WAY OF LIFE TELEVISION NETWORK, INC. v. F. C. C.

No. 78-1038.

593 F.2d 1356 (1979)

The WAY OF LIFE TELEVISION NETWORK, INC., Appellant, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, Appellee, Guaranty Broadcasting Corp., Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided February 8, 1979.

As Amended March 16, 1979.

As Amended March 16, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Midlen, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Roberta L. Cook, counsel, F. C. C., Washington, D. C., with whom Robert R. Bruce, Gen. Counsel, Daniel M. Armstrong, Associate Gen. Counsel, and Keith H. Fagan, Counsel, F. C. C., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

James A. McKenna, Jr., Thomas N. Frohock and R. Michael Senkowski, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for intervenor.

Before McGOWAN and MacKINNON, Circuit Judges, and OBERDORFER,, United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia.


Opinion for the Court filed by MacKINNON, Circuit Judge.

MacKINNON, Circuit Judge:

Appellant, a prospective applicant for a comparative hearing on mutually exclusive applications for a license to operate Channel 11 in Houma, Louisiana, seeks reversal of an order of the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) denying its request for a waiver of the Commission's cut-off date for filing applications. Appellant found out about the deadline on the cut-off...

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