The three applications, mutually exclusive with each other, were designated for comparative hearing, in which major issues included nighttime coverage and protests by two nearby outlets, WFPG in Atlantic City and WBCB at Levittown, Pennsylvania.
[9] Days later, the FCC hearing examiner recommended that the license application be denied[6] and the underlying construction permit be canceled and program testing ended.
[11] However, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered the FCC in March 1965 to accept West Jersey's application and any others made for a station at Mount Holly.
[16] To get the station, West Jersey was reported to have spent $200,000, more than two-thirds of that in legal fees and the remainder in purchases of equipment owned by the receiver for Mount Holly-Burlington and used in operating the previous incarnation of WJJZ; the new owners quipped that "only the call letters remain the same".
The station began to fall behind on its payments to the United Press International news agency; in February 1969, UPI sued for $7,649 in unpaid services and damages.
[20] In 1978, administrative law judge Thomas B. Fitzpatrick recommended denial of the WJJZ license renewal application and found Mount Holly Radio unfit to be a licensee.
[22] The FCC Review Board affirmed the decision in June 1982, calling West Jersey Broadcasting "utterly and irredeemably unfit" and rejecting a proposal to save the facility by selling to a partner who was not involved in the 1967 payoff,[23] which it declared "brazen" and "border[ing] on the incredible".
[25] Farina and his Mount Holly Radio Company would file for 640 kHz, a clear channel frequency that rule changes allowed to be installed on a high-power outlet in New Jersey, in 1980.