§  27.1206   Geographic service area.

   (a) BRS:

   (1) For BRS incumbent licenses granted before September 15, 1995, the
   geographic service area (GSA) is the area that is bounded by a circle
   having a 35 mile radius and centered at the station's reference
   coordinates, which was the previous PSA entitled to incumbent licensees
   prior to January 10, 2005, and is bounded by the chord(s) drawn between
   intersection points of the licensee's previous 35 mile PSA and those of
   respective adjacent market, co-channel licensees;

   (2) For BRS BTA authorization holders, the GSA for a channel is the
   BTA, subject to the exclusion of overlapping, co-channel incumbent GSAs
   created on January 10, 2005.

   (3) If an incumbent BRS license is cancelled or is forfeited, the GSA
   area of the incumbent station shall dissolve and the right to operate
   in that area automatically reverts to the GSA licensee that held the
   corresponding BTA.

   (b) EBS:

   (1) Existing EBS licensees. (i) The GSA of EBS licenses on the E and F
   channel groups is defined in § 27.1216. EBS licensees on the E and F
   channel groups are prohibited from expanding their GSAs.

   (ii) For incumbent EBS licenses not in the E and F channel groups in
   effect as of October 25, 2019, the geographic service area (GSA) is the
   area that is bounded by a circle having a 35 mile radius and centered
   at the station's reference coordinates, which was the previous PSA
   entitled to incumbent licensees prior to January 10, 2005, and is
   bounded by the chord(s) drawn between intersection points of the
   licensee's previous 35 mile PSA and those of respective adjacent
   market, co-channel licensees.

   (2) New initial EBS licenses. (i) For EBS licenses issued in the Tribal
   Priority Window, the GSA consists of the rural Tribal Land (as defined
   in § 27.1204(b)(3)) specified in the application.

   (ii) For all other new initial licenses issued after April 27, 2020,
   the GSA is the county for which the license is issued, subject to the
   exclusion of overlapping, co-channel incumbent GSAs.

   [ 84 FR 57365 , Oct. 25, 2019]