The Media Bureau has before it for comparative consideration 12 groups of mutually exclusive applications for new or modified noncommercial educational (“NCE”) FM station construction permits. By this Memorandum Opinion and Order (“Order”), the Bureau performs threshold analyses and identifies the tentative selectee in each group.Petitions to deny the application of any of these tentative selectees must be filed within 30 days of the date of release of this Order.
The groups addressed in this Order consist of applications that were filed or amended in October 2007, during the first filing window for NCE FM applications.These applicants have had an opportunity to settle among themselves and are now subject to a simplified, comparative process codified in Part 73, Subpart K, of the Commission’s Rules (the “Rules”).During the first step of this process the Bureau, acting pursuant to delegated authority, uses service area population data and certifications provided by the applicants to perform a threshold analysis.
MX Group numbers 39, 59, 66, 72, 111, 125, 126, 128, 144, 189, 191, 356. Petitions to deny must be filed within 30 days of the release of this MO&O.
6/21/08 The FCC has identified 148 additional NCE MX pools with up to 13 applicants each listed here. Applicants that were accidentally omitted (or incorrectly included) must report the errors to the FCC within 30 days.
The commission is getting ready to process the larger groups of applicants all competing for the same reserved band frequencies from the 2007 filing window.
As the FCC works its way through the more than 3,600 applications for NCE construction permits filed in 2007, it has now released another batch of applications in competition with other parties for reserved band channels so the parties have time to work out settlements. This batch consists of groups of 13 or fewer applicants, each seeking the same frequency.
To promote settlement discussions and ease workloads on applicants and their consulting engineers and attorneys, the Commission says it periodically will issue additional public notices identifying the remaining mutually exclusive groups. An applicant who believes that his or her paperwork has either been mistakenly included or excluded from any of the mutually exclusive groups should notify the Commission within 30 days.
The Media Bureau has before it for comparative consideration 12 groups of mutually exclusive applications for new or modified noncommercial educational
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