Rio Grande Family Radio Fellowship, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission

Rio Grande Family Radio Fellowship, Inc., a non-profit missionary organization operating in Texas, appeals pursuant to section 402 of the Federal Communications Act 1 from a Commission order, returning its application to operate a radio station out of Pharr, Texas.

1. Appellant submitted an application to operate a station on the frequency of 850 kHz. 2 out of Pharr, Texas. It is conceded that before the application could be accepted for consideration at a comparative hearing with other mutually exclusive applications, it was necessary to establish that the operations would not conflict with…