PUBLIC NOTICE
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION News Media Information: 202-418-0500
445 12th STREET, S.W. Internet: http://www.fcc.gov
WASHINGTON,
D.C. 20554 TTY: 1-888-835-5322
DA 07-1613
April 4, 2007
Media Bureau Announces NCE FM New Station and Major
Modification Application Filing Window for New and Certain Pending Proposals;
Window to Open on October 12, 2007
The Media Bureau (the “Bureau”)
announces a filing window for applications for noncommercial educational
(“NCE”) FM new station and major modification construction permits. The Commission recently directed the Bureau
to open this NCE FM filing window in October 2007 in connection with the
Commission’s tentative selectee determinations for 76 groups of cut-off and
mutually exclusive NCE FM new station and major modification proposals.[1] The filing window will open on Friday,
October 12, 2007, and close on Friday, October 19, 2007. The window is available for FM reserved band
(channels 201 – 220) proposals.
New applications must be filed
electronically on Form 340.
Approximately 180 reserved band NCE FM new or major proposals for which
the Commission has not provided an opportunity to file competing applications
are currently pending before the Bureau. These non-cut-off applications were
paper-filed prior to a filing freeze imposed by the Commission in April
2000. In order to participate in the
October 2007 window, applicants must electronically amend these pending
applications by completing Sections III (Fair Distribution of Service), IV
(Point System Factors), V (Tie Breakers) and VI (Certification) of Form
340. The Bureau will dismiss any
pending non-cut-off NCE new station or major change application that is not
amended by the close of the window to include the required information.
The Bureau will provide additional information about filing procedures
and requirements by public during the next several months. Interested applicants also may monitor the
Audio Division Web Page for information and developments: http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/.
For additional information, please contact Clyde Ensslin, (202)
418-0506 (News Media) or Peter H. Doyle, (202) 418-2700 (Audio Division).
By: Chief, Media Bureau
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