FCC Web Documents citing 74.731

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  • the transmitting system after installation. This person must certify in the application for the station license that the transmitting equipment meets the requirements of paragraph (d)(l) of this section. A report of the methods, measurements, and results must be kept in the station records. However, sta tions installing modulating equipment solely for the limited local origination of signals permitted by §74.731 need not comply with the requirements of this paragraph. 33. Section 74.765 is amended by removing paragraph (b) and redesignating paragraph (c) as paragraph (b), re spectively. 34. Section 74.769 is revised to read as follows: §74.769 Copies of rules. The licensee or permittee of a station authorized under this subpart shall have a current copy of Volume I and
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  • No. 134300 Dear Licensees: This is with respect to the above-referenced application for a construction permit for a new TV booster station on channel 63, filed by Biltmore Broadcasting, LLC, the licensee of station KADY-TV, channel 63, Oxnard, California. Sunbelt Television, Inc., the licensee of station KHIZ(TV), channel 64, Barstow, California, filed a petition to deny, which Biltmore opposes. Section 74.731(j) of the Commission's rules provides that a television booster station -- which is intended to provide a means whereby a television broadcast licensee may provide service to areas of low signal strength within the television station's Grade B contour -- "may not be located outside the predicted Grade B of its primary station nor may the predicted Grade B signal
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  • Rather than issue experimental letter authorizations, the procedure we described in the Implementation Order, we will allow the LPTV stations that are eligible for the pilot project to participate in the pilot project for the term of their LPTV licenses, including renewals of those licenses, subject to early termination if irremediable interference occurs, pursuant to the statute. Pursuant to Section 74.731(g) of our rules, LPTV stations may operate as TV translator stations, or to originate programming and commercial matter, either through the retransmission of a TV broadcast signal or via original programming. To allow the pilot project stations to participate in the project, we will grant them a waiver of this rule. The waiver will be renewable with the renewal of
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  • 11 FCC Rcd 10968, 10995 (1996). Pub. L. No. 106-113, 113 Stat. Appendix I at 1501A-594 - 1501A-598, codified at 47 U.S.C. § 336(f). Licensees can switch between LPTV and TV translator designation by simple letter notification to the Commission. 47 C.F.R. § 74.732(e). Public Notice, Broadcast Station Totals as of March 31, 2003 (May 5, 2003). 47 C.F.R. § 74.731(f). See Amendment of Part 74 of the Commission's Rules Concerning FM Booster Stations and Television Booster Stations, 2 FCC Rcd 4625 (1987). 47 C.F.R. § 74.701. 47 C.F.R. § 74.784. The rebroadcast consent requirement is statutory. See 47 U.S.C. § 325(a). 47 C.F.R. § 74.731. Id. Id. Certain ancillary services may also be transmitted in the vertical blanketing interval and
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  • purpose of providing television reception to the general public''); id. § 74.701(f) (defining ``low power television station'' as ``[a] station authorized under the provisions of this subpart that may retransmit the programs and signals of a TV broadcast station and that may originate programming in any amount greater than 30 seconds per hour and/or operates a subscription service''); id. § 74.731(g) (indicating that an LPTV station may operate ``[a]s a TV translator station'' or ``[f]or origination of programming and commercial matter as defined in § 74.701(f)''). Significantly, although the rules define FM and TV translators similarly, the FM rules also define a ``noncommercial FM translator station,'' id. § 74.1201(c), but the TV rules do not define or otherwise reference a ``noncommercial
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  • consumers in any given market are not left without broadcast television service as of January 1, 2007, the conference agreement includes new section 309(j)(14)(B) of the Communications Act which requires the Commission to grant extensions to any station in any television market if any one of the following three conditions exist.''). 47 U.S.C. § 309(j)(14)(B)(iii)(II). 47 C.F.R. § 74.701(a). Section 74.731(d) of the rules also states: ``The technical characteristics of the retransmitted signals shall not be deliberately altered so as to hinder reception on conventional television broadcast receivers.'' 47 C.F.R. § 74.731(d). Conference Report at 577. See id. (``a television household must receive at least one programming signal from each local television station broadcasting a digital television service signal in order
