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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

47 CFR Part 1 

[MD Docket No. 24–86; MD Docket No. 24– 

85; FCC 24–93; FR ID 244040] 

Review of the Commission’s 

Assessment and Collection of 

Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 2024; 

Assessment and Collection of Space 

and Earth Station Regulatory Fees for 

Fiscal Year 2024, Second Report and 

Order 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: In this document, the 

Commission revises its Schedule of 

Regulatory Fees to recover $390,192,000 

that Congress has required the 

Commission to collect for its fiscal year 

(FY) 2024. Sections 9 and 9A of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended (Act or Communications Act), 

provides for the annual assessment and 

collection of regulatory fees by the 

Commission. 

DATES: Effective September 25, 2024. To 

avoid penalties and interest, regulatory 

fees should be paid by the due date of 

September 26, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Roland Helvajian, Office of Managing 

Director at (202) 418–0444. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

summary of the Commission’s Second 

Report and Order (Report and Order), 

FCC 24–93, MD Docket No. 24–86 and 

MD Docket No. 24–85, adopted on 

September 6, 2024, and released on 

September 6, 2024. The full text of this 

document is available for public 

inspection by downloading the text 

from the Commission’s website at 

https://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_

Releases/Daily_Business/2017/db0906/ 

FCC-17-111A1.pdf. 

Administrative Matters 

Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

The Regulatory Flexibility Act of 

1980, as amended (RFA), requires that 

an agency prepare a regulatory 

flexibility analysis for notice and 

comment rulemakings, unless the 

agency certifies that ‘‘the rule will not, 

if promulgated, have a significant 

economic impact on a substantial 

number of small entities.’’ Accordingly, 

we have prepared a Final Regulatory 

Flexibility Analysis (FRFA) concerning 

the possible impact of the rule changes 

contained in the Report and Order on 

small entities. The FRFA is set forth in 

the back of this document. 

Final Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

Analysis 

This document contains a nonsubstantive change to information 

requirements that were previously 

reviewed and approved by the Office of 

Management and Budget pursuant to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), Public Law 104–13. The change 

will be submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget for review as a 

non-substantive change. Because this 

change is non-substantive, there is no 

new or modified 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. 

Congressional Review Act 

The Commission has determined, and 

the Administrator of the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, 

concurs that this rule is non-major 

under the Congressional Review Act, 5 

U.S.C. 804(2). The Commission will 

send a copy of the Report and Order to 

Congress and the Government 

Accountability Office pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 801(a)(1)(A). 

People With Disabilities 

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 and 

Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 

418–0530 (voice). 

Introduction 

Each year, the Commission must 

adopt a schedule of regulatory fees to be 

collected by the end of September. For 

fiscal year (FY) 2024, the Commission is 

required to collect $390,192,000 in 

regulatory fees, pursuant to section 9 of 

the Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended (Act or Communications Act) 

and the Commission’s FY 2024 Further 

Consolidation Appropriations Act. In 

the Report and Order, we adopt the 

regulatory fee schedule to assess and 

collect $390,192,000 in congressionally 

required regulatory fees for FY 2024. 

The regulatory fee schedule we adopt 

for FY 2024 was proposed in the 

Commission’s annual regulatory fee 

notice of proposed rulemaking (FY 2024 

NPRM) (89 FR 53276, June 25, 2024), as 

modified herein, and as set forth in 

tables 3 and 4. 

The Report and Order revises the 

allocation of Space Bureau Full-Time 

Equivalents (FTE) burdens between 

Geostationary Orbit (GSO) and NonGeostationary Orbit (NGSO) space 

station fee categories using the existing 

methodology for calculating their 

proportional share of regulatory fees; 

and keeps in place the existing 

allocation of Space Bureau FTE burdens 

between NGSO ‘‘less complex’’ and 

NGSO ‘‘other’’ space stations. The 

Report and Order also adopts the 

proposals in our FY 2024 NPRM, with 

some modifications. Similar to the 

reallocation process conducted in FY 

2023, the Commission also reallocates 

approximately 61 indirect FTEs as 

direct FTEs to one of the Commission’s 

core licensing bureaus. Such 

reallocations reflect our conclusion that 

we can determine, with reasonable 

accuracy for this fiscal year, that certain 

FTE work in the Office of General 

Counsel, the Office of Economics and 

Analytics, and the Public Safety and 

Homeland Security Bureau is 

sufficiently linked to the oversight and 

regulation of regulatory fee payors in a 

core bureau such that the FTE burden of 

that work should be allocated as direct 

to that core bureau for regulatory fee 

purposes. The direct FTE allocations 

used in calculating regulatory fees in the 

Report and Order also reflect the fact the 

Commission reallocated all the 

authorities and functions of the (former) 

International Bureau to the new Space 

Bureau and a new Office of 

International Affairs (OIA). Consistent 

with our long-standing regulatory fee 

methodology, the Commission 

implements these reallocations, for 

regulatory fee purposes, for FY 2024. 

