71490 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 199 / Tuesday, October 17, 2023 / Rules and Regulations 

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1997 8-Hour Ozone 

National Ambient Air 

Quality Standard 

Second Maintenance 

Plan for the Hampton 

Roads Area.

Hampton Roads Area 

(Norfolk-Virginia 

Beach-Newport 

News area).

09/09/2022 10/17/2023, [INSERT 

Federal Register 

CITATION].

The Hampton Roads Area consists of the 

counties of Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James 

City, and York, and the cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, 

Poquoson, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Virginia 

Beach, and Williamsburg. 

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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 73 

[MB Docket No. 23–244; RM–11955; DA 23– 

937; FR ID 178083] 

Television Broadcasting Services 

Knoxville, Tennessee 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal 

Communications Commission’s Media 

Bureau, Video Division (Bureau) issued 

a issued a notice of proposed 

rulemaking in response to a Petition for 

Rulemaking filed by Tennessee TV, LLC 

(Petitioner), the licensee of television 

station WKNX–TV (WKNX–TV or 

Station), channel 7, Knoxville, 

Tennessee (Knoxville). The Petitioner 

has requested the substitution of UHF 

channel 21 for VHF channel 7 in the 

Table of TV Allotments. For the reasons 

set forth in the Report and Order 

referenced below, the Bureau amends 

FCC regulations to substitute channel 21 

for channel 7 at Knoxville. 

DATES: Effective October 17, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joyce Bernstein, Media Bureau, at (202) 

418–1647 or Joyce.Bernstein@fcc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

proposed rule was published at 88 FR 

48784 on July 28, 2023. The Petitioner 

filed comments in support of the 

petition reaffirming its commitment to 

apply for channel 21. No other 

comments were filed. 

The Bureau believes the public 

interest would be served by substituting 

channel 21 for channel 7 at Knoxville, 

Tennessee. The Commission has 

recognized that VHF channels pose 

challenges for their use in providing 

digital television service, including 

propagation characteristics that allow 

undesired signals and noise to be 

receivable at relatively far distances and 

large variability in the performance of 

indoor antennas available to viewers, 

with most antennas performing very 

poorly on high VHF channels. In its 

Supplement, the Petitioner provided a 

technical analysis showing that while 

50,322 persons located along the 

eastern, southern, and western fringes of 

the Station’s authorized channel 7 NLSC 

would not be within the proposed 

channel 21 noise-limited service 

contour, the entire loss area was within 

the NLSC of at least five other full 

power or Class A television stations, 

including four other full power 

television stations licensed to Knoxville 

or a community in the Knoxville 

Designated Market Area. Although the 

Petitioner’s proposal would result in a 

number of persons no longer being 

within WKNX–TV’s NLSC when the 

station moves to channel 21, all of those 

persons will continue to be well served 

by at least five other full power or Class 

A stations, and we find that the overall 

benefits of the proposed channel change 

by resolving reception issues outweigh 

any possible harm to the public interest. 

This is a synopsis of the Commission’s 

Report and Order, MB Docket No. 23– 

244; RM–11955; DA 23–937, adopted 

October 6, 2023, and released October 6, 

2023. The full text of this document is 

available for download at https://

www.fcc.gov/edocs. To request materials 

in accessible formats for people with 

disabilities (braille, large print, 

electronic files, audio format), send an 

email to fcc504@fcc.gov or call the 

Consumer & Governmental Affairs 

Bureau at 202–418–0530 (voice), 202– 

418–0432 (tty). 

This document does not contain 

information collection requirements 

subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act 

of 1995, Public Law 104–13. In addition, 

therefore, it does not contain any 

proposed information collection burden 

‘‘for small business concerns with fewer 

than 25 employees,’’ pursuant to the 

Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 

2002, Public Law 107–198, see 44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(4). Provisions of the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act of 1980, 5 U.S.C. 601– 

612, do not apply to this proceeding. 

The Commission will send a copy of 

this Report and Order in a report to be 

sent to Congress and the Government 

Accountability Office pursuant to the 

Congressional Review Act, see 5 U.S.C. 

801(a)(1)(A). 

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 73 

Television. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Thomas Horan, 

Chief of Staff, Media Bureau. 

Final Rule 

For the reasons discussed in the 

preamble, the Federal Communications 

Commission amends 47 CFR part 73 as 

follows: 

PART 73—RADIO BROADCAST 

SERVICE 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 73 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 155, 301, 303, 

307, 309, 310, 334, 336, 339. 

■ 2. In § 73.622, in paragraph (j), amend 

the Table of TV Allotments, under 

Tennessee, by revising the entry for 

Knoxville to read as follows: 

§ 73.622 Table of TV allotments. 

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(j) * * * 

Community Channel No. 

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Tennessee 

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Knoxville ........... 10, 15, 21, 26, * 29, 34 

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