§ 74.632   Licensing requirements.

   (a) Licenses for television pickup, television STL, television microwave
   booster, or television relay stations will be issued only to licensees of
   television broadcast stations, and broadcast network-entities and, further,
   on a secondary basis, to licensees of low power television stations. A
   separate application is required for each fixed station and the application
   shall be specific with regard to the frequency requested. A mobile station
   license may be issued for any number of mobile transmitters to operate in a
   specific area or frequency band and the applicant shall be specific with
   regard to the frequencies requested.

   (b) A license for a TV relay station may be issued in any case where the
   circuit  will operate between TV broadcast stations either by means of
   “off-the-air” pickup and relay or location of the initial relay station at
   the studio or transmitter of a TV broadcast station.

   (c)  An application for a new TV pickup station shall designate the TV
   broadcast station with which it is to be operated and specify the area in
   which the proposed operation is intended. The maximum permissible area of
   operation will generally be that of a standard metropolitan area, unless a
   special showing is made that a larger area is necessary.

   (d)  Licensees  who  have two or more TV broadcast stations located in
   different cities shall, in applying for a new TV pickup station, designate
   the TV broadcast station in conjunction with which it is to be operated
   principally. Operation in a city which is not the city of license of the
   associated TV broadcast station is on a secondary, non-interference basis to
   home-city users.

   (e) A license for a TV translator relay station will be issued only to
   licensees of low power TV and TV translator stations. However, a television
   translator relay station license may be issued to a cooperative enterprise
   wholly owned by licensees of television broadcast translators or licensees
   of television broadcast translators and cable television owners or operators
   upon a showing that the applicant is qualified under the Communication Act
   of 1934, as amended.

   (f)  Licensees of TV pickup, TV STL, TV relay, and TV translator relay
   stations may be authorized to operate one or more TV microwave booster
   stations for the purpose of relaying signals over a path that cannot be
   covered with a single station.

   (g) In case of permanent discontinuance of operations of a station licensed
   under this subpart, the licensee shall cancel the station license using FCC
   Form 601. For purposes of this section, a station which is not operated for
   a period of one year is considered to have been permanently discontinued.

   [ 28 FR 13718 , Dec. 14, 1963, as amended at  44 FR 32382 , June 6, 1979;  47 FR 55937 , Dec. 14, 1982;  48 FR 9012 , Mar. 3, 1983;  48 FR 17092 , Apr. 21, 1983;
    48 FR 21486 , May 12, 1983;  49 FR 7130 , Feb. 27, 1984;  49 FR 10930 , Mar. 23,
   1984;  52 FR 7142 , Mar. 9, 1987;  58 FR 19775 , Apr. 16, 1993;  63 FR 36605 ,
   July 7, 1998;  68 FR 12769 , Mar. 17, 2003]

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