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FCC 1.1622
Revised as of October 1, 2011
Goto Year:2010 |
2012
§ 1.1622 Preferences.
(a) Any applicant desiring a perference in the random selection shall
so indicate as part of its application. Such an applicant shall list
any owner who owns all or part of a medium of mass communications or
who is a member of a minority group, together with a precise
identification of the ownership interest held in such medium of mass
communications or name of the minority group, respectively. Such an
applicant shall also state whether more than 50% of the ownership
interests in it are held by members of minority groups and the number
of media of mass communications more than 50% of whose ownership
interests are held by the applicant and/or its owners.
(b) Preference factors as incorporated in the percentage calculations
in § 1.1623, shall be granted as follows:
(1) Applicants, more than 50% of whose ownership interests are held by
members of minority groups--2:1.
(2) Applicants whose owners in the aggregate hold more than 50% of the
ownership interests in no other media of mass communications--2:1.
(3) Applicants whose owners in the aggregate hold more than 50% of the
ownership interest in one, two or three other media of mass
communications--1.5:1.
(c) Applicants may receive preferences pursuant to § 1.1622(b)(1) and
either § 1.1622 (b)(2) or (b)(3).
(d) Preferences will be determined on the basis of ownership interests
as of the date of release of the latest Public Notice announcing the
acceptance of the last-filed mutually exclusive application.
(e) No preferences pursuant to § 1.1622 (b)(2) or (b)(3) shall be
granted to any LPTV or MDS applicant whose owners, when aggregated,
have an ownership interest of more than 50 percent in the following
media of mass communications, if the service areas of those media as
described herein wholly encompass or are encompassed by the protected
predicted contour, computed in accordance with § 74.707(a), of the low
power TV or TV translator station for which the license or permit is
sought, or computed in accordance with § 21.902(d), of the MDS station
for which the license or permit is sought.
(1) AM broadcast station--predicted or measured 2 mV/m groundwave
contour, computed in accordance with § 73.183 or § 73.186;
(2) FM broadcast station--predicted 1 mV/m contour, computed in
accordance with § 73.313;
(3) TV broadcast station--Grade A contour, computed in accordance with
§ 73.684;
(4) Low power TV or TV translator station--protected predicted contour,
computed in accordance with § 74.707(a);
(5) Cable television system franchise area, nor will the diversity
preference be available to applicants whose proposed transmitter site
is located within the franchise area of a cable system in which its
owners, in the aggregate, have an ownership interest of more than 50
percent.
(6) Daily newspaper community of publication, nor will the diversity
preference be available to applicants whose proposed transmitter site
is located within the community of publication of a daily newspaper in
which its owners, in the aggregate, have an ownership interest of more
than 50 percent.
(7) Multipoint Distribution Service--station service area, computed in
accordance with § 21.902(d).
[ 48 FR 27202 , June 13, 1983, as amended at 50 FR 5992 , Feb. 13, 1985;
50 FR 11161 , Mar. 20, 1985]
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