Does anybody know exactly if licensed LPFM stations will be treated by the FCC as primary stations, able to ward off a full-service stations' facilities change or other modification in cases of encroachment?
I am reading several FCC documents that currently indicate that the LPFM is to be protected and put in Primary position, able to ward off encroachments if that LPFM station is a co-channel or 1st adjacency from an application to modify a more powerful station closer to that LPFM.
This new policy was recently upheld in an appellate court decision, NAB vs. FCC.
I am also reading that the LPFM station can indeed encroach on the existing full service station as long as the LPFM's 40 dbu interfering contour does not touch the larger stations' 70 dbu city grade signal (on a co-channel, 54 dbu for a 1st adjacency).
Is this correct?
I am reading several FCC documents that currently indicate that the LPFM is to be protected and put in Primary position, able to ward off encroachments if that LPFM station is a co-channel or 1st adjacency from an application to modify a more powerful station closer to that LPFM.
This new policy was recently upheld in an appellate court decision, NAB vs. FCC.
I am also reading that the LPFM station can indeed encroach on the existing full service station as long as the LPFM's 40 dbu interfering contour does not touch the larger stations' 70 dbu city grade signal (on a co-channel, 54 dbu for a 1st adjacency).
Is this correct?