Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
September 5, 2007
 DA 07-3838
  In Reply Refer to:
 1800B3-BSH
  Released:  September 5, 2007
Bruce G. Danziger, President
Great Northern Radio, LLC
70 Walnut Street, Suite 411
Wellesley, MA  02481
John C. Donlevie, Executive Vice President
Entercom Springfield License, LLC
401 City Avenue, Suite 809
Bala Cynwyd, PA  19004
Howard J. Braun, Esq.
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
1025 Thomas Jefferson Street, N.W., Suite 700
Washington, D.C.  20007-5201
In re: WVEI-FM, Easthampton, MA
Facility ID No. 11295
File No. BALH-20060224ABD
Application for Assignment of License
Informal Objection
Dear Mr. Danziger, Mr. Donlevie, and Counsel:
We have before us the above-referenced application (Assignment Application) proposing to assign 
the license of Station WVEI-FM (formerly WBEC-FM), Easthampton, Massachusetts, from Great Northern 
Radio, LLC (Great Northern) to Entercom Springfield License, LLC (Entercom) and an Objection to 
Assignment (Objection) filed by Irene M. Stolz (Stolz).1  For the reasons stated below, we deny the
Objection and grant the Assignment Application.   
Background.  The Objection was filed on March 29, 2006.  The record before us indicates that 
Stolz had, in fact, died on March 24, 2006.  Notice of Stolzs death was disclosed to the Commission on 
April 21, 2006, in connection with a Motion for Extension of Time, filed by counsel on behalf of the 
Estate of Irene M. Stolz (Estate).  In a subsequent pleading, counsel stated that the Informal Objection 
was errantly filed in Objectors name only because counsel for Objector had not been timely informed of 
  
1 Additional pleadings have been filed.  Entercom filed an Opposition to Informal Objection on April 12, 2006.  The 
Estate of Irene M. Stolz, by counsel, filed a Motion for Extension of Time on April 21, 2006.  The Estate of Irene M. 
Stolz, Edward R. Stolz, Executor, filed a Reply to Opposition to Objection to Assignment Application on May 2, 
2006.  Entercom filed a Motion to Dismiss Informal Objection (Motion to Dismiss) on June 30, 2006.  The Estate 
of Irene M. Stolz, Edward R. Stolz, II, Executor, filed both an Opposition to Motion to Dismiss Informal Objection, 
(Opposition to Dismiss) and an Erratum to Objection to Assignment Application and to Reply to Opposition to 
Assignment Application (Erratum to Objection to Assignment Application) on July 20, 2006.  Entercom filed a 
Reply to Opposition to Motion to Dismiss Informal Objection on August 1, 2006.     
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Objectors passing.2  On June 30, 2006, Entercom sought dismissal of the Objection on procedural 
grounds, arguing that such action was warranted because Stolz, the purported objector, was deceased at 
the time that the Objection was filed in her name.  On July 20, 2006, counsel filed an Erratum to 
Objection to Assignment Application, seeking to substitute the Estate of Irene M. Stolz, Edward R. 
Stolz, II, Executor, for Irene M. Stolz as the objecting party.  Substantively, the Objection submits that 
the assignee lacks the necessary character qualifications to hold a Commission license, based on past 
indecency violations and pending payola allegations. The Objection requests that the Commission 
forbear from any action on the Assignment Application until such misconduct allegations are resolved.  
Discussion.  Procedural Issue.  Entercom argues that death has terminated Stolzs standing to file 
the Objection. Parties that lack standing, however, may file informal objections.  Section 73.3587 of the 
Commissions Rules (the Rules) permits the filing of an informal objection by any person, any time 
[B]efore FCC action on any application for an instrument of authorization . . . . 3  Given that Stolz died 
before the Objection was filed, the pleading should have been submitted in the name of the Executor, on 
behalf of the Estate.  Counsel therefore, appropriately filed the July 20, 2006, Erratum to Objection to 
Assignment Application. We will accept the substitution of the Estate of Irene M. Stolz, Edward R. 
Stolz, II, Executor, as the objecting party.  Accordingly, we will consider the arguments raised in the 
Objection.
Substantive Issues. Indecency.  The Objection raises no issues specific to the Assignment 
Application.  Rather, Objector first states that Entercom, directly and through its subsidiaries, has 
evidenced its disregard for the Rules, particularly those rules restricting indecent broadcasts.  The 
Commission previously investigated specific indecency allegations and found that they do not put
Entercoms qualifications in question.4 Accordingly, the Objections general and unsupported allegations 
do not provide a basis to initiate a new inquiry into these matters.
Payola.  The Objection states that [O]n March 7, 2006, the New York Attorney General sued 
[Entercom] alleging that [Entercom] through its New York subsidiaries has traded broadcast airtime for 
payoffs without disclosing the source or purpose of the consideration received, and as having a corporate 
plan for the companys participation in play-for-pay. 5  Objector asserts that, given the current payola 
  