Additionally, in the Report and 

Order, the Commission adopts the 

proposal in the FY 2024 NPRM for the 

calculation of television broadcaster 

regulatory fees, using our traditional 

methodology of population-based fullservice broadcast television regulatory 

fees; and adopts the proposal to 

discontinue the presumption that 

broadcast stations that are dark or were 

recently dark or bankrupt are 

experiencing financial hardship 

sufficient to justify waiver of their 

regulatory fees. The end of the dark 

station presumption will apply for FY 

2025 regulatory fees. For FY 2024 

regulatory fees, § 1.1910 of the 

Commission’s rules will apply in full. In 

addition, pursuant to § 1.1166 of the 

Commission’s rules, regulatory fee 

payors filing requests for waiver, 

reduction, deferral, and/or installment 

payment of regulatory fees must provide 

all financial documentation to support 

the request at the time of filing the 

request. Finally, to assist with a 

significant increase from the FY 2023 

fees, particularly for earth station and 

NGSO space station fee payors, we 

direct the Office of Managing Director to 


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provide the lowest interest rate 

permitted by statute and forgo its 

customary down payment requirement 

when FY 2024 regulatory fee debt is 

paid under an installment payment 

plan. 

The Commission will seek further 

comment on the remaining proposals 

made in the Space and Earth Station 

Regulatory Fees NPRM (89 FR 20582, 

March 25, 2024) that were not adopted 

in the recent Space Station Regulatory 

Fees Order (89 FR 60572, July 26, 2024) 

and the suggestions made by 

commenters in connection with these 

proposals. Those proposals include 

assessing regulatory fees on authorized, 

but not operational, space and earth 

stations; using an alternative 

methodology for assessing space station 

regulatory fees; establishing tiers within 

existing NGSO space station fee 

categories based on the number of space 

stations in the system; and creating new 

categories of earth station regulatory 

fees. The Commission expects to take 

action on these remaining proposals in 

time for them to be effective for FY 

2025. 

Background 

Pursuant to sections 9 and 9A of the 

Act and the Commission’s FY 2024 

appropriations, we are required to 

collect $390,192,000 in regulatory fees 

for FY 2024. Regulatory fees recover all 

of the Commission’s non-auctions costs, 

including direct costs, such as salaries 

and expenses; indirect costs, such as 

overhead functions; statutorily required 

tasks that do not directly equate with 

oversight and regulation of a particular 

regulatory fee payor but instead benefit 

the Commission and the industry as a 

whole; and support costs, such as rent, 

utilities, and equipment. Regulatory fees 

must recover the total amount of the 

annual appropriation; i.e., they must 

also recover the Commission’s costs 

incurred in oversight and regulation of 

entities that do not pay regulatory fees, 

including those that are statutorily 

exempt from paying regulatory fees 

(governmental and nonprofit entities, 

amateur radio operators, and 

noncommercial radio and television 

stations), entities that are exempt from 

payment of regulatory fees because their 

total assessed annual regulatory fees fall 

below the annual de minimis threshold, 

and entities whose regulatory fees are 

waived. 

Regulatory Fees Calculation 

Methodology 

Congress prescribed a method of 

collecting an amount equal to the full 

S&E appropriation by keying the 

regulatory fee assessment to our FTE 

burden. Specifically, the methodology 

for assessing regulatory fees must 

‘‘reflect the full-time equivalent number 

of employees within the bureaus and 

offices of the Commission, adjusted to 

take into account factors that are 

reasonably related to the benefits 

provided to the payor of the fee by the 

Commission’s activities.’’ Given the 

Act’s explicit language that fees must 

reflect FTEs, the Commission has long 

concluded that FTE counts are the most 

administrable starting point for 

regulatory fee allocations. The 

Commission hews closely to the 

statutory command to start with FTE 

counts and then potentially adjust fees 

to reflect other factors related to the 

benefit of Commission regulation and 

oversight. It is also noted that regulatory 

fees are a zero-sum game, because the 

Commission must collect the full 

amount of its appropriation each fiscal 

year. Thus, any decrease to the fees paid 

by one category of regulatory fee payors 

necessitates an increase in fees paid by 

other categories of regulatory fee payors. 

Therefore, the amount assigned to be 

recovered from each regulatory fee 

category relates to the FTE burden 

associated with oversight and regulation 

of those fee payors by the relevant core 

bureaus. The Commission assigns direct 

FTEs within a bureau to specific fee 

categories in a manner that reflects the 

time spent by FTEs on oversight and 

regulation of a particular set of fee 

payors, which is the ‘‘benefit’’ to such 

payors in each fee category. Thus, the 

Commission apportions regulatory fees 

across fee categories based on the 

number of direct FTEs in each core 

bureau to take into account factors that 

are reasonably related to the payor’s 

benefits. We allocate appropriated 

amounts to be recovered proportionally 

based on the number of direct FTEs 

within each core bureau; this is 

subdivided within each core bureau into 

fee categories among the regulatees 

served by the core bureau; and then 

divided by a unit that allocates the 

regulatory fee payor’s proportionate 

share based on an objective measure. If 

work performed by a group is directly 

related to our oversight and regulation 

of a regulatory fee category in one of the 

core licensing bureaus, then such FTEs 

are direct FTEs. 

