Ridge Radio Corp. v. Federal Communications Commission

FAHY, Circuit Judge.

The Federal Communications Commission denied the request of Ridge Radio Corporation, herein referred to as Ridge, that its application for a new standard broadcasting station to operate on 1350 kilocycles at Windber, Pennsylvania, be consolidated for hearing with other mutually exclusive applications. At the same time the Commission dismissed Ridge’s application. Petition for reconsideration was also denied and Ridge then appealed to this court.

The question is whether Ridge was validly denied the consolidated hearing it sought because its application was filed after a…