EMT Still Broadcasting After Losing Licenses
Entertainment Media Trust is broadcasting after having its licenses canceled by the FCC, confirmed St. Louis-area listeners and on-air radio host Bob Romanik. He was accused by the Enforcement Bureau of being the true party in control. We phoned the…
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station previously licensed as KQQZ Fairview Heights during Romanik’s On the Dark Side, and station personnel initially asked if we wanted to go “on the air.” “We’re still fighting them,” Romanik said in an interview. He said he hadn’t received many of the communications from the FCC about the hearing and license issues: “We never got any of it, we’re just gonna play it by ear till we see what the final outcome is.” The Media Bureau said in a March 20 public notice that the order from Administrative Law Judge Jane Halprin dismissing EMT’s applications to renew the licenses was final, and that EMT’s former frequencies would be protected from interference by other stations. The Multicultural Media Telecom and Internet Council pushed the agency to preserve the licenses under new ownership as broadcast incubator stations (see 2003200068). EB didn’t comment.