Technologie i telekomunikacja · 16/03/2004

Radio Broadcasting Services; Cordele, Dawson, and Pinehurst, GA

This document requests comments on a petition for rule making filed by West Com Corp., permittee of Station WMRZ(FM) ("WMRZ"), Dawson, Georgia, and Metro Com Corp., licensee of Station WQXZ(FM) ("WQXZ"), Cordele, Georgia. The petition proposes to upgrade Channel 251A, Station WMRZ, to Channel 251C3 and to reallot Channel 252A, Station WQXZ, from Cordele to Pinehurst, Georgia. The reallotment of Channel 252A to Pinehurst will provide Pinehurst with its first local aural transmission service. The coordinates for requested Channel 251C3 at Dawson, Georgia, are 31-37-25 NL and 84-19-49 WL, with a site restriction of 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) southeast of Dawson. The coordinates for requested Channel 252A at Pinehurst, Georgia, are 32- 10-03 NL and 83-37-51 WL, with a site restriction of 12.9 kilometers (8.0 miles) east of Pinehurst. Petitioners' proposal complies with the provisions of Sec. Sec. 1.420(g)(3) and (i) of the Commission's rules, and therefore, the Commission will not accept competing expressions of interest in the use of Channel 251C3 at Dawson, Georgia, or Channel 252A at Pinehurst, Georgia, or require the licensees to demonstrate the availability of additional equivalen