DTV Station Status per FCC CDBS - September 12, 2004
LICENSED (LIC): 608 (-0-)
CONSTRUCTION PERMIT:(CP) 782 (-5)
CP Modification (CP MOD) 354 (+3)
STA (All variations) 1011 (-2)
STA (Modifications) 100 (-0-)
APPLICATIONS (minus rulemaking) 188 (-11)
Rule making - Digital channel changes
PENDING APPLICATIONS 30 (-4)
GRANTS 143 (+4)
DISMISSED 2 (-0-)
(Change from August 29, 2004 listing)
Note: The total will be greater than the number of DTV stations, since some stations have licenses, construction permits and applications on file. Subtracting the STA Modification number from the number in STA (all variations) gives 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 September 12, 2004. The entire TV engineering database (large file - over 2MB) extracted from the CDBS is available from www.xmtr.com/fcc/tvdb.zip.
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