New Step-WMOM Cooks a Whopper for the COLDNews

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On the front page of Thursday's City of Ludington Daily News (COLDNews), just above the fold-line so that it would grab a reader's attention at the newsstand was a headline saying "Return of WMOM at 'standstill' in contract talks".  The article relates:

"The holder of WMOM’s radio license, Bay View Broadcasting, sent its lessee, INORADIOBROADCASTING LLC — hereafter called “INoRadio” — a cease and desist order on Sept. 25, which has prevented INoRadio from bringing WMOM back on-air, said Roger Gardner, CEO of INoRadio.
Gardner told the Daily News his company signed a lease management agreement with Bay View on Aug. 31 for INoRadio to operate WMOM using the existing radio license. He believes Bay View and it’s owner, Patrick Lopeman, breached the agreement by sending the cease and desist order."  

A cease and desist order (CAD order) is an official order handed down by a government agency or court directing a person or entity to stop doing something immediately.  Patrick Lopeman, retired radio mogul of Ludington, has no official capacity to hand down such an order.

If Lopeman sought such an order by a court or perhaps the FCC, Roger Gardner and Inoradio would have had their rights of due process to defend their interests and position.  I have confirmed through local court records and other very reliable sources that no such CAD order exists.  

It's quite possible that Lopeman may have wrote his own CAD letter to Inoradio, since individuals and entities may issue such a letter asking another individual or entity to stop some illegal or suspect activity. CAD letters typically threaten the person or entity to whom they are sent with legal action if they do not stop a specified activity.  Such a threat of legal action has no legal significance other than being a negotiation tactic.

Roger Gardner seems to  be using this misinformation as his own negotiation tactic, portraying Lopeman as the bad guy trying to keep the local airwaves of FM 102.7 silent.  Gardner, however, believes Lopeman has committed a 'breach of contract' by sending him a judicial order, when there is not any such order.  

Young COLDNews reporter Noah Hausmann and the editorial staff fail to catch the legal and logical inconsistency regarding a portrayed-as-binding CAD order being issued by a retired businessman, a businessman who just happened to run a news source in the same market for 20 years.  Oops, again. 

Here's the rest of the propaganda, for what it's worth: