Sec.  73.6016   Digital Class A TV station protection of TV broadcast stations.

   Digital Class A TV stations must protect authorized TV broadcast stations,
   applications for minor changes in authorized TV broadcast stations filed on
   or before November 29, 1999, and applications for new TV broadcast stations
   that  had been cut-off without competing applications or that were the
   winning bidder in a TV broadcast station auction as of that date, or that
   were the proposed remaining applicant in a group of mutually-exclusive
   applications for which a settlement agreement was on file as of that date.
   This protection must be based on meeting the requirements of  Sec. 74.793 (b)–(d)
   and (f) of this chapter. An application for DTV operation of an existing
   Class A TV station or to change the facilities of a digital Class A TV
   station will not be accepted if it fails to protect these TV broadcast
   stations and applications pursuant to these requirements.

   [ 69 FR 69330 , Nov. 29, 2004]