NCE FM Filing Window Anticipated in 2020, Pai Tells Torres-Small
The FCC expects to open a new filing opportunity for full-power noncommercial educational FM stations later this year, Chairman Ajit Pai said in a letter posted Friday responding to an inquiry about a low-power FM window from Rep. Xochitl Torres-Small,…
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D-N.M. Torres-Small requested a filing time for LPFM, but Pai said full-power NCE stations will get to go first because that service hasn’t had one since 2010. The last LPFM window was in 2013. Timing of the new NCE one will be determined by when revamped processing rules take effect (see 1912110057), Pai said. “Once the applications from the NCE FM filing window are processed, the Bureau will be in a position to open a filing window for new LPFM applications,” he said. “Public Notices that announce filing windows are generally released well in advance.”