The FCC has rescinded its earlier grant of an Omaha-area low-power FM station’s permanent license after a national LPFM advocacy group questioned whether the station has actually constructed a permanent facility.
The South Omaha Hispanic Family Education Foundation applied for a license to cover the construction permit for KXOM-LP/101.1 (Bellevue, NE) on August 23, which was the deadline for getting the station on the air. The application stated that KXOM-LP was using a facility specified in a permit granted two days earlier.
The specified tower site appears to be in a parking lot along Iowa side of the Missouri River in Lake Manawa State Park. The CP specifies 100 Watts from an antenna 6 meters above the ground.
The informal objection from REC Networks says the KXOM-LP site is 120 feet from the river and in a floodplain. The document says REC is awaiting word from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources about whether KXOM-LP has permission to build a tower at the site.
The FCC had granted KXOM-LP a license to cover but then rescinded the grant after REC filed its objection. (REC has also recently filed objections against more than a dozen LPFM license to cover applications from groups that list Dan Alpert, KXOM-LP’s contact representative, as their representative.)
The permittee had not filed a response to REC’s objection as of Friday morning, Sept. 20.
The original application for the station listed three people with a mailing address at a church in Bellevue as the directors of the South Omaha Hispanic Family Education Foundation. The application also listed the church as being the main studio location for the proposed station.
The church’s website does not appear to have any mention of radio.