I may have missed all the discussion about this, but can someone
explain to me just how an apparently "commercial" station can be
issued a medium power licence in the LPFM band??

I've just returned from a few days in the Wellington region and as
much as I like the music they were playing, I just can't work out how
this could happen.

With the exception of MAI in Auckland, I was under the impression that
88.6 was set aside for GURL purposes.

Or is this a case of "Yes, you can use these frequencies for LPFM
providing we haven't already issued them to customers waving large
chequebooks at us" ??