§ 73.3516   Specification of facilities.

   (a) An application for facilities in the AM, FM, TV or Class A TV broadcast
   services, or low power TV service shall be limited to one frequency, or
   channel, and no application will be accepted for filing if it requests an
   alternate frequency or channel. Applications specifying split frequency AM
   operations  using one frequency during daytime hours complemented by a
   different frequency during nighttime hours will not be accepted for filing.

   (b)  An  application  for facilities in the experimental and auxiliary
   broadcast services may request the assignment of more than one frequency if
   consistent with applicable rules in Part 74. Such applications must specify
   the  frequency  or frequencies requested and may not request alternate
   frequencies.

   (c) An application for a construction permit for a new broadcast station,
   the facilities for which are specified in an outstanding construction permit
   or license, will not be accepted for filing.

   (d) An application for facilities in the International broadcast service may
   be filed without a request for specific frequency, as the FCC will assign
   frequencies from time to time in accordance with § § 73.702 and 73.711.

   (e) An application for construction permit for a new broadcast station or
   for  modification  of  construction  permit or license of a previously
   authorized  broadcast station will not be accepted for filing if it is
   mutually exclusive with an application for renewal of license of an existing
   broadcast station unless the application for renewal of license is filed on
   or before May 1, 1995 and unless the mutually exclusive construction permit
   application is tendered for filing by the end of the first day of the last
   full calendar month of the expiring license term. A petition to deny an
   application for renewal of license of an existing broadcast station will be
   considered as timely filed if it is tendered for filing by the end of the
   first day of the last full calendar month of the expiring license term.

   (1) If the license renewal application is not timely filed as prescribed in
   § 73.3539, the deadline for filing petitions to deny thereto is the 90th day
   after  the FCC gives public notice that it has accepted the late-filed
   renewal application for filing. In the case of a renewal application filed
   on or before May 1, 1995, if the license renewal application is not timely
   filed  as prescribed in § 73.3539, the deadline for filing applications
   mutually exclusive therewith is the 90th day after the FCC gives public
   notice that it has accepted the late-filed renewal application for filing.

   (2) If any deadline falls on a nonbusiness day, the cutoff shall be the
   close of business of the first full business day thereafter.

   (3) The dates when the licenses of all broadcast and broadcast auxiliary
   services regularly expire are listed in § § 73.733, 73.1020 and 74.15.

   [ 44 FR 38487 , July 2, 1979, as amended at  47 FR 21494 , May 18, 1982;  49 FR 47843 , Dec. 7, 1984;  51 FR 44071 , Dec. 8, 1986;  56 FR 64873 , Dec. 12, 1991;
    61 FR 18291 , Apr. 25, 1996;  65 FR 30006 , May 10, 2000]

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