Attachment Narrative

This document pretains to SES-STA-20100630-00867 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

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Attachment FCC Form 312 STA June 2010 EXPLANATORY STATEMENT Radio Networks, LLC (“Radio Networks”) hereby requests a continuation of its special temporary authority (“STA”) to operate an existing temporary fixed-satellite earth station (Call Sign E940197) in advance of FCC action on its pending application for assignment of the earth station authorization from Radio Networks, LLC, Debtor-in-Possession (“Radio Networks DIP”) to Radio Networks. The Assignment Application was filed on April 7, 2010 (FCC File No. SES- ASG-20100407-00404); however, the FCC did not issue public notice of the application until June 2, 2010, and as a result, the application is still pending. Radio Networks uses E940197 in connection with the operation of the Citadel Media Networks to facilitate broadcasts to the public. On December 20, 2009, Citadel Broadcasting Corporation (“Citadel”), the indirect parent of Radio Networks DIP, and the subsidiaries of Citadel that hold FCC licenses (the “Citadel Licensee Subsidiaries” and together with Citadel, the “Debtors”), filed voluntary petitions for bankruptcy seeking relief under the provisions of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code to effectuate a restructuring of the debt obligations of the Debtors with the United States Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of New York (“Bankruptcy Court”). Upon the filing of the Chapter 11 Joint Plan of Reorganization (the “Plan”), as modified, with the Bankruptcy Court, applications were filed on FCC Form 315 on March 18, 2010 and amended on May 20, 2010, requesting Commission consent to the transfer of control of the broadcast radio station licenses held by the Citadel Licensee Subsidiaries from the existing shareholders of Citadel to the shareholders of Citadel Broadcasting Corporation (as Reorganized), the surviving company after the reorganization described in the Plan (“Reorganized Citadel”). See e.g. FCC File Nos. BTC-20100318AJP, AJQ and AJR. Those applications were granted on May 26, 2010, and Citadel Broadcasting Corporation emerged from bankruptcy on June 3, 2010. Following Citadel Broadcasting Corporation’s emergence from bankruptcy, Radio Networks became an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Reorganized Citadel. Accordingly, Radio Networks seeks expedited grant of a continuation of its special temporary authority to permit it to operate Call Signs E940197 in advance of FCC action on its pending application for assignment.


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