[7] The Babbses had views that were in line with these programs: in 1983, when interviewed by a news service reporter, Charles claimed that "the white man is supposed to protect the other races" and called the Federal Reserve System "the Jew-controlled money standard".
[8] The Babbses' rejection of the government-assigned value of money resulted in them refusing to pay their 1981 property taxes to Gray County, where its transmitter tower was located; advertisers fled as they were garnished for the station's actions.
[13] Opponents of the station feared retribution; some refused to file petitions to deny,[4] while six local residents involved in competing applications were injured on a rural highway, their car having been run off the road at night, in what was deemed a suspicious accident.
[1] By the time of the Smith sale attempt, a local bank—Fidelity State Bank and Trust, which also was KTTL's lender[14]—was the lone advertiser on the station,[1] the others having been scared away by the racist remarks[14] or the garnishments.
[15] In April 1985, the FCC unanimously found that, despite the "reprehensible" 264 hours of Gale and Wickstrom broadcasts aired over KTTL, hate speech was protected and could not be used as a factor in denying the station a license.
Other issues to be considered in the hearing were the station's failure to keep program logs and illegally operating a mobile service common carrier, even after receiving a cease-and-desist order from the state of Kansas.
[5] In August 1986, Community Service Broadcasting, the competing applicant, proposed a deal by which Charles Babbs would drop his bid to renew KMCS's license in exchange for $10,000 and the FCC would grant the group a new construction permit for a new license to operate 93.9 FM; this application was supported by FCC staff[17] and approved by the Commission's administrative law judge,[18] leading to the end of KMCS and the award of a new construction permit to Community Service.