They were quite common in telecom, where the government ended up allowing companies that had won fixed-line licences to offer mobile services and, later, those that had won licences to offer mobile telephony on one technology platform to do so on the other dominant platform. In telecom, for instance, according to a policy put in place in November, the government allows companies to share and trade spectrum, as long as they pay the spectrum price determined at the most recent auction to it.
He cites other acquisitions of phase II licences involving other companies to make his point—only all those acquisitions had companies buying licences in cities where they did not have a first station, which was the only form of acquisition allowed under phase II rules. The operators are also unhappy that the government is keeping news out of the purview of FM channels.
Currently, they are only allowed to carry All India Radio news bulletins in exactly the same format. This clause has been persistently questioned as it goes against promoting plurality of views. Since most operators are backed by media firms, they can easily source their news in-house. Like television, private radio should also be liberalized and the standard rules of checks and balances as applicable to other news media should apply to FM radio as well, he said.
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Noncommercial educational applicants should also use FCC Form Commercial applicants must include the new station application filing fee listed in the Media Bureau Fee Filing Guide as well as FCC Form with the fee payment and application. Additional information about AM broadcast stations and applications is available at the Broadcast Radio Links page. FM commercial stations may be authorized on Noncommercial educational FM stations may also be authorized in this band but these applications must meet the spacing, 70 dBu city coverage and other technical criteria applicable to commercial stations.
FM commercial station rules include 47 CFR Requesting a New Allotment. The petition and application must cross-reference each other so that we can associate the two related filings. We will then consider the merits of the petition for rulemaking. If the petition for rulemaking is technically acceptable, the Media Bureau will release a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that will indicate the date by which interested parties can file comments or counterproposals.
If approved, an FM allotment will be created and placed in a future FM broadcast auction proceeding. If the applicant is the successful bidder for the allotment, the previously filed Form construction permit application will become the applicant's post-auction long-form construction permit application.
Once auction filing window dates are announced for allotments that were previously created, instructions for filing applications will be released on a Public Notice and posted on the Audio Division's website. We cannot provide advance information on when the next auction or application filing window might take place see the general information about auctions. Procedures and Deadlines.
Additional information about FM commercial stations and applications is available at the Broadcast Radio Links page. FM noncommercial commercial NCE stations may be authorized on No commercial operation is permitted on these frequencies. FM noncommercial educational stations may also be authorized in the commercial FM band under the technical rules applying to that service see the preceding section.
Contour protection is used in the reserved band to determine if interference will exist to other stations see 47 CFR Section FM noncommercial educational station rules include 47 CFR Allocation is made via an on-demand system, with applicants receiving construction permits for facilities that will not cause interference to other stations.
Interference calculations are made using specified signal strength contours. The protected service contour of a station think of a rough circle at some distance from the transmitter site for one station generally cannot overlap an interfering contour from another station. See rule section 47 CFR Section Applicants must also protect pending applications that were filed before the announcement of the application filing window.
Future filing window announcements will be made via Public Notice and posted at several locations on the Commission's website. Construction Costs. The FCC does not collect data concerning the costs of construction and equipment for noncommercial educational FM stations.
Costs can vary enormously depending on how the station is constructed. Applicants and potential applicants should not purchase equipment before receiving a construction permit from the FCC, because they may not be able to use or resell it if the application is not approved.
Form to Use. FCC Form for noncommercial educational stations must be used to apply for this type of FM station. Applicants for noncommercial educational stations pay no application filing fee.
Applications for new noncommercial educational stations must be electronically filed only during the announced application filing window period.
No paper filings will be accepted. Additional information about FM noncommercial educational broadcast stations and applications is available at the Broadcast Radio Links page.
The FCC does not collect data concerning the costs of construction and equipment for low power FM stations. Forms to Use.
Applications received at other times will be returned without consideration. We cannot provide advance information as to when the next application filing window period may be, but when that information is announced, it will be in the form of a Public Notice and posted at several places on the FCC's website. Noncommercial educational FM translators may be authorized on any frequency, while FM translators rebroadcasting commercial stations must stay on frequencies from Translator stations are prohibited from transmitting any programming not also transmitted on the originating or primary station at the same time.
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