The Vikings were overlooked when the initial set of licences were awarded in 2008, losing out to Salford and Celtic Crusaders, but have worked tirelessly to ensure this year's application would be accepted.
Despite widespread support, KISS missed out on the first set of licences, but successfully reapplied when second round were offered and re-launched as a legal station on the 1 September 1990.
Institutions, projects and scientists need three sets of licences.
Chris Humphries, chief executive of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, the body responsible for deciding which ones will live to fight another day, says: "We don't have a set number of licences that we believe is the right one and we are absolutely not assuming that every SSC can or will pass the re-licensing test".
Other items up for grabs included a set of expired driving licences and a collection of DVDs of the Carol Burnett Show.
But the killer feature of HD Radio is not so much the quality of its sound, but the way it saves broadcasters from having to seek a separate set of frequencies and pay additional licence fees when adding digital channels to their programming.For that, local radio stations across America can thank the FCC, which took extra precautions when apportioning frequency spectrum to radio stations.
The row centres around the future use of the so-called "switchover surplus" - money left over from the £130m a year of licence fee funding set aside to help the most vulnerable and disadvantaged get digital TV receivers between now and 2012.
After the analogue TV signal is switched off in 2012, the government proposes that the same amount of licence fee money set aside annually for the digital surplus be spent instead on non-BBC public service content, including the replacement ITV news service.
It sets strategic objectives and is "the guardian of licence fee revenue and of the public interest in the BBC".
Each vehicle needs to broadcast the licence plate information, and a function of licence plate comparison is included.
