The Media Bureau seeks comment on the Petition for Rulemaking submitted by Commander Communications Corporation requesting the Commission create a new FM station class “A10.”
Commander President Carl Haynes proposes specific operating parameters for the new Class A10 stations of a maximum of 10,000 watts effective radiated power and 100 meters height above average terrain. He also suggests amendments to minimum distance separation requirements for existing facilities to accommodate a new FM station class. This proposal is intended to supersede an earlier proposal for a new “Class C4” category of FM station.
The Jackson, MS-based Haynes says the changes “would serve the public interest and benefit thousands of listeners with reliable signals to keep the public informed in times of severe weather and natural disasters.” They would “enable many existing FM broadcast facilities to significantly improve their service areas without impacting the actual service areas of other co-channel and adjacent channel stations,” he says in the petition.
Comments to Docket No. 24-183 are due July 22. Reply Comments are due August 21.
By Leslie Stimson, Inside Towers Washington Bureau Chief
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