RIDGE RADIO CORPORATION v. F. C. C.

No. 15946.

292 F.2d 770 (1961)

RIDGE RADIO CORPORATION, Appellant v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, Appellee, Dr. E. Z. Eperjessy, Louis Popp, and William H. Myers, co-partners, d/b/a Windber Community Broadcasting System, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided June 8, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Robert Bennett Lubic and Isadore G. Alk, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. Richard M. Zwolinski, Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, with whom Mr. John L. FitzGerald, General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission at the time the brief was filed, Mr. Max D. Paglin, now General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, and Mr. Joel Rosenbloom, Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, at the time the brief was filed, were on the brief, for appellee. Mr. Daniel R. Ohlbaum, Asst. General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, also entered an appearance for appellee.

Mr. William P. Bernton, Washington, D. C., for intervenor. Mr. E. Theodore Mallyck, Washington, D. C., also entered an appearance for intervenor.

Before WILBUR K. MILLER, Chief Judge, and BAZELON and FAHY, Circuit Judges.


FAHY, Circuit Judge.

The Federal Communications Commission denied the request of Ridge Radio Corporation, herein referred to as Ridge, that its application for a new standard broadcasting station to operate on 1350 kilocycles at Windber, Pennsylvania, be consolidated for hearing with other mutually exclusive applications. At the same time the Commission dismissed Ridge's application. Petition for reconsideration was also denied and Ridge then appealed to this court...

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