Technologie i telekomunikacja · 3.05.2000

Radio Broadcasting Services; St. Johnsbury and Barton, VT

The Commission, at the request of Vermont Broadcast Associates, Inc., allots Channel 262A to Barton, VT, as the community's first local aural service and denies the request of Dana Puopolo to allot Channel 262A to St. Johnsbury, VT, as the community's second local FM and third local aural service. See 64 FR 5624, February 4, 1999. Channel 262A can be allotted to Barton in compliance with the Commission's minimum distance separation requirements, with respect to domestic allotments, without the imposition of a site restriction, at coordinates 44-44-54 North Latitude and 72-10-36 West Longitude. Barton is located within 320 kilometers (200 miles) of the U.S.-Canadian border and use of these coordinates does not negate the short-spacings to the proposed allotment of Channel 262A at Sherbrook, Quebec, and the vacant and proposed to be deleted Channel 262A at Magog, Quebec, Canada. Canadian concurrence in the allotment of Channel 262A at Barton, as a specially-negotiated short-spaced allotment, has been requested but has not yet been received. However, rather than delay any further the opportunity to file applications for this channel, we will allot Channel 262A to Barton at this time.