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FCC Offers Examples for Translator Apps
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If you
are among those who have an FM translator application (or two, or a few
hundred) in front of the FCC, this one’s for you.
The Media
Bureau has published examples to help clarify your “application selections and
cap showing requirements.”
As RW has reported, the Media
Bureau in December announced a filing window that opens tomorrow, Jan. 10, and
runs to Jan. 25, in which certain Auction 83 FM translator applicants must make
those application selections and cap showings. This all comes out of the recent
LPFM order, setting out how the low-power service is going to be expanded and
how translator applicants will be affected as a result.
Now
the bureau says it has heard numerous questions about the translator filing
requirements. “To assist existing FM translator applicants, the bureau has prepared
the following examples to clarify and illustrate the required submissions.”
You can read them here:
/Portals/0/fccnotice010913z.doc
The bureau added
that these are intended to provide general guidance only. “The staff will make
specific rulings in response to actual selections and submissions on a
case-by-case basis.” For more info it asked applicants to contact James
Bradshaw or Robert Gates, Audio Division, Media Bureau, (202) 418-2700.
In
blogging about this, broadcast lawyers at Fletcher Heald and Hildreth note that
for these translator applicants, “a considerable
amount of work must be done, and there’s not a lot of time to do it in.” FHH says though
that, “Translator applicants currently
struggling with making selections and assembling showings would be well-advised
to take a few minutes (and a couple of deep breaths) and check out the Bureau’s
examples.”
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