_________________________________________________ FCC ANNOUNCES AM EXPANDED BAND ALLOTMENTS _________________________________________________ In its Review of the Technical Assignment Criteria for the AM Broadcast Service, 6 FCC Rcd 6273 (1991), recon. granted in part and denied in part, 8 FCC Rcd 3250 (1993)["AM improvement Order"], the Commission adopted measures to facilitate an overall improvement and revitalization of the AM broadcast band and to effectuate the necessary incorporation of new spectrum between 1605 and 1705 kHz into the AM broadcast band. The Commission concluded that the public interest would be best served by using the expanded AM band to improve the overall quality of the AM service by lessening interference and congestion in the existing band. On May 3, 1993, the Commission opened a filing window for existing AM stations to file petitions to migrate to the expanded band. On December 3, 1993, the Commission announced a ranking of all petitions to migrate in accordance with the priority groups and improvement factors described in the AM Improvement Order. This Public Notice announces the expanded band Allotment Plan, and identifies the stations that are eligible to apply for authorizations associated with specific allotments, based upon the previously announced ranking of the petitions. Stations not receiving an allotment were precluded by one or more of the following: the Canadian agreement, the Mexican agreement, the Region 2 agreement, Federal Travelers' Information Service Stations ("TIS"), harmonic frequency relationships with existing stations, or preclusion by stations of higher ranking. The Canadian agreement restricts the assignment of stations within 500 km of the common border to 1620, 1640, 1660, 1680, and 1700 kHz with a US priority on 1680 kHz and a Canadian priority on 1630 kHz. Stations on 1620, 1640, 1660, and 1700 kHz must be notified to Canada. A comparable restriction applies to Canadian stations. The Mexican agreement restricts assignments within 450 km of the common border to 21 specified frequencies at specific locations. If an expanded band proposal for a station was within 45 km of an allotment specified in the Mexican agreement it received an expanded band allotment provided it was not precluded by a station with a higher ranking or other factors. U.S. Government TIS facilities were protected in accordance with the guidelines of 47 C.F.F 90.242(a)(2)(i). Expanded band stations were not allotted within 30 km of an existing station if the frequency relationship being considered was twice the frequency of the existing station. The allotments also maintain a separation of 53 km from existing 1590 khz stations and 200 km from existing 1600 kHz stations. Finally a proposed station may have been precluded by the allotment of a frequency to a station(s) having a higher ranking. Stations not selected for migration will be afforded thirty (30) days to file for reconsideration of the Allotment Plan with arguments limited to addressing errors in the selection process. After the Allotment Plan has become final and no longer subject to Commission reconsideration, the Commission will enter the allotments into the Commission's AM Engineering Data Base. The Commission will issue a Public Notice of the finality of the Allotment Plan and call for applications to be filed. Stations selected for migration will be afforded sixty (60) days from the date the plan becomes final in which to file an application for construction permit on the allotted channel The application should be filed on Form 301 and must be accompanied by the normal filing fee for such application. After acceptance of the application for filing, the Commission will then put the application on a cut-off list. The application will then be subject to petitions to deny but not to competing applications. After grant of the construction permit application and construction of the authorized facilities, the expanded band permittee will then file a covering license application on FCC Form 302. Licenses for stations in the expanded band will be issued for a term that is concurrent with the existing license for operation in the 535-1605 khz band. For more information, contact Jim Buttle at (202) 418-2660. AM EXPANDED BAND ALLOTMENTS Pres.Ex.Bd. Call Licensed to State kHz kHz WEUP Huntsville AL 1600 1610 KFVR Cresent City CA 1310 1610 KECN Blackfoot ID 690 1610 KENN Farmington NM 1390 1610 KXBT Vallejo CA 1190 1620 KHMO Hannibal MO 1070 1620 WVMI Biloxi MS 570 1620 WLNC Laurinburg NC 1300 1620 KQWB West Fargo ND 1550 1620 WEHH Elmira Heights NY 1590 1620 KPAR Granbury TX 1420 1620 WGOD St. Thomas VI 1090 1620 KRIZ Renton WA 1420 1620 KSHY Fox Farm WY 1530 1620 KIDR Phoenix AZ 740 1630 WPGS Mims FL 840 1630 KCJJ Iowa City IA 1560 1630 KYUU Liberal KS 1470 1630 WSYD Mount Airy NC 1300 1630 KTMT Phoenix OR 880 1630 WTAW College StationTX 1150 1630 KTKK Sandy UT 630 1630 KLOQ Merced CA 1580 1640 KRKS Denver CO 990 1640 WAOK Atlanta GA 1380 1640 WIWO South Bend IN 1580 1640 KLXX Bismark/Mandan ND 1270 1640 WTRY Troy NY 980 1640 KTRT Claremore OK 1270 1640 KPHP Lake Oswego OR 1290 1640 KURV Edinburg TX 710 1640 KITA Little Rock AR 1440 1650 KFRN Long Beach CA 1280 1650 KNRO Redding CA 600 1650 WBIT Adel GA 1470 1650 KCFI Cedar Falls IA 1250 1650 KSVE El Paso TX 1150 1650 KSOS Brigham City UT 800 1650 WPMH Portsmouth VA 1010 1650 KBLU Yuma AZ 560 1660 KRCX Roseville CA 1110 1660 KCOL Ft. Collins CO 1410 1660 WCCF Punta Gorda FL 1580 1660 KAGY Port Sulphur LA 1510 1660 WRGC Sylva NC 680 1660 WJDM Elizabeth NJ 1530 1660 WPJC Adjuntas PR 1020 1660 KHVN Fort Worth TX 970 1660 KEYF Dishman WA 1050 1660 WNNO Wisconsin DellsWI 900 1660 KWHN Fort Smith AR 1320 1670 KECR El Cajon CA 910 1670 WRCC Warner Robins GA 1600 1670 WTGM Salisbury MD 960 1670 KKOJ Jackson MN 1190 1670 KKIS Concord CA 1480 1680 KQXI Arvada CO 1550 1680 WELX Callahan FL 1160 1680 WKCT Bowling Green KY 930 1680 WNSW Brewer ME 1200 1680 WEBC Duluth MN 560 1680 WNED Buffalo NY 970 1680 KDSX Denison-ShermanTX 950 1680 KPOZ Seattle WA 1590 1680 WKRG Mobile AL 710 1690 KFRE Fresno CA 940 1690 WBCI Normal IL 1440 1690 WGHB Farmville NC 1250 1690 KCRC Enid OK 1390 1690 WRRA Frederiksted VI 1290 1690 WFMH Cullman AL 1460 1700 KCEE Tuscon AZ 940 1700 KAHI Auburn CA 950 1700 WOKB Winter Garden FL 1600 1700 KRGI Grand Island NE 1430 1700 KAHZ Fort Worth TX 1360 1700 WAGE Leesburg VA 1200 1700 KCPL Olympia WA 920 1700 WKSH Sussex WI 1370 1700