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Thursday, February 15, 2024

FCC Denies Reinstatement of New Mexico Station

 

Albuquerque Board of Ed’s effort fails to revive KRSN Los Alamos

BY NICK LANGAN 
PUBLISHED: FEBRUARY 15, 2024

An effort by a New Mexico school board to revive a local radio station appears to have failed.

The FCC’s Media Bureau last September had denied a request by the Albuquerque Board of Education to reinstate the licenses of KRSN 1490 AM in Los Alamos, N.M., and its FM translator. The school board then asked for a review, arguing among other things that the Media Bureau had not given the case the appropriate “hard look.”

But now the commission has upheld the outcome. Simply put, it found that the school board did not have the standing to file for KRSN’s reinstatement.