WJR, the Goodwill Station, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission

STEPHENS, Associate Justice:

This is an appeal by WJR, The Goodwill Station, Inc. (hereafter referred to as WJR), from a decision of the Federal Communications Commission of August 22, 1946, granting without hearing the application of the Coastal, Plains Broadcasting Company, Inc., the intervener herein (hereafter referred to as Coastal Plains), for a construction permit to erect a new standard broadcast station.1 WJR seeks relief also in the appeal from a decision and order of the Commission of December 17, 1946, denying without hearing the appellant’s petition for reconsideration of the…