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arizona weaver i.e.can I located my studio outside the25mile,other tv radiocont

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ellenparks

Does anybody know if the commission willl issue a waver to operate the main studio outside the 25 mile distance from the city of license as well as outside of the primary contours of any radio or TV station licensed to the same market? Or, is this impossible now,,talkin noncom here
 
Maybe. IF your proposed site is between the FCC 50-50 predicted 60 and 70 dBu contours, AND you can use Longley-Rice or some other 'alternate' predictive methodology to demonstarte that the proposed Main Studio recieves a 70 dBu or greater signal, AND you jump through a few other not-too-onerous hoops, you can get a waiver. NOT an Arizona Waiver, by the way... Be VERY certain that you ask the FCC for permission, (which will require a formal technical filing), before moving or you'll be looking at lots of billable hours when they catch you. You should retain Legal and/or Technical counsel to make sure you get it right...
 
Arizona Waivers were not a non com item back in the day. A station in Indiana had an Arizona Waiver and it didn't get the studio more than 30 miles from the COL and they had to maintain a studio in the city also.

Non com Rules allow the Main studio to be co-located outside the C.O.L. if the station is a satellite of, or, relays all of the main station's programming, anywhere almost. Find a station in the area you want to place a studio and buy it. Then inform the FCC the new station is the main studio for the other station, 2 states away. By inform them, I mean, request a waiver. Look at a K Love filing to see how the process works. We have stations in Indiana whose main studio is or was in California.

Try first to see if you can use another station in the Licensed City whose signal goes miles and miles. I have seen a non COL use by a television station in the same market. One DTV recently provided a city grade that goes 75 miles. In this case the station was licensed to the same town.

Why are you wanting to move outside an area where the station can be heard?? If the reason is financial, make a clear case for this. You never know.
 
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