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WWIZ may go into trusteeshippoo* on# }firt obtaining PCC approval as required by law.The decision went to the Fed-eial Court of Appeals in Washington, where the FCC deciwoo was upheld. Twice the U. S Supreme Court had refused to review the case FCC early in 1964 reported the original station owner, Sanford A Schafitz, Sharon, Pa , applied for transfer of the license from WWIZ to WWIZ, Inc Sept 18, 1958 Schafita, FCC said, claimed to hold IOC per cent interest in WWIZ, Inc and in writing told FCC '‘There are no contiacts, agreements or understandings by which the stock is trans ferred ”There was such an agreement already made between Schafitz and Harry Horvitt on behalf of The Lorain Journal, splitting ownership at 55 per rent for Schafitz and 45 per cent for, the Journal, the FCC said Those documents were executed Sept. 19, 1958 and five davs later the station bccame incorporated Later, W\U? claimed befnre the FCC it had romo\cd all appearance of conti ol bs The Journal and insured against an\ attempt of the Journal to dom mate its affairs That, the FCC said in a Sept 18, 1964 memorandum, fell “into ' a pattern which we have ob ^ served time and again ” [After a licensee was found to have violated the FCC regula lions, the commission noted, the licensee would try to save his license by promising not to re ■ peat the acts and, in general, would reform Now the center of action turns , from present WWIZ ownership to the possibility of a trustee ship operation According to an FCC spokes man in Washington, DC today,' talks are under way right now to have station license apph cants, some time in the next 301 days, try to agree on a suitable1 trusteeship operation pending fi | nal award of the license ,Several applications are pend ing for that frequency, the FCC spokesman said, and the com mission “is hopeful” such an agreement can be worked out in the next 30 days.If this occurs, the trusteeship could last two to three vears* Ibefore the license finally is: granted to one of the applicants i Such trusteeships are prolonged because in some cases, the FCC representative said, unsuccessful applicants may. appeal to the commission, and if turned down there could then go into the courts.Similar trusteeship operations have been carried out in the states of New York and Cahfor ma, two examples cited b\ the FCC spokesman Undei these, profits from the operation can be held m es crow or channeled to some edu cational station This all forms part of the trusteeship operation and asr^e ment which has to be worked out arming the \ arious appli cants he said Once such a trusteeship is n stituted keeping the station onthe air, the FCC then will nt a joint hearing date to cftutkJerqualifications of all the Lcense jpplicant*Exact number of license applicanta for the channel currently assigned to WWIZ was not immediate!) available, but the FCC representative believes there are “four or five
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The Chronicle Telegram
Elyria, Ohio, US
Tue, Oct 11, 1966
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