Second FM Translator Window Opens Jan. 25
The second window for AM stations to apply for FM translator licenses is Jan. 25-31, said the FCC Media Bureau in a public notice in Tuesday’s Daily Digest. It's open to any AMs that didn’t file in the previous windows…
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to relocate or build new translators. The bureau announced a Jan. 18-31 freeze on requests for modifications to existing translators. The FCC treats translator windows like auctions, so broadcasters should be aware of rules on prohibited communications, Wilkinson Barker broadcast attorney David Oxenford blogged. “Applicants need to read this notice very carefully to avoid traps -- traps which include having conversations with mutually exclusive applicants outside a future settlement window when engineering solutions to resolve conflicts between applications filed in the window will be allowed."