Media Bureau Will Temporarily Lift Modification Freeze for Some Full-Powers, Class A's
The FCC Media Bureau will temporarily lift a freeze on modifications for full-power and Class A stations that weren’t reassigned after the incentive auction, to keep priority stations from re-displacing low powers and translators assigned new homes during the repacking,…
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said a public notice in docket 16-306 Thursday. “This action will help ensure the utility of an upcoming application filing window for secondary stations displaced by the incentive auction repacking.” A PN announcing opening of the filing period for the temporary unfreezing will be issued after the Nov. 2 close of the second priority filing window, the PN said. Under the April 2013 freeze, the bureau stopped accepting modification applications for changes that would increase a full power’s noise-limited contour or a Class A’s protected contour in one or more directions, the PN said. The bureau is temporarily lifting the freeze now with the expectation of permanently lifting it later, the PN said. Temporarily lifting it permits the agency to include more complete data in the upcoming displacement PN for LPTV and translators, the PN said. “Displaced LPTV/translator stations will thereby be able to more accurately identify available channels.” Applications pending since the freeze took effect will be processed during the temporary lift, and new applications will processed on a first-come, first-served basis, the PN said.