For the annual regulatory fee 

calculations, the Commission first 

determines the number of direct FTEs, 

i.e., non-auctions FTEs that work in 

each of the Commission’s core bureaus 

(i.e., the Wireless Telecommunications 

Bureau, the Media Bureau, the Wireline 

Competition Bureau, the Office of 

International Affairs, and the Space 

Bureau). Regulatory fees are initially 

apportioned across the regulatory fee 

categories based on the number of direct 

FTEs in each core bureau whose time is 

focused on a particular industry 

segment and then is adjusted ‘‘to take 

into account factors that are reasonably 

related to the benefits provided to the 

payor of the fee by the Commission’s 

activities.’’ The Commission receives 

FTE data from its Human Resources 

Management office and identifies FTEs 

at the core bureau level (i.e., direct 

FTEs) to determine the FTE allocations 

for the core bureaus. The Commission 

also consults with the bureaus and 

offices to ascertain if FTEs previously 

deemed direct for a bureau or office 

should continue for the next fiscal year 

and this FTE data is then apportioned 

to the various fee categories within each 

core bureau based on FTE time spent on 

each fee category and is used to 

calculate the percentage of the total 

amount of regulatory fees to be collected 

for a given fiscal year from each core 

bureau. Those proportions are then 

subdivided within each core bureau into 

fee categories among the regulatees 

served by the core bureau. Finally, 

within each regulatory fee category the 

amount to be collected (fee category 

proportional percentage multiplied by 

the revenue target goal) is divided by a 

unit that allocates the regulatory fee 

payor’s share based on an objective 

measure. 

Regulatory fees must cover the 

Commission’s entire appropriation, and 

this includes Commission work on 

issues for which we do not have 

regulatory fee categories. Therefore, we 

continue to find that, consistent with 

section 9 of the Act, regulatory fees are 

not based on a precise allocation of 

specific employees with certain work 

assignments each year and instead are 

based on a higher-level approach. 

Indirect FTE time covers a wide range 

of issues that may also include services 

that are not specifically correlated with 

one core bureau, let alone one specific 

category of regulatory fee payors. 

Indirect FTE work also includes matters 

that are not specific to any regulatory 

fee category, and many Commission 

attorneys, engineers, analysts, and other 

staff work on a variety of issues during 

a single fiscal year. For example, 

indirect FTEs that devote time to 

broadband internet access services or 

Universal Service Fund issues may also 

work on a variety of other issues during 

the fiscal year. Further, much of the 

work that could be assigned to a single 

category of regulatory fee payors is 

likely to be interspersed with the work 

that FTEs do on behalf of many entities 


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that do not pay regulatory fees, e.g., 

those that are statutorily exempt from 

paying regulatory fees (governmental 

and nonprofit entities, amateur radio 

operators, and noncommercial radio and 

television stations), entities that are 

exempt from payment of regulatory fees 

because their total assessed annual 

regulatory fees fall below the annual de 

minimis threshold, and entities whose 

regulatory fees are waived. 

There must be a very strong rationale 

for changing the manner of 

proportionally allocating indirect FTEs 

to certain fee categories based on direct 

FTEs because any such changes will 

impact the fees of other regulatory fee 

categories. Any decrease to the fees paid 

by one category of regulatory fee payors 

necessitates an increase in fees for 

others. Thus, we affirm that (other than 

for the reassignments discussed below) 

the non-auctions FTE work in certain 

non-core bureaus and offices within the 

Commission are properly designated as 

indirect. Last year the Commission was 

able to determine with reasonable 

accuracy for the fiscal year that in some 

cases the indirect FTE work was directly 

related to the oversight and regulation of 

regulatory fee payors in a core bureau 

such that it should be considered as 

direct to that core bureau for calculating 

regulatory fees. After close analysis, the 

Commission reallocated 63 indirect 

FTEs from the Office of General 

Counsel, the Office of Economics and 

Analytics, and the Public Safety and 

Homeland Security Bureau as direct 

FTEs to core bureaus, for FY 2023. In 

addition, the Commission reallocated 

two direct FTEs from the Media Bureau 

as indirect FTEs because the nature of 

their work was sufficiently linked to 

work that is similar to work performed 

in the Enforcement Bureau, a non-core 

bureau. In analyzing the FTE work, we 

applied conservative estimates and 

rounded down to the nearest whole FTE 

for such reallocations. As we discuss 

below, we are applying the same 

analysis this year, with similar 

reallocations of some indirect FTEs to 

core bureaus as direct FTEs. 

