Station Resource Group

Long march to opportunity

• SRG worked for years to create a framework for licensing new spectrum– Point system for resolving MX situations– Settlement policies for voluntary

resolution– Full facility application window ahead of

other spectrum proceedings (LPFM upgrades, etc.)

– Sufficient advance notice to the field– Proposed limit on applications

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Play defense and offense

Understand the point system

• Just being good doesn’t count

• Significant first service, you win

• These are “no mercy” rules

• Sometimes your best option may be to work with others

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Play defense and offense

• Get minor changes done yesterday

• Protect your translators

• Monitor applications as they are filed

Station Resource Group

Play defense and offense

Use resources in the field• Public Radio Capital frequency studies

– 169 markets– Short list of top picks

• NPR Labs translator studies– Public radio translators by population– Will be on nprstations.org– Non-public radio noncommercial translator

list

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First Tier (75% - 100% coverage)

• Lancaster PA• Flint MI• Canton OH• Stockton CA• Saginaw-Bay City-Midland MI• Biloxi-Gulfport-Pascagoula MS• Reading PA• Appleton- Oshkosh WI• Albuquerque NM• Las Vegas NV

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Second Tier (50-74% coverage)

• Victor Valley, CA• Buffalo-Niagara Falls NY• Huntsville AL• Portsmouth-Dover-Rochester NY• York PA• Syracuse NY• Baton Rouge LA• Wilmington DE• Youngstown-Warren OH• Trenton NJ

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Third Tier (< 50% coverage, >500,000 people)

• Phoenix AZ

• Milwaukee-Racine WI

• Minneapolis-St Paul MN

• Hartford-New Britain-Middleton CT

• Cincinnati OH

• Richmond VA

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Next steps for SRG

Protect the process

• Pending request for limit on number of applications

• Push for annual filing window

• Ask for extended settlement window