Attachment Narrative

This document pretains to SES-STA-20100630-00868 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESSTA2010063000868_826808

                                                                                  Attachment
                                                                            FCC Form 312 STA
                                                                                    June 2010



                               EXPLANATORY STATEMENT


Radio License Holding I, LLC (“RLH I”) hereby requests a continuation of its special temporary
authority (“STA”) to operate an existing temporary fixed-satellite earth station (Call Sign
E861076) in advance of FCC action on its pending application for assignment of the earth station
authorization from Radio License Holding I, LLC, Debtor-in-Possession (“RLH I DIP”) to RLH
I. The Assignment Application was filed on April 7, 2010 (FCC File No. SES-ASG-20100407-
00405); 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 I uses E861076 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 RLH I 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, RLH I became an indirect,
wholly-owned subsidiary of Reorganized Citadel.

Accordingly, RLH I seeks expedited grant of a continuation of its special temporary authority to
permit it to operate Call Sign E861076 in advance of FCC action on its pending application for
assignment.



Document Created: 2010-06-30 18:38:11
Document Modified: 2010-06-30 18:38:11

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