The FCC will vote next month to hold its first filing window for translators in the reserved non-commercial portion of the FM band (88.1 to 91.9).
If approved by the commission, a comment period for rules will follow as the FCC seeks to include a limit of 10 applications per licensee as “an effective procedural safeguard and helped restrict the number of MX applications, prevented mass filings, and allowed the Commission to efficiently process and grant thousands of new NCE FM applications.” It would also seek comment “on whether the proposed application caps and primary station eligibility restriction are appropriate limits to enable the efficient processing of applications and initiation of new NCE reserved band FM translator service, whether different eligibility restrictions or application caps would be more appropriate, or whether the Commission should establish no limit or restrictions at all.”
The proposed public notice can be read here:
