DTV Station Status per FCC CDBS - November 20, 2003
LICENSED (LIC): 478 (+5)
CONSTRUCTION PERMIT:(CP) 895 (-6)
CP Modification (CP MOD)317 (+3)
STA (All variations)906 (+3)
STA (Modifications) 65 (+1)
APPLICATIONS (minus rulemaking) 225 (-0-)
Rule making - Digital channel changes
PENDING APPLICATIONS 43 (-2)
GRANTS128 (+2)
DISMISSED 1 (-0-)
(Change from Nov. 9, 2003 listing)
Note: The total will be greater than the number of DTV stations as some stations have both licenses, construction permits and applications on file. 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 dated Nov. 20, 2003 is available from www.xmtr.com/fcc/dt031120.zip. This file is available now. The entire TV engineering database (large file - over 2MB) extracted from the CDBS is available from www.xmtr.com/fcc/tv031120.zip.
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