NOTICE ************************************************************************* NOTICE ************************************************************************* This notice was not available on the FCC's Internet Site. The copy below was manually copied from a printed FCC document distributed at the FCC's September 26th Digital Television Allotment Forum. This document is in text format and does not include any of the formatting such as underlining which appeared in the original document. While the text was checked for errors, some may remain. The link to this file will be replaced with a link to the file on the FCC's computer when and if it becomes available. ************************************************************************* Before the Federal Communications Commission Washington, D.C. 20554 In the Matter of ) 65076 ) Advanced Television Systems ) MM Docket No. 87-268 and Their Impact upon the ) Existing Television Broadcast ) Service. ) ERRATUM Released: September 12, 1996 By the Chief, Office of Engineering and Technology: 1. On August 14, 1996, the Commission released a "Sixth Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking" ("Further Notice"), MM Docket No. 87-268, FCC 96-317, proposing policies for developing the inital DTV allotments, procedures for assigning DTV frequencies and plans for spectrum recovery. This "Erratum" is issued to correct errors in the text and Appendix B of this "Further Notice". 2. The first sentence of paragraph 74 is replaced with the following text, to read as follows: "We are maintaining our proposal to avoid use of both channels 3 and 4 for DTV service in the same community wherever possible. In addition, we are modifying our proposal with regard to use of channel 6 to conform to our proposal to use the service replication approach in allotting and assigning DTV channels. Thus, we propose to make DTV allotments to channel 6 only where there is no other readily available allotment opportunity that would provide for adequate replication of an existing station's service area. 3. The first two sentences of paragraph 93 are replaced with the following text, to read as follows: "The draft Table generally avoids use of TV channels 3 and 4 in the same market. It also uses channel 6 only where there is no other readily available allotment possibility that would allow replication of an existing station's service area. With regard to land mobile sharing, all except one of the allotments contained in the draft DTV Table would comply with the proposed 155 mile co-channel spacing requirement between DTV allotments and land mobile operations. The draft Table also includes twelve cases where DTV allotments would be located at distances less than 110 miles from the city-center of an adjacent channel land mobile system." (The existing footnote 96, as corrected below, remains a footnote at the last sentence of this replacement text.) 4. Footnote 96 is corrected to read: "The DTV allotment on channel 16 in New Haven, CT, would be only 117 miles from the geographic reference point for co-channel land mobile operations on channel 16 in Boston, MA. The twelve cases where DTV allotments would be less than 110 miles from adjacent channel land mobile operations are: Channel 15, Corona, CA (land mobile channels 14 and 16 in Los Angeles, CA) Channel 15, San Francisco, CA (land mobile channel 16 in San Francisco, CA) Channel 15, Providence, RI (land mobile channels 14 and 16 in Boston, MA) Channel 16, New Haven, CT (land mobile channel 15 in New York, NY) Channel 16, Frederick, MD (land mobile channel 17 in Washington, DC) Channel 16, Kenosha, WI (land mobile channel 15 in Chicago, IL) Channel 17, Manchester, NH (land mobile channel 16 in Boston, MA) Channel 18, San Francisco, CA (land mobile channel 17 in San Francisco, CA) Channel 18, Secaucus, NJ (land mobile channel 19 in Philadelphia, PA) Channel 19, San Bernardino, CA (land mobile channel 20 in Los Angeles, CA) Channel 21, Los Angeles, CA (land mobile channel 20 in Los Angeles, CA) Channel 21, Vineland, NJ (land mobile channel 20 in Philadelphia, PA)" 5. In Appendix B, which contains a draft DTV Table of Allotments, a typographical error on page B-20 is corrected to indicate that DTV channel 31 would be provided for the existing NTSC station on channel 2 in Boston, MA. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION Richard M. Smith Chief, Office of Science and Technology -