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Please stop here and read the following
information before proceeding into our LPFM section...
As we are all aware, the first five (shortened to
four) filing windows for LP-100 class stations have come and gone.
If you've managed to successfully file an
application during the first set of filing windows, only you can determine who
you are and what your current standings are in the game.
Here are the facts, as we understand them at this
time:
1. In most cases, it is a good idea to make early
contact with other applicants who are mutually exclusive ("MX") to
you, and with whom you are tied for the most points of all the MX applicants.
Many of you already have done this, and have agreed in principal to share time.
2. There is no formal action that can, or needs to be
taken right now, unless you have errors in your application that need to be
corrected. During the next several months, the FCC will issue lists of tied
applicants for your filing window. They also will announce a deadline by which
tied MX applicants can submit plans to voluntarily share the frequency
(normally, 30 days after the Public Notice of the above). There is nothing that
requires that you "must take action now".
3. If you cannot stomach sharing time with your tied competitors,
and all of your tied competitors feel the same way and do not agree to share
time with any others, under most circumstances you all will be issued
non-renewable consecutive licenses of 1 to 4 years each, adding up to eight
years total. In other words, if you do absolutely nothing, you still might be
issued an FCC Construction Permit. We definitely don't recommend this, however. Remember, the
Rules say that these are non-renewable licenses.
Now, all of this being said, you're ready to step
forward into our LPFM section. Please note that it's a bit "behind the
times" but, quite honestly, there's not a lot of new information to add to
it and no one knows what's about to happen so, we're updating it as information
becomes available...
To
proceed into the LPFM section of the site, click here.
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