Puerto Rico Licensee Wants 'Unitary' License for Experimental Array
The FCC Media Bureau had sought comment in 2002 on a request from a Puerto Rico TV licensee to operate a “multi-site transmission facility” under a “unitary license” as a “collective primary station,” said a public notice included Wednesday in…
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a new filing in docket 13-249. The FCC in 1986 allowed Siete Grande Television’s station WSTE-TV Ponce to construct an experimental system of “multiple cochannel transmitters” that simultaneously broadcast as an attempt to provide better service in “Puerto Rico’s mountainous terrain,” the PN said. The proposed unitary license would allow Siete Grande to operate the auxiliary and booster stations under one collective license instead of separate ones. The license would “eliminate the need for the licensee to maintain a separate main transmitter facility in Ponce, which currently must remain turned off to avoid interference with the array,” and make the secondary booster stations in the array primary status, the PN said.