§  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 § 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]