Federal Communications Commission FCC 08-217
CONCURRING STATEMENT OF
COMMISSIONER JONATHAN S. ADELSTEIN
Re: Amendment of Section 73.202(b), Table of Allotments, FM Broadcast Stations, 
(Emmetsburg, Sanborn and Sibley, Iowa, and Brandon, South Dakota), MM Docket No. 
01-65.
I concur in this item, because I am disturbed by the Commission’s decision to grant one 
allotment proposal over another based solely on the population differential of the two competing 
proposals.  
While a population differential should indeed be one factor in our decision-making, it 
should not be the sole determinative factor.  Service to the local community, for example, should 
be a factor as well.  After all, the point of this exercise is to advance the key objectives of Section 
307(b) and to promote localism.