DTV Station Status per FCC CDBS - Oct. 23, 2005:
LICENSED (LIC): 814 (+20)
CONSTRUCTION PERMIT:(CP) 608 (-13)
CP Modification (CP MOD) 372 (-8)
STA (All variations)1075 (-0-)
STA (Modifications) 167 (-0-)
APPLICATIONS (full power, minus rule
making and channel/service elections) 128 (-5)
APPLICATIONS (DTV on channel for
LPTV, Class A, and TV translator) New! 5
Rule making - Digital channel changes
PENDING APPLICATIONS 22 (-0-)
GRANTS 153 (-0-)
(Change from Oct. 9, 2005 listing)
Note: 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 Oct. 23, 2005. The entire TV engineering database (large file - over 2MB) extracted from the CDBS is available from www.xmtr.com/fcc/tvdb.zip.
