It began taking competing applications for all of the company's broadcasting licenses.
The broadcasting licenses of Gencorp have been under intense attack for many years by groups challenging its fitness to operate stations.
They renewed the broadcasting license and began refurbishing the station's infrastructure.
Users of public broadcasting licenses would be obliged to provide share of their programs for free.
The station operated until July 1989 before surrendering its broadcasting license.
Their broadcasting license was issued that year, but they never went on the air.
Nor can what she called "allocational scarcity" - the idea that more people would like broadcasting licenses than are available.
In January 2002, however, the station's broadcasting license expired and was given by the government to another company, forcing them off the air.
He kept applying for a long-term broadcasting license, but it was not granted to him for several years.
Their appeal was rejected by Russian media officials, and the channel's broadcasting license was extended until 2013.