Adjustments and Amendments to the 

Regulatory Fee Schedule 

Each year, in the annual regulatory fee 

proceeding, the Commission proposes 

adjustments to the fee schedule under 

section 9(c) of the Act to ‘‘(A) reflect 

unexpected increases or decreases in the 

number of units subject to the payment 

of such fees; and (B) result in the 

collection of the amount required’’ by 

the Commission’s annual appropriation. 

Pursuant to section 9A(b)(1) of the Act, 

the Commission must notify Congress 

immediately upon adoption of any 

adjustment. Annual regulatory fees 

typically change each fiscal year as a 

consequence of the changes in the total 

amount to be collected, the number of 

Commission direct FTEs, and the unit 

estimates for each regulatory fee 

category. In addition, in considering 

other additions or deletions to the 

regulatory fee schedule, the 

Commission’s focus is on direct FTE 

cost burdens related to the regulatory 

fee category at issue. 

The Commission will also propose 

amendments to the fee schedule under 

section 9(d) of the Act ‘‘if the 

Commission determines that the 

schedule requires amendment so that 

such fees reflect the full-time equivalent 

number of employees within the 

bureaus and offices of the Commission, 

adjusted to take into account factors that 

are reasonably related to the benefits 

provided section 9A(b)(2) of the Act, the 

Commission must notify Congress at 

least 90 days prior to making effective 

any amendments to the regulatory fee 

schedule. The Commission considers a 

section 9(d) amendment, such as the 

adoption of a new regulatory fee 

category or a change in methodology for 

an existing regulatory fee category only 

after developing a sufficient basis for 

making the change, and works to ensure 

that all changes ensure that our 

assessment of regulatory fees is fair, 

administrable, and sustainable. 

The Commission has adopted new 

regulatory fee categories and new 

methodologies for calculating regulatory 

fees when there is a sufficient basis for 

doing so under the relevant statutory 

provisions and precedent, and based on 

the record. In 2020, for example, the 

Commission included non-U.S. licensed 

space stations with U.S. market access 

grants in the existing ‘‘Space Stations’’ 

fee category. The Commission 

concluded that assessing the same 

regulatory fees on non-U.S. licensed 

space stations with U.S. market access 

as assessed on U.S. licensed space 

stations would better reflect the benefits 

received by these operators, i.e., the 

adjudicatory, enforcement, regulatory, 

and international coordination activities 

by the Commission’s FTEs in the 

International Bureau. More recently, the 

Commission adopted a new 

methodology for calculating small 

satellite regulatory fees in the Space 

Station Regulatory Fees Order, and we 

are using that methodology for FY 2024. 

Report and Order 

In the Report and Order, the 

Commission adopts a schedule of 

regulatory fees, as set forth in tables 3 

and 4, to collect $390,192,000 in 

congressionally required regulatory fees 

for FY 2024 by the end of September. 

The Commission also implements the 

same methodology we have used 

historically for allocating FTEs and the 

new methodology adopted in the Space 

Station Regulatory Fees Order for 

determining regulatory fees for small 

satellites. The Report and Order adopts 

the proposal from the Space and Earth 

Station Regulatory Fees NPRM to revise 

the allocation of the share of Space 

Bureau regulatory fees among earth and 

space stations and the GSO/NGSO 

regulatory fees allocation, as well as to 

maintain the current allocation between 

‘‘less complex’’ and ‘‘other’’ NGSO 

space stations fee categories. The Report 

and Order also adopts the proposals, as 

modified herein, in our FY 2024 NPRM, 

and reallocates 61 indirect FTEs as 

direct to certain Commission core 

licensing bureaus. Additionally, we 

adopt our proposal for the calculation of 

television broadcaster regulatory fees for 

FY 2024 and, effective for FY 2025, we 

discontinue the presumption that 

broadcast stations that are dark or were 

recently dark or bankrupt are 

experiencing financial hardship 

sufficient to justify waiver of their 

regulatory fees. We also provide notice 

that for FY 2024 we will offer some but 

not all of the limited remaining 

temporary relief previously offered in 

response to the COVID–19 pandemic; 

that is, the Office of Managing Director 

will continue assessing the lowest 

interest rate permitted by statute and 

forgo the customary down payment for 

fee payors who are eligible for 

installment payment relief. 

