The FCC has announced the tentative selectees for 93 mutually exclusive (MX) applications filed during the 2023 LPFM window.
In English: If the results hold up, these are the organizations that will get licenses for new low-power FM stations from among groups where two or more applications conflicted with one another.
The selectees were among previously-identified MX applications, as outlined by the Media Bureau, that could not come to an amendment, settlement or time-share agreement among one another. The commission then aplplies a point system to choose among the MX applications.
The full list of selectees can be viewed here.
Some notable markets involved scenarios where the selectees had equal points, resulting in timeshare agreements.
for instance, in Phoenix, The School of Hip Hop Phx and the Nothing Is Greater Than Love Foundation were selected for a timeshare on 91.9 FM.
In Cleveland, Institutional Community Development Corp. and Latinos International Festival Inc. were selected for a timeshare on 101.7 FM.
In Fort Worth, Texas, CPC of the WMM, One Inc. and LGBTQ Saves were selected for a three-sided timeshare on 99.9 FM.
Another three-way timeshare is pending in San Diego, where Football Camp for Kids, the Labors and Training and Community Development Alliance and Justice Overcoming Boundaries in San Diego County were selected for their applications on 96.9 FM.
Near Philadelphia, a three-way timeshare was awarded to Pentecostal Church of Penns Grove, Corelink Ministries of Glen Mills and Radio Phila Inc. of Newtown Square. The trio’s applications are on 106.5 FM.
In south Florida, a three-way timeshare was awarded to King Jesus Haitian Inc. of Homestead, along with La Familia De Fe Corp. and Doral Voice Corp. of Miami, for their applications on 99.5 FM.
Other notable outcomes include in New Orleans, where Light City Church was the outright selectee for the 99.9 FM application. Las Vegas Community Radio was the outright selectee for its application in that city on 97.9 FM.
Many of the tentatively selected applicants, as noted in the announcement, included requests for waivers of the commission’s LPFM second-adjacent channel spacing requirements. Each of the Fort Worth selectees, for example, requested waivers for second-adjacent signals 99.5 KPLX(FM) and 100.3 KJKK(FM) in the DFW metroplex.
The list of second-adjacent waiver requests can be found here.
Petitions regarding the selections in the MX groups can now be filed within the next 30 days. Such petitions typically come from competing applicants; local broadcasters concerned about interference or technical issues; and public interest groups.
The announcement also allows selected applicants to move forward with major technical changes, such as non-adjacent channel changes and site relocations greater than seven miles, both of which are usually prohibited. Applicants have 60 days to file these changes.
The Media Bureau had already identified more than 730 singleton applications from the 2023 window and now says it has granted more than 635 singletons.
Read the commission’s announcement on the 93 MX selectees from the 2023 LPFM window here.
