FEDERAL CoMMUNICATIONS CoMMISSION 
WASHINGTON 
OFF IC E O F 
TH E C H A I RM A N 
The Honorable Bob Casey 
United States Senate 
393 Russell Senate Office Building 
Washington, D.C. 20510 
Dear Senator Casey: 
March 19, 2014 
Thank you for your letter regarding the LPFM application filed by Nueva Esperanza, 
Inc., in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
Esperanza is one of eleven applicants that filed for the same channel (92 .9) and location 
in the Philadelphia area, so it is deemed mutually exclusive (MX) with the other applications. 
The Commission' s Media Bureau issued a Public Notice on December 16, 2013, identifying the 
groups of MX LPFM applications, and opened a 60-day window within which the applicants in 
each group may communicate with each other and seek any of several options available to them 
to resolve the conflicts through settlements and/or technical amendments. The Bureau is 
currently identifying the tentative selectee(s) in this group and will provide the list to the 
Commission for a vote in the coming months. 
If the MX applicants in their group do not resolve the conflicts, then the Commission 
awards points to each of the applications in order to determine a tentative selectee(s). The 
criteria for awarding points are laid out in Section 73.872 ofthe Commission' s Rules (47 CFR § 
73 .872), and include the applicant's established community presence, proposed operating hours, 
and local program origination. The Rules also include tie-breaking criteria that will allow the 
Commission ultimately to select among the applicants. 
I appreciate your interest in this matter. The Media Bureau will keep you infmmed of the 
status ofEsperanza' s grant application as requested in your letter. Please let me know ifl can 
be of any further assistance. 
Sincerely, 
Tom Wheeler