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Long march to opportunity

• SRG worked for years to create a framework for
  licensing new spectrum
• Point system for resolving MX situations
• Settlement policies for voluntary resolution
• Full facility application window ahead of other
  spectrum proceedings (LPFM upgrades, etc.)
• Sufficient advance notice to the field
• Proposed limit on applications

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Play defense and offense

• Understand the point system
• Just being good doesnt count
• Significant first service, you win
• These are no mercy rules
• Sometimes your best option may be to work with
  others

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Play defense and offense

• Get minor changes done yesterday
• Protect your translators
• Monitor applications as they are filed

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Play defense and offense

• Use resources in the field
• Public Radio Capital frequency studies
• 169 markets
• Short list of top picks
• NPR Labs translator studies
• Public radio translators by population
• Will be on nprstations.org
• Non-public radio noncommercial translator list

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First Tier (75 - 100 coverage)

• Lancaster PA
• Flint MI
• Canton OH
• Stockton CA
• Saginaw-Bay City-Midland MI
• Biloxi-Gulfport-Pascagoula MS
• Reading PA
• Appleton- Oshkosh WI
• Albuquerque NM
• Las Vegas NV

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Second Tier (50-74 coverage)

• Victor Valley, CA
• Buffalo-Niagara Falls NY
• Huntsville AL
• Portsmouth-Dover-Rochester NY
• York PA
• Syracuse NY
• Baton Rouge LA
• Wilmington DE
• Youngstown-Warren OH
• Trenton NJ

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Third Tier (lt 50 coverage, gt500,000 people)

• Phoenix AZ
• Milwaukee-Racine WI
• Minneapolis-St Paul MN
• Hartford-New Britain-Middleton CT
• Cincinnati OH
• Richmond VA

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Next steps for SRG

• Protect the process
• Pending request for limit on number of
  applications
• Push for annual filing window
• Ask for extended settlement window