatively selected Canton Seventh-day Adventist (CSDA) Church to be awarded a construction permit for a new noncommercial educational (NCE) FM station on Channel 254A at Asbury, Iowa, the bureau said. Aquinas, CSDA, Family and…
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Grace filed mutually exclusive applications for an NCE FM facility on this channel in the August through September 2014 filing window for existing, vacant FM allotments on channels 221 through 300, reserved for NCE use, the bureau said. The filers were required to demonstrate that their proposal would provide a first or second NCE service to at least 10 percent of the population in the proposed station’s service area, including at least 2,000 people, it said. Aquinas, Family and Grace failed to make the required population showing to satisfy the reservation criteria, the bureau said. CSDA showed it would provide first and second NCE service to 11.2 percent of the total population in its contour, it said.