Opinion ID: 185026
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Lakeshore's Application

Text: On January 19, 1993 Lakeshore applied to the Commissionfor a permit to construct a new FM broadcast station tooperate on channel 229A. On April 9, 1993 the Commissionreleased at its Washington, D.C. press office Public NoticeNA-168, reporting the acceptance of five mutually exclusiveapplications for channel 229A, including Lakeshore's. SeeNotice of Acceptance for Filing of FM Broadcast Applications and Notice of Petitions to Deny and Hearing FeeDeadlines, Mimeo No. 32634. The Public Notice also statedthat Lakeshore and its rivals were each required to pay the$6,760 hearing fee no later than June 11, 1993, or theapplication will thereafter be dismissed. Id. When June 11 arrived the other four applicants had paidtheir hearing fees but Lakeshore had failed to do so. Byletter dated August 3, 1993 the Commission staff thereforedismissed Lakeshore's application. In response, Lakeshoretendered a check in the amount of the hearing fee, along witha petition requesting reconsideration of the dismissal or waiver of the deadline and reinstatement of its application. Thestaff denied Lakeshore's petition in 1995, and in 1998 theCommission denied Lakeshore's application for review. SeeIn re Application of Lakeshore Broadcasting, Inc., 13F.C.C.R. 19062.