Media Bureau Opens Filing Window for FM Translator Construction Permits

The FCC Media Bureau opened a window for filing for FM translator new station construction permit applications, it said in a public notice Tuesday. Applicants have to file Form 349 applications, an application filing fee and Form 159 through the bureau's Consolidated Database System by May 21. The window is limited to Auction 83 tech box proposals, which the bureau identified as no longer being mutually exclusive with other tech box proposals that remain pending from the Auction 83 filing window, it said. The applications are exempt from the commission's auction procedures, the bureau said.