Fine tuning KPCW
It seems would-be public radio mogul Blair Feulner was in the process of expanding his empire of the airwaves across Utah when KPCW's board pulled the rug out from under him.The Tribune's Paul Beebe reports that Community Wireless of Park City trustees nixed six applications Feulner had filed with the FCC for building a string of public stations — in Coalville, Cedar City, Richfield, Price, Moab and Nephi.
The action followed the board's giving former president and general manager Feulner the boot last week.
Board member Joe Wrona told Beebe that pursuing construction permits for more stations goes against Community Wireless's renewed committment to its Park City NPR-affiliated community station:
When I discovered that Mister Feulner was using Community Wireless to obtain these permits, I recommended to the board of trustees that we abandon any effort to perfect the applications.It was a similar Fuelner foray into a wider broadcast reach through an AM license that ended in Salt Lake community station KCPW being put up for sale and severed from its Park City sibling KPCW.
Dumping Feulner's FCC applications is another sign that KPCW's non-profit board is now working for the community rather than Feulner.
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