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  • 1501A-594 - 1501A-598, codified at 47 U.S.C. § 336(f). Public Notice, Broadcast Station Totals as of March 31, 2004 (released April 27, 2004). Licensees can switch between LPTV and TV translator designation by simple letter notification to the Commission. 47 C.F.R. § 74.732(e). Public Notice, Broadcast Station Totals as of March 31, 2004 (released April 27, 2004). 47 C.F.R. § 74.731(f). See Amendment of Part 74 of the Commission's Rules Concerning FM Booster Stations and Television Booster Stations, 2 FCC Rcd 4625 (1987). Parties filing comments and reply comments and abbreviated name references for each are listed in Appendix A. See, e.g., NTA Comments at 8 and Entravision Comments at 2. With very few exceptions, commenters not specifically focusing on this
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  • to the notice and comment requirements of the Administrative Procedures Act); Buckeye Cablevision, Inc. v. United States , 438 F.2d 948, 952-53 (6th Cir. 1971) (same); Kessler v. FCC, 326 F. 2d 673, 680-82 (D.C. Cir. 1963) (same). See 5 U.S.C. § 553(b)(B), (d)(3). See Digital LPTV Order, 19 FCC Rcd at 19382. Id.at 19389, n.363. See 47 C.F.R. § 74.731(f) and (g), and 47 C.F.R. §74.701(f). PSAs originated by TV translators are limited to 30 seconds each and not more than once per hour. Digital LPTV Order, 19 FCC Rcd at 19381-2. Id. Digital LPTV Order, 19 FCC Rcd at 19391. Id. Id. at 19392. Third Periodic DTV Report and Order, 23 FCC Rcd at 3083. Id. at 3084. 47
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  • channel. Class A TV applicants must certify that their proposed post-transition digital facilities meet all Class A TV interference protection requirements. PART 74 - EXPERIMENTAL RADIO, AUXILIARY, SPECIAL BROADCAST AND OTHER PROGRAM DISTRIBUTIONAL SERVICES 4. The authority citation for Part 74 is amended to read as follows: Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 303, 307, 309, 336 and 554 5. Amend Section 74.731 to read as follows: § 74.731 Purpose and permissible service. * * * * * (l) After 11:59 pm local time on September 1, 2015, low power television, TV translators and Class A television stations may no longer operate any facility in analog (NTSC) mode. 6. Amend Section 74.735 to read as follows: § 74.735 Power limitations. * * *
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  • the transmitting system after installation. This person must certify in the application for the station license that the transmitting equipment meets the requirements of paragraph (d)(l) of this section. A report of the methods, measurements, and results must be kept in the station records. However, sta tions installing modulating equipment solely for the limited local origination of signals permitted by §74.731 need not comply with the requirements of this paragraph. 33. Section 74.765 is amended by removing paragraph (b) and redesignating paragraph (c) as paragraph (b), re spectively. 34. Section 74.769 is revised to read as follows: §74.769 Copies of rules. The licensee or permittee of a station authorized under this subpart shall have a current copy of Volume I and
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  • Marks CableVision, 12 FCC Rcd 22989, 22993 (1997). See Debra D. Carrigan, 100 FCC 2d 721, 728 (1985)("The foremost example of a broadcast channel intended expressly to be a 'regional' rather than a local facility, is, of course, a television channel"). See The Chronicle Publishing Company d/b/a Ventura County Cablevision, 10 FCC Rcd 9474, 9482 n. 27 (1995). 47 C.F.R. §74.731(a). See also Implementation of the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992, Broadcast Signal Carriage Issues (``Must Carry Order''), 8 FCC Rcd 2965, 2991 (1993). Reply at Exhibits A, B and C. See Colorado Radio Corp. v. FCC, 118 F. 2d 24 (D.C. Cir. 1941)(a litigant "[cannot] sit back and hope that a decision will be in its
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  • examine the transmitting system after installation. This person must certify in the application for the station license that the transmitting equipment meets the requirements of paragraph (d)(1) of this section. A report of the methods, measurements, and results must be kept in the station records. However, stations installing modulating equipment solely for the limited local origination of signals permitted by §74.731 need not comply with the requirements of this paragraph. Section 74.765 is amended by removing paragraph (b) and redesignating paragraph (c) as paragraph (b), respectively. Section 74.769 is revised to read as follows: §74.769 Copies of rules. The licensee or permittee of a station authorized under this subpart shall have a current copy of Volume I and Volume III of