DTV Station Status per FCC CDBS -- Feb. 21, 2006:
LICENSED (LIC): 867 (+6)
CONSTRUCTION PERMIT (CP): 571 (-7)
CP Modification (CP MOD): 360 (-0-)
STA (All variations):1081 (+1)
STA (Modifications): 172 (-0-)
APPLICATIONS (minus rule making and channel/service elections): 142 (-71)
Rule making - Digital channel changes
PENDING APPLICATIONS: 21 (-0-)
GRANTS: 154 (-0-)
(Change from Feb. 4, 2006 listing)
In the Feb. 4 status report, there was a large increase in applications (75 additional) due to the FCC's adding engineering data for negotiated channel changes to the database as applications. In this week's spreadsheet, it looks as if many of those applications were reclassified, resulting in a drop in applications -- 71 fewer.
Note: These totals do not include digital class A TV, low power TV or TV translator station. The total will be greater than the number of DTV stations as some stations have licenses, construction permits and applications on file. Some stations also have license, construction permits or applications for backup facilities (auxiliary broadcast). Subtracting the STA Modification number from the number in STA (All variations) will give a more accurate indication of the number of DTV stations operating under STA.
A spreadsheet showing all current DTV entries in the FCC CDBS TV engineering database files may be downloaded from www.xmtr.com/fcc/dtvdb.zip. All CDBS database files used for the spreadsheets carry a date of Feb. 21, 2006. The entire TV engineering database (large file - over 2MB) extracted from the CDBS is available now from www.xmtr.com/fcc/tvdb.zip.
