Creation of a Low Power Radio Service and Amendment of Service and Eligibility Rules for FM Broadcast Translator Stations, Fourth Report and Order and Third Order on Reconsideration...Application Caps
ICR 201205-3060-014 · OMB 3060-1173 · Historical Active
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Creation of a Low Power Radio Service and Amendment of Service and Eligibility Rules for FM Broadcast Translator Stations, Fourth Report and Order and Third Order on Reconsideration...Application Caps
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On July 12, 2011, the Commission released a Third Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making ("Third Further Notice") in this proceeding, seeking comment on the impact of the enactment of the Local Community Radio Act of 2010 ("LCRA") on the procedures previously adopted to process the approximately 6,500 applications that remain pending from the 2003 Auction No. 83 FM translator window. There, the Commission tentatively concluded that the previously adopted translator licensing procedures, which would limit each applicant to ten pending applications, would be inconsistent with the LCRA's goals. It proposed to modify those procedures and instead adopt a market-specific translator application dismissal process, dismissing pending translator applications in identified spectrum-limited markets in order to preserve adequate low power FM ("LPFM") licensing opportunities. It further proposed a national cap of 50 applications and a market-based cap of one application per applicant per market for the top markets to minimize the potential for speculative licensing conduct.
On March 19, 2012, the Commission adopted a Fourth Report and Order and Third Order on Reconsideration ("Fourth Report and Order"). In the Fourth Report and Order, the Commission adopts the national and market-specific caps proposed in the Third Further Notice, and requires parties with more than 50 pending applications and/or more than one pending application in the markets identified in Appendix A of the Fourth Report and Order (the top 150 Arbitron markets plus markets with more than 4 pending translator applications) to request the dismissal of applications to comply with these limits. Applicants may request such dismissal by filing a letter with the Commission ("Dismissal Letter") identifying the applications they wish to be dismissed. In the event that an applicant does not timely comply with these dismissal procedures, the Commission staff will first apply the national cap, retaining on file the first 50 filed applications and dismissing those that were subsequently filed. The staff will then dismiss all but the first filed application in each of the markets identified in Appendix A.
US Code:
47 USC 154(i)
Name of Law: Communications Act of 1934, as amended
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Kelly Donohue 2024188192
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