[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 186 (Thursday, September 25, 2014)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 57493-57494]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-22871]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 73

[MB Docket No. 14-159, RM-11735; DA 14-1344]


Television Broadcasting Services; Dayton, Ohio

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Commission has before it a petition for rulemaking filed 
by WKEF Licensee L.P. (``WKEF Licensee''), the licensee of station 
WKEF(TV), channel 51, Dayton, Ohio, requesting the substitution of 
channel 18 for channel 51 at Dayton. While the Commission instituted a 
freeze on the acceptance of full power television rulemaking petitions 
requesting channel substitutions in May 2011, it subsequently announced 
that it would lift the freeze to accept such petitions for rulemaking 
seeking to relocate from channel 51 pursuant to a voluntary relocation 
agreement with Lower 700 MHz A Block licensees. WKEF Licensee has 
entered into such a voluntary relocation agreement with T-Mobile, Inc. 
and states that operation on channel 18 would eliminate potential 
interference to and from wireless operations in the adjacent Lower 700 
MHZ A Block.

DATES: Comments must be filed on or before October 27, 2014, and reply 
comments on or before November 10, 2014.

ADDRESSES: Federal Communications Commission, Office of the Secretary, 
445 12th Street SW., Washington, DC 20554. In addition to filing 
comments with the FCC, interested parties should serve counsel for 
petitioner as follows: Clifford M. Harrington, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop 
Shaw Pittman, LLP, 2300 N Street NW., Washington, DC 20037-1128.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joyce Bernstein, 
[email protected], Media Bureau, (202) 418-1600.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a synopsis of the Commission's 
Notice of Proposed Rule Making, MB Docket No. 14-159, adopted September 
18, 2014, and released September 18, 2014. The full text of this 
document is available for public inspection and copying during normal 
business hours in the FCC's Reference Information Center at Portals II, 
CY-A257, 445 12th Street SW., Washington, DC 20554. This document will 
also be available via ECFS (http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/). (Documents 
will be available electronically in ASCII, Word 97, and/or Adobe 
Acrobat.) This document may be purchased from the Commission's 
duplicating contractor, Best Copy and Printing, Inc., 445 12th Street 
SW., Room CY-B402, Washington, DC 20554, telephone 1-800-478-3160 or 
via email www.BCPIWEB.com. To request this document in accessible 
formats (computer diskettes, large print, audio recording, and 
Braille), send an email to [email protected] or call the Commission's 
Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 (voice), 
(202) 418-0432 (TTY). This document does not contain proposed 
information collection requirements subject to the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. In addition, therefore, it does not 
contain any proposed information collection burden ``for small business 
concerns with fewer than 25 employees,'' pursuant to the Small Business 
Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, Public Law 107-198, see 44 U.S.C. 
3506(c)(4).
    Provisions of the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 do not apply 
to this proceeding. Members of the public should note that from the 
time a Notice of Proposed Rule Making is issued until the matter is no 
longer subject to Commission consideration or court review, all ex 
parte contacts (other than ex parte presentations exempt under 47 CFR 
1.1204(a)) are prohibited in Commission proceedings, such as this one, 
which involve channel allotments. See 47 CFR 1.1208 for rules governing 
restricted proceedings.
    For information regarding proper filing procedures for comments, 
see 47 CFR 1.415 and 1.420.

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 73

    Television.

Federal Communications Commission.
Barbara A. Kreisman,
Chief, Video Division, Media Bureau.

Proposed Rules

    For the reasons discussed in the preamble, the Federal 
Communications Commission proposes to amend 47 CFR part 73 as follows:

PART 73--RADIO BROADCAST SERVICES

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1. The authority citation for part 73 continues to read as follows:

    Authority:  47 U.S.C. 154, 303, 334, 336, and 339.


Sec.  73.622  [Amended]

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2. Section 73.622(i), the Post-Transition Table of DTV Allotments under 
Ohio is amended by adding channel 18 and removing channel 51 at Dayton.

[FR Doc. 2014-22871 Filed 9-24-14; 8:45 am]
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