DTV Station Status per FCC CDBS - May 23, 2004

LICENSED (LIC): 524 (+1)
CONSTRUCTION PERMIT:(CP) 847 (-3)
CP Modification (CP MOD)357 (+9)
STA (All variations)989 (+6)
STA (Modifications) 93 (+2)
APPLICATIONS (minus rulemaking) 194 (-7)

Rule making - Digital channel changes
PENDING APPLICATIONS 36 (-3)
GRANTS 136 (+2)
DISMISSED 2 (+1)

(Change from May 9, 2004 listing)

Note: The total will be greater than the number of DTV stations as some stations have licenses, construction permits and applications on file. Subtracting the STA Modifications 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 dated May 23, 2004, may be downloaded from www.xmtr.com/fcc/dt040523.zip. The entire TV engineering database (large file - over 2MB) extracted from the CDBS is available from www.xmtr.com/fcc/tv040523.zip. These files are available now.