Radio Broadcasting Services; West Hurley and Rosendale, NY, North Canaan and Sharon, CT

Résumé

The Commission requests comments on two mutually exclusive petitions for rule making. Raymond A. Natole requests the allotment of Channel 255A to West Hurley, NY, as the community's first local aural transmission service. Sacred Heart University, Inc., requests the allotment of Channel *277A to North Canaan, CT, and its reservation for noncommercial educational use, as the community's first local aural transmission service. To accommodate the North Canaan allotment, SHU also requests the substitution of Channel 273A for Channel 277A at Sharon, CT, the modification of Station WQQQ's license to specify the alternate channel, and the substitution of Channel 255A for unoccupied but applied-for Channel 273A at Rosendale, NY. Channel 255A can be allotted to West Hurley without the imposition of a site restriction, at coordinates 42-00-06 North Latitude and 74-06-00 West Longitude. Channel *277A can be allotted to North Canaan with a site restriction of 2.8 kilometers (1.7 miles) northwest, at coordinates 42-03-21; 73- 20-56, to avoid a short-spacing to Stations WDRC-FM, Channel 275B, Hartford, CT, WHRL, Channel 276A, Albany, NY, and WODS, Channel 277B, Boston, MA. Channel 255A can be all