Entertainment Media Trust Ceases Broadcasting
Entertainment Media Trust’s radio stations are off-air, EMT trustee Dennis Watkins told us in a brief interview. The stations went off the dial Friday, reported The Riverfront Times. EMT’s stations had been operating despite having their licenses canceled, after the…
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company ceased participating in an FCC administrative law hearing on its renewal applications (see 2004020035). The St. Louis-area newspaper quotes radio host Bob Romanik -- who the FCC said was the actual decision-maker at EMT -- as saying the stations will broadcast again. Watkins told us EMT doesn’t have plans to resume broadcasting or seek an appeal of the hearing result. The Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council wants the FCC to use EMT’s licenses as a broadcast incubator (see 2003200068).