DTV Station Status per FCC CDBS - March 20, 2006:
LICENSED (LIC): 878 (+9)
CONSTRUCTION PERMIT (CP): 567 (-3)
CP Modification (CP MOD): 357 (-2)
STA (All variations):1083 (+2)
STA (Modifications): 174 (+2)
APPLICATIONS (minus rule making and channel/service elections): 147 (-1)
Rule making - Digital channel changes
PENDING APPLICATIONS: 20 (-0-)
GRANTS: 155 (-0-)
(Change from March 5, 2006 listing)
Note: These totals do not include digital class A TV, low power TV or TV translator entries. 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 March 20, 2006. The entire TV engineering database (this is a large file -- over 2MB) extracted from the CDBS is available from www.xmtr.com/fcc/tvdb.zip.
