KEIF-LP, or 104.7 The Rocket, lost the grant for renewal of
its license following fines in 2010, for selling advertisements and
broadcasting from an antenna nearly two times the legal height. Its license has
been declared expired and its call letters deleted from FCC databases.
KEIF-LP, a low-power FM station licensed to Enid Public
Radio Association, was allowed to broadcast nonprofit educational programming
from an antenna height of 33 meters.
The FCC issued sanctions and fines of $10,000 for the
violations, which were dated and sent via certified mail July 13, 2010,
according to the FCC letter. A copy of the renewal order was received by The
Rocket and signed for July 23, 2010.
According to a 2010 FCC report, KEIF was distributing
advertising rate cards to local businesses and broadcasting promotional
advertisements on its station. The rate card stated The Rocket’s “classic rock”
format offers “great result for your advertising dollar.”
KEIF 60 dBU Coverage Area
The report also alleged the station broadcast from an
antenna height of nearly 62 meters.
Chisholm Trail Broadcasting, which owns several stations in
northwest Oklahoma, blew the whistle on The Rocket in May 2005.
“Specifically, we find sufficient evidence of violations of
the Commission’s enhanced underwriting and technical rules that, when
considered together, evidence a pattern of abuse,” the 2010 report stated.
In the letter dated Monday, FCC said KEIF filed a license
application renewal Feb. 27, and the application was to have been filed no
later than June 1, 2011.
FCC stated the license for the station will be listed as
expired as of 12:01 a.m. June 1, 2011, and the station’s call sign will be
deleted from databases.
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