Attachment Narrative

This document pretains to SES-STA-20100630-00869 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESSTA2010063000869_826805

                                                                                  Attachment
                                                                            FCC Form 312 STA
                                                                                    June 2010



                               EXPLANATORY STATEMENT


Radio License Holding CBC, LLC (“RLH CBC”) hereby requests a continuation of its special
temporary authority (“STA”) to operate two existing temporary fixed-satellite earth stations (Call
Signs E020134 and E050378) in advance of FCC action on its pending application for
assignment of the earth station authorizations from Citadel Broadcasting Company, Debtor-in-
Possession (“CB Company”) to RLH CBC. The Assignment Application was filed on April 7,
2010 (FCC File No. SES-ASG-20100407-00403); however, the FCC did not issue public notice
of the application until June 2, 2010, and as a result, the application is still pending.

RLH CBC uses E020134 and E050378 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 CB Company, 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, RLH CBC became an indirect,
wholly-owned subsidiary of Reorganized Citadel.

Accordingly, RLH CBC seeks expedited grant of a continuation of its special temporary
authority to permit it to operate Call Signs E020134 and E050378 in advance of FCC action on
its pending application for assignment.



Document Created: 2010-06-30 18:17:55
Document Modified: 2010-06-30 18:17:55

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