Methodology for Assessing Regulatory 

Fees and Reallocating FTEs 

The three main factors in determining 

regulatory fees are the amount of the FY 

appropriation, direct FTE levels in core 

bureaus, and relevant unit measures for 

each regulatory fee category. Section 9 

of the Act requires us to set regulatory 

fees to ‘‘reflect the full-time equivalent 

number of employees within the 

bureaus and offices of the Commission 

adjusted to take into account factors that 

are reasonably related to the benefits 

provided to the payor of the fee by the 

Commission’s activities.’’ With respect 

to determining the number of direct 

FTEs, the Commission takes into 

consideration any adjustments 

necessitated by changes in these factors 

from the prior fiscal year. Second, the 

Commission looks to the core bureaus 

within the Commission in order to 

identify the number of direct nonauction FTEs in each core bureau for 

purposes of the regulatory fee 

calculation. After we calculate the 

number of direct FTEs for each core 


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bureau, we can determine the 

percentage of the total amount of 

regulatory fees to be collected from each 

regulatory fee category within each core 

bureau. These proportional calculations 

allocate all Commission non-auction 

related costs across all regulatory fee 

categories. 

In FY 2023, in addition to looking at 

the current allocation of direct FTEs 

within the core bureaus, the 

Commission analyzed the work of 

indirect FTEs in non-core bureaus and 

offices and, where the Commission 

could determine with reasonable 

accuracy that such work was spent on 

the regulation and oversight of a 

regulatory fee category, the Commission 

reallocated the burden of that work as 

direct to a core bureau, for regulatory fee 

purposes. As a result of such analysis 

for FY 2023, 63 indirect FTEs from the 

Office of General Counsel (OGC), the 

Office of Economics and Analytics 

(OEA), and the Public Safety and 

Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB) 

were reallocated as direct FTEs to a core 

bureau, for regulatory fee purposes, 

based on the Commission’s evaluation 

of the burden of their work. For FY 

2024, we are adopting the same analysis 

of indirect FTEs. 

In our FY 2023 Report and Order (88 

FR 63694, September 15, 2023), we 

explained that FY 2024 would be the 

first year where we incorporate the 

Space Bureau and the Office of 

International Affairs into our analysis, 

even though the organizational changes 

became effective on April 13, 2013. 

Below we explain how changes in the 

FTE allocations impact our analysis. For 

FY 2024, we analyzed the work of 

PSHSB, OGC, and OEA FTEs to 

determine whether any of their indirect 

FTE work should be allocated as direct 

FTEs to a core bureau for regulatory fee 

purposes, as we had done in FY 2023. 

As described in more detail below, 61 

indirect FTEs (after two Media Bureau 

FTEs are assigned to the Enforcement 

Bureau because of the tasks that are 

performed by the two Media Bureau 

staff) are reallocated as direct FTEs to a 

core bureau for regulatory fee purposes, 

based on our evaluation of the burden 

of their work. We find that these 

proposed reallocations are consistent 

with section 9 of the Act, which 

requires us to base our methodology on 

the number of FTEs in calculating 

regulatory fees. 

Reallocations, for Regulatory Fee 

Purposes, of Certain Indirect FTEs as 

Direct FTEs 

For FY 2024, we reallocate 61 indirect 

FTEs from the Office of Economics and 

Analytics, the Office of General 

Counsel, and the Public Safety and 

Homeland Security Bureau and add 

those FTEs as direct to the relevant core 

bureaus, for regulatory fee purposes. 

Based upon our evaluation of indirect 

FTE time in the Office of Economics and 

Analytics, the Office of General 

Counsel, and the Public Safety and 

Homeland Security Bureau, we find that 

63 indirect FTEs should be reallocated 

as direct FTEs because they devote their 

time to the oversight and regulation of 

regulatory fee payors. We will also 

continue to reallocate two direct FTEs 

from the Media Bureau as indirect 

because the nature of their work is 

sufficiently linked to work that is 

similar to that performed in the 

Enforcement Bureau, which has been 

categorized as indirect. As we explained 

in the FY 2023 NPRM (88 FR 36154, 

June 1, 2023), when we discuss FTEs, 

we are not referring to any particular 

employee at the Commission but rather 

to an amount of work performed 

annually by a full time employee or 

employees. In analyzing the work, the 

Commission applied conservative 

estimates so as not to imply a false sense 

of precision in the proposed 

reallocation. Specifically, where the 

amount of work under consideration for 

reallocation of an indirect FTE was half 

an FTE or less, we rounded down and 

we only proposed our reallocations in 

full FTE increments. As we have 

discussed our analysis for the Office of 

Economics and Analytics, the Office of 

General Counsel, and the Public Safety 

and Homeland Security Bureau 

reallocations in the FY 2023 Report and 

Order and the FY 2023 NPRM, we are 

not repeating the analysis here. 

Based on these reallocations, and after 

adjustments are made to these direct 

FTE counts to implement Commission 

precedent, we will collect 

approximately $6.711 million (1.72%) 

in fees from the Office of International 

Affairs regulatory fee payors; $41.204 

million (10.56%) in fees from the Space 

Bureau regulatory fee payors; $100.084 

million (25.65%) in fees from Wireless 

Telecommunications Bureau regulatory 

fee payors; $127.203 million (32.60%) 

in fees from Wireline Competition 

Bureau regulatory fee payors; and 

$114.990 million (29.47%) in fees from 

Media Bureau regulatory fee payors. The 

reallocations for regulatory fee purposes 

will result in increasing the number of 

direct FTEs in core bureaus and 

increasing the percentage of FTEs in 

some of the bureaus. Our underlying 

methodology for calculating regulatory 

fees remains unchanged; our regulatory 

fee calculation continues to be 

consistent with section 9 of the Act, 

which requires us to base our 

methodology on the number of FTEs in 

calculating regulatory fees. 

