Sunshine State Broadcasting Company, Inc. (Wbrd) v. Federal Communications Commission

The appellant is licensee of Class III, AM Station WBRD, Bradenton, Florida, operating only in the daytime, with a directional antenna. It applied to the Federal Communications Commission for authority to extend its facilities so as to include nighttime non-directional operation with greater power. It asked that the Commission waive its “10 per cent” rule. 1

After a hearing, the examiner found appellant’s proposed additional operation would violate this rule in that the interference received would aifect 49.7 per cent of the population within the normally protected contour, and did not come…