Federal Communications Commission                             FCC 13-104
Before the
Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C.  20554
In the Matter of
Columbia Union College Broadcasting, Inc.
Application for License to Cover
WGTS(FM), Takoma Park, Maryland
Stu-Comm, Inc.
Application for Construction Permit for 
Minor Modification to WNRN(FM),
Charlottesville, Virginia
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File No. BLED-20040206ADQ
Facility ID No. 12460
File No. BPED-20050818AAX
Facility ID No. 8710
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
Adopted:  July 30, 2013 Released:  July 31, 2013
By the Commission:
1. The Commission has before it an Application for Review filed by Stu-Comm, Inc. (“Stu-
Comm”), licensee of station WNRN(FM), Charlottesville, Virginia.  Stu-Comm seeks review of the 
November 2, 2005, action by the Media Bureau (“Bureau”) denying Stu-Comm’s Petition to Deny and 
granting the above-captioned application filed by Columbia Union College Broadcasting, Inc. (“CUCB”)
for a license to cover a construction permit for station WGTS(FM), Takoma Park, Maryland (“CUCB 
Application”).
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CUCB neglected to claim an exemption from the application filing fee in the CUCB 
Application; however, our remittance records show that CUCB instead timely paid the fee within fourteen 
days after filing.
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  Accordingly, in the Letter Decision, the Bureau found that the CUCB Application was 
timely filed on February 6, 2004, three days before the underlying construction permit’s expiration date of 
February 9, 2004. The Staff Decision therefore dismissed a duplicate license application
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filed by CUCB 
on February 10, 2004, as unnecessary, and dismissed Stu-Comm’s above-captioned minor modification
                                                     
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Columbia Union College Broadcasting, Inc., Letter, Ref. No. 1800B3-TB (MB Nov. 2, 2005) (“Staff Decision”).  
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CDBS assigns a reference number to each application, which reflects the date the application is officially received.  
CUCB’s Application for FM Broadcast Station License was assigned a reference number of BLED-20040206ADQ, 
indicating that it was officially received on February 6, 2004.  Under the CDBS processing procedures, failure to 
claim a filing fee exemption in Section I, Question 3, even if the applicant is otherwise eligible, is not a substantive 
defect as would lead to dismissal.  See Form 302-FM, Section I, Question 3.  Rather, if no exemption is specified, 
the CDBS system will by default treat the application as feeable and initiate the electronic fee payment system.  
Applicants with feeable applications who have failed to pay the associated fee upon filing have fourteen days after 
filing to pay the associated filing fee, which CUCB did here.  See “CDBS User’s Guide,” 
http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbs_ug.htm. The date of payment does not affect the official filing 
date of the application.
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File No. BLED 20040210AAU.
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application as unacceptable for filing for creating prohibited contour overlap with station WGTS(FM)’s 
modified facilities. Stu-Comm has also argued that the license application should have been dismissed 
because it specified the use of equipment that was different from that authorized in the underlying 
construction permit.
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  The staff’s engineering analysis determined that CUCB’s use of an antenna at 
variance with the one specified in the construction permit was permissible under Section 73.1690(c)(1) of 
the Commission’s rules.
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2. Upon review of the Application for Review and the entire record, we conclude that Stu-
Comm has not demonstrated that the Bureau erred.  For the reasons stated in the Staff Decision and 
herein, we uphold the action taken in the Staff Decision.
3. ACCORDINGLY, IT IS ORDERED that, pursuant to Section 5(c)(5) of the 
Communications Act of 1934, as amended,
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and Section 1.115(g) of the Commission’s rules,
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the 
Application for Review IS DENIED.  
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Marlene H. Dortch  
                    Secretary
                                                     
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Application for Review at 8.
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47 C.F.R. § 73.1690(c)(1).
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47 U.S.C. § 155(c)(5).
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47 C.F.R. § 1.115(g).