TABLE 1—FY 2024 FTE REALLOCATIONS

Core bureau/office 

Total FY 2024 

direct FTEs 

without 

reallocations 

FY 2024 

reallocations 

Total FY 2024 

direct FTEs 

with 

reallocations 

FY 2024 

percent of 

direct FTEs, 

after 

reallocation 

Office of International Affairs .......................... 8 0 ..................................................................... 8 1.72 

Space Bureau ................................................. 48 +1 (1 from OEA) ............................................ 49 10.56 

Wireless Telecommunications Bureau ........... 95 +24 (8 from OEA, 2 from OGC, and 14 from 

PSHSB).

119 25.65 

Wireline Competition Bureau .......................... 128.25 +23 (13 from OEA, 1 from OGC, and 9 from 

PSHSB).

151.25 32.60 

Media Bureau .................................................. 125 +13 (7 from OEA, 1 from OGC, 7 from 

PSHSB, and ¥2 from EB).

138 29.47 

Total ......................................................... 404.25 61 ................................................................... 465.25 100 


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Space Bureau and Office of 

International Affairs 

Among its responsibilities regarding 

satellite and space-based 

communications and activities, the 

Space Bureau leads complex policy 

analysis and rulemakings; authorizes 

satellite and earth station systems used 

for space-based services; streamlines 

regulatory processes; and fosters the 

efficient use of spectrum and orbital 

resources. The Space Bureau also serves 

as the Commission’s focal point for 

coordination with other U.S. 

government agencies on matters of 

space policy and governance and 

collaborates with the Office of 

International Affairs for consultations 

with other countries, international and 

multi-lateral organizations, and foreign 

government officials that involve 

satellite and space policy matters. 

The Space Bureau has three divisions 

that have the functions previously 

handled by the International Bureau’s 

Satellite Division: the Satellite 

Licensing Division, the Satellite 

Programs and Policy Division, and the 

Earth Station Licensing Division. 

Pursuant to the procedure discussed in 

paragraph six, above, our Human 

Resources Management office has 

identified 54 FTEs in the Space Bureau 

for FY 2024; of these, 48 are categorized 

as direct FTEs and six are devoted to 

matters that do not provide oversight 

and regulation of any category of 

regulatory fee payors, and thus are 

indirect FTEs. 

The indirect Space Bureau FTEs 

coordinate with the National 

Aeronautics and Space Administration 

(NASA), Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), National Oceanic 

and Atmospheric Administration 

(NOAA), and the State Department on 

space sustainability, planetary 

protections, and on space innovation. 

They assist the Office of Engineering 

and Technology in reviewing 

applications for experimental licenses 

for space-based activities. The Space 

Bureau works closely with the Office of 

International Affairs to help cover 

certain ITU World 

Radiocommunications Conference 

(WRC) agenda items. We conclude that 

six Space Bureau FTEs are appropriately 

considered indirect as such work does 

not focus on the oversight and 

regulation of a specific category of 

regulatory fee payors, but instead 

benefits the Commission, the 

telecommunications industry, or the 

public as a whole, or in the case of work 

done on experimental licenses, is in 

furtherance of licenses that are not 

currently subject to a regulatory fee. 

The Commission rejects Kine ́is’ 

argument that we should consider more 

of the Space Bureau direct FTEs as 

indirect for regulatory fee purposes in 

order to reduce the regulatory fees for 

space stations. We recognize that 

previously the International Bureau had 

only 28 direct FTEs (of which 20 

worked on space and earth stations). As 

explained above, the Commission 

obtained FTE data from our Human 

Resources Management office and 

determined that for FY 2024, there are 

a total of 54 FTEs within the Space 

Bureau. After consultation with the 

Space Bureau and careful analysis, we 

have determined with reasonable 

accuracy for this fiscal year that 48 FTEs 

are direct FTEs and six are indirect 

FTEs, (and one indirect FTEs is 

designated as direct), for a total of 49 

direct FTEs in the Space Bureau. Of 

these 49 direct FTEs, nine are devoted 

to oversight and regulation of earth 

stations and 40 to space stations. This 

FTEs work directly relates to the 

oversight and regulation of regulatory 

fee payors in a core bureau such that it 

should be considered as direct. As such, 

it would not be consistent with our 

implementation of section 9 to reassign 

them as indirect in order to reduce the 

regulatory fees of the space and earth 

station regulatory fee payors. 

