Waiver Request

0019-EX-TU-2012 Text Documents

XM Radio LLC

2012-08-17ELS_128634

                                        Before the
                         FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                                  Washington, DC 20554




                                                    )
 Application of                                     )
                                                    )
 Liberty Media Corporation                          )        File Nos.
                                                    )
For Consent to Transfer of De Jure                  )        Docket No.
Control of Sirius XM Radio Inc.                     )
                                                    )


        LIBERTY MEDIA‘S REQUEST FOR WAIVER OF TRANSFEROR/LICENSEE
             _ SIGNATURE REQUIREMENTS FOR APPLICATIONS FOR
                  CONSENT TO TRANSFER OF DE JURE CONTROL

         Liberty Media Corporation ("Liberty Media") requests the limited waiver of the

Federal Communication Commission‘s ("Commission") rules as set forth herein.                            Liberty

Media is filing an Application for Consent to Transfer of De Jure Control ("Application") of

Sirius XM Radio Inc. (“Sirius”) and thé spabe station, satellite earth station, wireless,

experimental and other FCC licenses‘ and authorizations held by Sirius and/or its subsidiaries.

As described in Exhibit 1, which was prepared by Sirius, Sirius has declined to execute the

Application.      Sirius has represented that it will cooperate fully with the Commission‘s

‘evaluation of theA Application. Id.

        More specifically, Liberty Media respectfully requests, pursuant to Sections 1.3 and

1.925 of »the Commission‘s Rules, a waiver of the Commission‘s rules to allow the eiectronic

filing of Form 312, Form 603 and Form 7037 applications for consent to transfer of de jzgre

control of the Sirius PCC licenses and authorizations without the transferor and/or licensee

! _A list of the FCC licenses and authorizations held by Sirius and/orits subsidiaries and subject to this waiver
request is annexed as Schedule 1.


electronic signatures.   Each of the applications includes all transferor/licensee information.

Siritus has reviewed the transferor/licensee portions of the Form 312‘ applications, and Sirius

has prépared the transferor/licensee portions of the Form 603 and Form 703 applications. The

Commission should grant this waiver request and accept the application forms without the

transferor and/or licensee authqrized electronic signatures because the application forms

include all transferor/licensee information and Sirius has agreed to cooperate fully with the

Commission in its evaluation of the applications. Libefty Media respectfully submits that this

approach will conserve the Commission‘s administrative resources and enable each

Commission Bureau to consider its 1‘espe¢tive electronic applications in the normal course.

       Section 1.3 of the Commission‘s Rules states that the Commission may waive any

provision of its Rules, either on its own motion or in response to a petition demonstrating

"good cause" for the waiver requested. 47 C.F.R. §1.3. The Commission generally finds that

good cause exists for a waiver of its rules "where the particular facts make strict compliance

inconsistent with the public interest" under the circumstances presented, and "when the relief

requested would not undermine the policy objective of the rule in question."         See, e.g.,

Enhanced 911 Calling Systems, 20 PCC Red. 7709 (2005), at 9. The party seeking a waiver

must show that, due to "unique or unusual factual circumstances," application of the rule

would be "inequitable, unduly burdensome or contrary to the public interest," or would leave

the applicant with "no reasofiable alternative." See 47 C.F.R. §1.925(b); see also WAIT Radio

v. FCC, 418 F.2d 1153 (D.C. Cir. 1969), appeal after remand, 459 P.2d 1203 (D.C. Cir.

1972), cert. denied, 409 U.S. 1027 (1972) (agency discretion to proceed through general rules

"is intimately linked to the existence of a safety valve procedure for consideration of an

application for exemption based on special circumstances").


         As set forth in the Application, Liberty Media is seeking Commission consent to the

transfer of de jure control of Sirius from the current shareholders of Sirius to Liberty Media.

Liberty Media already owns 47.3% of the total outstanding shares of Sirius common stock 6n

an as—converted basis" and has stated in its Application that it will have purchased sufficient

shares of Sirius‘ common stock and will convert its Preferred Shares such that the transfer of

control will be completed within 60 days of Commission consent.                 However, Liberty Media

will not convert its Preferred Shares in sufficient quantities to own more than 50% of the

outstanding common stock of Sirfus until the Commission grants its de jure transfer of control

applications.

        Here, Libgrty Media is unable to file the necessary electronic vapplications for consent

to the transfer of .de jure control of the Sirius FCC licenses and authorizations with electronic

transferor and/or licensee signatures because as described in Exhibit 1 Sirius declines to

execute the application forms and become a party to the applications. Consequently, in order

to file the application forms required to obtain Commission consent, Liberty Media

respectfully requests a waiver of the following Commission regulations requiring transferor

and/or licensee signatures of application forms:A                     |

             e   Section 1.917 requiring electronic signatures for wireless license.
                 applications (47 C.F.R §1.917);

            e    Section    5.57    requiring     electronic    signatures     for    experimental
                 authorization applications (47 C.F.R. §5.57); and

            e    Section 25.112(a) requiring electronic signatures for satellite and earth
                 station license applications (47 C.F.R. §25.112(a)).



" Pursuant to a second forward purchase contract into which Liberty Media entered, Liberty Media intends to
acquire 41,087,753 common shares on the settlement date, which is scheduled for October 14, 2012, As
explained in the Application, Liberty Media will own 48% of the total outstanding shares of Sirius (on an as—
converted basis) after the October 14 settlement date.


                                          Conclusion

       Liberty Media respectfully requests that the Commission waive its application signature

rules and accept the application forms for filing. Each of the application forms includes all of

the required information for the transferor/licensee which Sirius has confirmed or provided.

Only Sirius‘ signature as a party to the application forms is lacking, for the reasons described

in Exhibit 1. Grant of this waiver request is fully justified to enable Commission review of the

application forms required of Liberty Media.         Further, such grant will conserve the

Commission‘s administrative resources and permit use of the Commission‘s standard electronic

application filing systems.

                                             Respectfully submitted,

                                              LIBERTY MEDIA CORPORATION




                                              Robert L. Hoegle, Esquire      //f2
                                              Timothy J. Fitzgibbon, Esquire
                                              Thomas F. Bardo, Esquire

                                              Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
                                             101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Suite 900
                                             Washington, D.C. 20001
                                              (202) 712—2800
August 16, 2012


                           Schedule 1

           FCC LICENSES & AUTHORIZATIONS

                   Sirius XM Radio Inc.



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