However, as TV Martí was approved for full-time operations and with the law authorizing WETV and TV Martí to share time on the channel (by way of Martí leasing it from WETV) only through November 30, the FCC moved in October to dismiss the application to sell the station, saying it would not be in the national interest to authorize the sale when the channel was weeks away from being reclaimed under the provisions of the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act, which afforded no discretion to the commission.