Technologie i telekomunikacja · 13.12.1996

Radio Broadcasting Services; Lockport, New York

The Commission requests comments on a petition filed by Culver Communications Corp. seeking the allotment of Channel 221A to Lockport, NY, as the community's first local FM service. Channel 221A can be allotted to Lockport in compliance with the Commission's minimum distance separation requirements, with request to domestic allotments, without the imposition of a site restriction, at coordinates 43-10-12 North Latitude and 78-41-54 West Longitude. However, Lockport is located within 320 kilometers (200 miles) of the U.S.-Canadian border, and the allotment would result in short-spacings to Station CKPC-FM, Channel 221C1, Brantford, Ontario, Channels 219C1, St. Catherine, Ontario, 220B, Peterboro, Ontario, 222B, Oshawa, Ontario, and 223B, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Petitioner states that appropriate protection of all of the above channels, with the exception of Station CKPC-FM, can be accomplished with the proposed Lockport station operating nondirectionally with 6 kilowatts of power at 100 meters above average terrain. With regard to the short-spacing to Station CKPC-FM, petitioner states that it will directionalize its signal to avoid any prohibited interference. Therefore, we will