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New LPFM Station CP Is Granted Near Dallas

The FCC dismissed a fellow MX group applicant for failure to meet its localism requirements

A construction permit to build a new LPFM station in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex was granted after a fellow applicant in a mutually exclusive group was found to not have met the FCC’s localism requirements.

The Dallas-based Cedars Community Development Corporation applied for an LPFM station on 92.1 FM to broadcast from Lancaster, Texas during the 2023 filing window. It fell into an MX group with a nonprofit Christian organization, under the name CPC of the WMM-Carollton, TX-One. Its acronym stands for Christian Pentecost Church of the Worldwide Missionary Movement, detailed by extensive research from REC Networks.

Tiebreaker rules determined that the applicants would need to engage in a timesharing agreement for the frequency.

Michelle Bradley of REC Networks filed an informal objection to the CPC application this past December. She said that CPC’s listed headquarters and the addresses of each of the five directors listed on its application are more than 10 miles from its application transmitter site, arguing CPC’s application should be dismissed as a result.

For locations within a top 50 Nielsen market like Dallas-Ft. Worth, FCC rules require either an LPFM’s headquarters to be within 10 miles of the proposed transmitting antenna site or 75% of its board members to reside within the same proximity.

[Related: “FCC Dismisses LPFM Application Near Atlanta”]

CPC’s proposed antenna site was to be located on the southeast side of Dallas along U.S. Route 175, near the intersection of Buckner Blvd. This is approximately 21 miles from its listed headquarters on East Belt Line Road in Carrollton.

None of the addresses of its applicant signees, meanwhile, is closer to its proposed antenna site than approximately 20 miles away.

In its briefing, the Media Bureau said that CPC did not file an opposition to the objection.

The FCC moved to dismiss CPC’s application on the basis of REC’s objection. The commission affirmed that CPC failed to meet its LPFM localism requirements at the time of its filing. 

This means a sole LPFM station construction permit grant for Cedars Community Development. Its selected antenna site is in Lancaster and approximately 12 miles south of the center of Dallas. The nonprofit says it wishes to use the 92.1 FM signal to promote its initiatives for “financial education, community redevelopment and revitalization.”

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