2 Opposition to Dismiss at 7.
3 47 C.F.R.  73.3587.  See also Urban Telecommunications Corp., Memorandum Opinion and Order, 7 FCC Rcd 
3867 (1992) (although agreeing that a dissolved corporation cannot be aggrieved, nonetheless considered the 
pleading as an informal request for Commission action).
4 For example, in a 2004 Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture involving programs broadcast by Entercom 
stations in the Kansas City and Witchita, Kansas markets, the Commission took into account prior indecency 
infractions by Entercom stations, and concluded that a monetary forfeiture alone was the appropriate sanction. See 
Entercom Kansas City License, LLC, Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture, 19 FCC Rcd 25011, 25018 (2004) 
(Kansas City NALF).  The Commission has since granted the renewals for other stations licensed to Entercom, 
subsequent to the issuance of the Kansas City NALF.  See, e.g., Station KCSP(AM), Kansas City, Missouri (File 
No. BR-20041001AMS, granted January 21, 2005), Station WDAF-FM, Liberty, Missouri (File No. BRH-
20041001AKI, granted March 2, 2005) and Station KKHK(AM), Kansas City, Kansas (File No. BR-20050201BFS, 
granted February 22, 2006).
5 Objection at 5.  
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litigation involving Entercom, at a minimum, action on the Assignment Application should be deferred 
until completion of the payola proceedings, which go to the core of Entercoms basic qualifications.  
On April 13, 2007, the Commission released an Order adopting a Consent Decree between it and 
Entercom, and terminated its inquiry into payola allegations involving Entercom.6  The Order determined 
that the public interest would be served by approving the Consent Decree and terminating all pending 
proceedings against Entercom relating to the investigation of whether it or any of its respective 
subsidiaries that hold FCC authorizations violated Sections 317 and 507 of the Act, and/or Section 
73.1212 of the Rules.7 The Commission concluded that nothing in the record before us creates a 
substantial and material question of fact in regard to these matters as to whether Entercom and its direct or 
indirect subsidiaries that hold FCC authorizations possess the basic qualifications, including character 
qualifications, to hold or obtain any FCC licenses or authorizations.8  We find that the Estate was 
provided the relief that it seeks, i.e., deferral of the Commissions consideration of the transaction until 
completion of the payola investigation.  Accordingly, this issue is now moot.  
Conclusion/Actions.  Based on the above, we find that no substantial and material question of fact 
has been presented. We further find that Entercom is qualified as the assignee and that grant of the 
Assignment Application is consistent with the public interest, convenience and necessity.  Accordingly, IT IS 
ORDERED, that the Objection IS DENIED, and that the application to assign the license of Station WVEI-
FM, Easthampton, Massachusetts (File No. BALH-20060606ABD) from Great Northern Radio, LLC, to 
Entercom Springfield License, LLC, IS GRANTED.
Sincerely,
Peter H. Doyle
Chief, Audio Division
Media Bureau
cc:  David G. ONeil, Esq
 Brian M. Madden, Esq.
  
6 Entercom Communications Corp., Order, 22 FCC Rcd 7121 (2007) (Order).
7 Id. at 7121.
8 Id.