Thus, for FY 2024, we have a total of 

54 FTEs within the Space Bureau, 48 

direct FTEs, six indirect FTEs, and one 

indirect FTE from OEA designated as 

direct, for a total of 49 direct FTEs, an 

increase from the 20 FTEs from FY 2023 

working on Space and Earth Stations. 

Space Stations and Earth Stations 

There are two main categories of 

Space Bureau regulatory fee payors: 

earth and space stations. There is a 

single category of earth station payors— 

Earth Stations: Transmit/Receive & 

Transmit only. Space stations consist of 

those in geostationary satellite orbit 

(GSO) and those in non-geostationary 

satellite orbit (NGSO). There are four 

categories of space station regulatory fee 

payors: Space Stations (Geostationary 

Orbit); Space Stations (NonGeostationary Orbit)—Less Complex; 

Space Stations (Non-Geostationary 

Orbit)—Other; and Space Station (Small 

Satellites). ‘‘Less Complex’’ NGSO 

systems are defined as NGSO satellite 

systems planning to communicate with 

20 or fewer U.S. authorized earth 

stations that are primarily used for Earth 

Exploration Satellite Service (EESS) 

and/or Automatic Identification System 

(AIS). ‘‘Small Satellites’’ are space 

stations licensed pursuant to the 

streamlined small satellite process 

contained in § 25.122 of the 

Commission’s rules. Since our fiscal 

year 2020 proceeding, non-U.S. licensed 

space stations granted market access to 

the United States through a Petition for 

Declaratory Ruling or through earth 

station licenses are subject to regulatory 

fees. 

The units of assessment for GSO and 

NGSO space station regulatory fee 

categories differ in that the fee for GSO 

space stations is assessed per satellite in 

geostationary orbit, whereas the fee 

assessed for NGSO systems, either ‘‘less 

complex’’ or ‘‘other,’’ is per system of 

satellites, with no limit on the number 

of satellites per system. Fees for small 

satellites are assessed per license/call 

sign, which can include up to 10 

satellites or spacecraft. The unit of 

regulatory fees for GSO space stations is 

a single satellite, whereas the unit of 

regulatory fees for NGSO space stations 

can include many satellites. Thus, 

although the single highest regulatory 

fee for space stations is for Space 

Stations (Non-Geostationary Orbit)— 

Other, this fee reflects the regulatory 

burden associated with the licensing 

and oversight of numerous space 

stations in the system, usually subject to 

processing rounds, complex spectrum 

sharing arrangements, and providing 

global coverage. By contrast, the per 

unit fee for Space Stations 

(Geostationary Orbit) is lower, but an 

operator providing global coverage may 

be paying regulatory fees on multiple 

GSO space stations, which could result 

in annual regulatory fee payments by a 

single fee payor in aggregate far greater 

than the regulatory fee for Space 

Stations (Non-Geostationary Orbit)— 

Other providing similar services and 

coverage. 

Small Satellites and RPO, OOS, and 

OTV Regulatory Fees 

In 2019, the Commission adopted a 

new, optional licensing process for 

small satellites and spacecraft and a 

small satellite regulatory fee category for 

licensed and operational space stations 

authorized under the process adopted in 

that proceeding. This process enabled 

qualified applicants to choose a 

streamlined licensing procedure 

resulting in an easier application 

process, a lower application fee, and a 

shorter timeline for review. 

In our recent Space Station 

Regulatory Fees Order, the Commission 

adopted the proposal to set the 

regulatory fee for small satellites for FY 

2024 at the level set for FY 2023, i.e., 

$12,215, with future annual adjustments 

to reflect the percentage change in the 

Commission’s annual appropriation, 

unit count, and FTE allocation 

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The Commission stated that changes to 

the methodology for assessing fees for 

small satellites would be implemented 

as part of the order adopting FCC-wide 

regulatory fees for FY 2024. 

Accordingly, we are assessing the small 

satellite fee for FY 2024 at $12,215. 

The Space Station Regulatory Fees 

Order also adopted the proposal to 

assess regulatory fees, effective for FY 

2024, on spacecraft primarily 

performing Rendezvous and Proximity 

Operations (RPO) and On-Orbit 

Servicing (OOS) by including them in 

the existing regulatory fee category 

‘‘Space Stations (per license/call sign in 

non-geostationary orbit) (Small 

Satellites),’’ on an interim basis, 

regardless of the orbit in which they are 

designed to operate. It also concluded 

that it is appropriate to assess regulatory 

fees on Orbital Transfer Vehicles (OTV) 

on an interim basis in the same manner, 

and stated that the changes to the 

methodology for assessing fees for RPO, 

OOS, and OTV space stations would be 

implemented as part of the order 

adopting FCC-wide regulatory fees for 

FY 2024. Accordingly, we will assess 

regulatory fees on RPO, OOS, and OTV 

space stations for FY 2024 using the 

regulatory fee category for small 

satellites, if such stations are required to 

pay regulatory fees for FY 2024. 

