§  74.632   Licensing requirements.

   (a) Licenses for television pickup, television STL, television
   microwave booster, or television relay stations will be issued only to
   licensees of television broadcast stations, and broadcast
   network-entities and, further, on a secondary basis, to licensees of
   low power television stations. A separate application is required for
   each fixed station and the application shall be specific with regard to
   the frequency requested. A mobile station license may be issued for any
   number of mobile transmitters to operate in a specific area or
   frequency band and the applicant shall be specific with regard to the
   frequencies requested.

   (b) A license for a TV relay station may be issued in any case where
   the circuit will operate between TV broadcast stations either by means
   of “off-the-air” pickup and relay or location of the initial relay
   station at the studio or transmitter of a TV broadcast station.

   (c) An application for a new TV pickup station shall designate the TV
   broadcast station with which it is to be operated and specify the area
   in which the proposed operation is intended. The maximum permissible
   area of operation will generally be that of a standard metropolitan
   area, unless a special showing is made that a larger area is necessary.

   (d) Licensees who have two or more TV broadcast stations located in
   different cities shall, in applying for a new TV pickup station,
   designate the TV broadcast station in conjunction with which it is to
   be operated principally. Operation in a city which is not the city of
   license of the associated TV broadcast station is on a secondary,
   non-interference basis to home-city users.

   (e) A license for a TV translator relay station will be issued only to
   licensees of low power TV and TV translator stations. However, a
   television translator relay station license may be issued to a
   cooperative enterprise wholly owned by licensees of television
   broadcast translators or licensees of television broadcast translators
   and cable television owners or operators upon a showing that the
   applicant is qualified under the Communication Act of 1934, as amended.

   (f) Licensees of TV pickup, TV STL, TV relay, and TV translator relay
   stations may be authorized to operate one or more TV microwave booster
   stations for the purpose of relaying signals over a path that cannot be
   covered with a single station.

   (g) In case of permanent discontinuance of operations of a station
   licensed under this subpart, the licensee shall cancel the station
   license using FCC Form 601. For purposes of this section, a station
   which is not operated for a period of one year is considered to have
   been permanently discontinued.

   [ 28 FR 13718 , Dec. 14, 1963, as amended at  44 FR 32382 , June 6, 1979;
    47 FR 55937 , Dec. 14, 1982;  48 FR 9012 , Mar. 3, 1983;  48 FR 17092 , Apr.
   21, 1983;  48 FR 21486 , May 12, 1983;  49 FR 7130 , Feb. 27, 1984;  49 FR 10930 , Mar. 23, 1984;  52 FR 7142 , Mar. 9, 1987;  58 FR 19775 , Apr. 16,
   1993;  63 FR 36605 , July 7, 1998;  68 FR 12769 , Mar. 17, 2003]

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