After the sound of a ticking clock, The first song was "FM" by Steely Dan. In the meantime, some of the other applicants for the license had merged to form a group called Biltmore Forest Radio Inc., headed up by U.S. House Representative Mel Watt. The group was successful in pointing out in the U.S. Court Of Appeals in a separate case Bechtel v. FCC (10 F.3d 875) that the FCC's "interrogation preference" was "arbitrary and capricious".
Following the sound of a ticking clock, The first song was "FM" by Steely Dan. In the meantime, some other applicants for the license came together to form Biltmore Forest Radio Inc., led by U.S. House Representative Mel Watt. This group successfully argued in court (in the case Bechtel v. FCC) that the FCC's approach was flawed and lacked a clear rationale.