Simmons v. Federal Communications Commission

EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

This appeal is from an order of the Federal Communications Commission which denied appellant’s application to reconstruct his station WADC at Akron, and granted intervenor’s application to reconstruct its station WGAR at Cleveland, for operation on 1220 kilocycles. The applications were mutually exclusive and the Commission heard them together. It found that appellant’s proposed operation would cause serious interference with stations in Canton, Ohio, and Philadelphia, and would not tend toward a fair, efficient and equitable distribution of radio service. It found…