The FCC has granted Absolute Broadcastings application for review and reinstated the license of 98.5 W253AF Bennington VT and its pending modification to complete its move to 99.9 in Nashua NH.
W253AF had been deemed by the FCC to have had its licensed expired in May 2020. W253AF went silent in February 2018 due to an interference complaint from Saga’s 99.9 W260CF Manchester following W253AF’s move to Nashua NH on 99.9. Absolute claimed that the translator resumed operation in June 2018 and July 2019 but failed to produce the necessary written documents to back up the claim.
In the grant of the review, the FCC states that it relied on an insufficient factual basis when it cancelled the license, “Upon careful examination of the record, we find that considered as a whole, the evidence in this case does not reasonably support a finding that the Station was silent for 12…
