Channel 51 Petition for Rulemaking Filed

As discussed on yesterday’s Washington Reps call, Southern Media Holdings, INC. has requested to operate a TV broadcast station in Channel 51, immediately adjacent to the 700 MHz Lower A Block.  Comments relating to this proceeding are due on May 4, 2011, and Reply Comments are due May 19, 2011.

From yesterday’s Federal Register –

 Docket: [MB Docket No. 11–54, RM–11624; DA 11– 499]

RE: Petition for rulemaking filed by Southern Media Holdings, Inc. (“SMH”), the licensee of station WFXG, Augusta, Georgia, requesting the substitution of channel 51 for channel 31 at Augusta. SMH seeks this channel substitution as it cannot obtain the credit necessary to construct the channel 31 facility and states that the money required to construct the channel 31 facility will instead be used to serve other aspects of the public interest.

Materials: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-04-04/pdf/2011-7787.pdf

 The Petition for Rulemaking at the FCC is available at http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view.action?id=7021033240.