Doubleday Broadcasting Company, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission, Metroplex Communications of Missouri, Inc., Kslq, Inc., Intervenor

Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge ROBB.

ROBB, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal by Doubleday Broadcasting Company, Inc., pursuant to 47 U.S.C. § 402(b) (1976), from a decision of the Federal Communications Commission that denied Doubleday’s request to conform the call sign of Doubleday’s FM station WGNU-FM licensed to Granite City, Illinois, with the call sign of its AM station KWK licensed to St. Louis, Missouri. The Commission concluded: (1) that Granite City, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri, one and one-third miles apart and separated by the Mississippi River and a land area, were…