Technologie i telekomunikacja · 13.03.2003

Radio Broadcasting Services; Dickson and Pegram, TN

This document sets forth a proposal to amend the FM Table of Allotments, Section 73.202(b) of the Commission's rules, 47 CFR 73.202(b). The Audio Division requests comment on a petition filed by Montgomery Broadcasting Company pursuant to section 1.420(i) of the Commission's rules, 47 CFR 1.420(i). Petitioner proposes to change the community of license for Station WQZQ-FM from Dickson to Pegram, Tennessee, and to change the FM Table of Allotments by deleting Channel 273C1 at Dickson, Tennessee, and by adding Channel 273C1 at Pegram, Tennessee, as the community's first local aural broadcast service. The proposed coordinates for Channel 273C1 at Pegram, Tennessee, are 36-17- 50 NL and 87-19-31 WL. The allotment will require a site restriction of 32.9 km (20.5 miles) northwest of Pegram. The change of community from Dickson to Pegram would result in a net loss of 13,341 persons. There would be neither net gain nor loss in the land area served, because the loss and gain area each covers 260 square kilometers. Both the loss area of Channel 273C1 at Dickson and the gain area of Channel 273C1 at Pegram are completely covered by at least five other full-time services, and thus, all areas p