Challenge To WDMC/Melbourne Renewal Rejected
August 20, 2009: The FCC has rejected a petition for reconsideration of a 2006 objection to the license renewal of WDMC-AM/Melbourne, FL (then WMEL). David Ryder, who was at the time the receiver for the station, filed the renewal application. That was soon followed by an application to assign the station from Ryder as receiver to a former licensee of the station, Twin Towers Broadcasting.
Jerry Evans filed an information objection to the assignment with the FCC, but didn't refer in the objection to the renewal, though he did mention it in the text. The FCC renewed the license without considering Evans' objection.
The FCC has now agreed that it should have considered the objection and has looked at the arguments Evans raised. The agency has concluded that the arguments Evans raised are without merit and, separately, dismissed his petition for reconsideration on procedural grounds.
WDMC is now owned by Divine Mercy Communications and broadcasts Catholic programming.
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