47 U.S.C. § 331 : US Code - Section 331: Very high frequency stations and AM radio stations

Search 47 U.S.C. § 331 : US Code - Section 331: Very high frequency stations and AM radio stations

(a) Very high frequency stations
It shall be the policy of the Federal Communications Commission
to allocate channels for very high frequency commercial television
broadcasting in a manner which ensures that not less than one such
channel shall be allocated to each State, if technically feasible.
In any case in which licensee of a very high frequency commercial
television broadcast station notifies the Commission to the effect
that such licensee will agree to the reallocation of its channel to
a community within a State in which there is allocated no very high
frequency commercial television broadcast channel at the time (!1)
such notification, the Commission shall, notwithstanding any other
provision of law, order such reallocation and issue a license to
such licensee for that purpose pursuant to such notification for a
term of not to exceed 5 years as provided in section 307(d) (!2) of
this title.
(b) AM radio stations
It shall be the policy of the Commission, in any case in which
the licensee of an existing AM daytime-only station located in a
community with a population of more than 100,000 persons that lacks
a local full-time aural station licensed to that community and that
is located within a Class I station primary service area notifies
the Commission that such licensee seeks to provide full-time
service, to ensure that such a licensee is able to place a
principal community contour signal over its entire community of
license 24 hours a day, if technically feasible. The Commission
shall report to the appropriate committees of Congress within 30
days after December 20, 1991, on how it intends to meet this policy
goal.