GSO and NGSO Space Stations 

Allocation 

Under an allocation adopted in 2020, 

80% of space station regulatory fees are 

allocated to GSO space station fee 

payors and 20% of the space station 

regulatory fees to NGSO space station 

fee payors respectively. The 

Commission now adopts the proposal in 

the Space and Earth Station Regulatory 

Fees NPRM to change the allocation of 

space station regulatory fees from 80% 

of space station regulatory fees being 

allocated to GSO space station fee 

payors and 20% of the space station 

regulatory fees being allocated to NGSO 

space station fee payors to 60% of space 

station regulatory fees being allocated to 

GSO space station payors and 40% to 

NGSO space station payors (that is, 

changing from an ‘‘80/20 GSO/NGSO 

split’’ to a ‘‘60/40 GSO/NGSO split’’). 

The new allocation is supported by 

many comments, particularly from GSO 

space station fee payors. We recognize 

that this will result in increases to fees 

for NGSO systems; however, we 

conclude that this is consistent with 

section 9 of the Act because this change 

more accurately reflects the 

apportionment of current FTE work 

between these two categories of 

regulatory fee payors since the 

Commission last assessed the allocation 

in 2020. 

As explained the Space and Earth 

Station Regulatory Fees NPRM, this 

change in the FTE allocation between 

GSO and NGSO fee categories is not 

based on a new methodology, but rather 

application of the existing methodology 

analyzing data from the previous three 

fiscal years. Specifically, the proposal 

focused on three factors that the 

Commission’s previously had found to 

be reflective of licensing and regulatory 

oversight of GSO and NGSO operators: 

the number of applications processed, 

the number of changes made to the 

Commission’s rules, and FTEs devoted 

to oversight of each category of 

operators. Analyzing this data, the 

Space and Earth Station Regulatory 

Fees NPRM tentatively concluded that a 

greater allocation of regulatory fees to 

NGSO space stations than was adopted 

by the Commission in 2020 more 

accurately reflects the benefits of the 

Commission’s oversight and regulatory 

efforts for GSO and NGSO space stations 

for FY 2024. After reviewing the 

proposal and the record in response to 

the proposal, we find no significant 

error in the input data or the 

conclusions drawn from the data. 

Accordingly, we adopt the proposed 

updated allocation of 60% of space 

station regulatory fees being assessed to 

GSO space stations and 40% to NGSO 

space stations. 

We disagree with the NGSO space 

station operators that dispute the 

accuracy of the input data or the 

conclusions drawn from the data. 

Specifically, SpaceX argues that the 

increased FTE burdens associated with 

NGSO space station regulation result 

from the opposition of GSO space 

stations to applications for NGSO space 

stations, and that the methodology does 

not take into account purportedly 

smaller amount of FTE resources 

needed to process amendments to 

NGSO space station applications or 

modifications of NGSO space station 

authorizations that do not increase 

interference or orbital debris risk. Other 

commenters argue that the Commission 

should not base its regulatory fee 

allocations on historical events, i.e., 

proceedings during the past three fiscal 

years, particularly transitory activities 

that have been completed and that the 

Commission’s methodology focuses too 

much on licensing and regulation costs 

but does not sufficiently consider the 

benefits received as a result of the 

Commission’s activities. We find, 

however, that these concerns do not 

undermine an adoption of an updated 

allocation between GSO and NGSO 

categories because these commenters 

fail to consider that the methodology we 

use here represents our analysis of the 

FTE time split on these categories and 

is the same methodology as was used in 

2020 to establish the existing 80/20 

allocation that they support. 

Furthermore, as the Commission has 

repeatedly acknowledged, attributing a 

value to proceedings is not an exercise 

in scientific precision, but rather an 

exercise in reasonable analysis. 

We are also unconvinced that 

amendments to NGSO space station 

applications or modifications of NGSO 

space station authorizations do not raise 

interference or orbital debris risks, and 

therefore require less FTE burdens to 

authorize. Moreover, we reject the 

concept that comments or oppositions 

filed by GSO space station operators in 

response to NGSO space station filings 

support attributing those NGSO space 

station filings to the GSO share of space 

station regulatory fees. The underlying 

application is for an NGSO system. 

Parsing comments filed, or for that 

matter, issues raised by Commission 

staff in the Space Bureau or other core 

bureaus to determine if they might be 

attributed to other regulatory fee payors 

is not practicable or advisable in this 

context. The filing of comments or 

oppositions is a direct consequence of 

the filing and review of NGSO space 

station applications. Thus it is 

reasonably attributable to the NGSO 

share of the space station regulatory 

fees. We conclude, that all of these 

factors validates that the GSO/NGSO 

ratio should be adjusted to reflect that 

GSO space stations derive roughly 60% 

of the benefit from the Commission’s 

regulatory efforts and NGSO space 

stations derive roughly 40%. Finally, we 

observe that the Commission has 

repeatedly stated that ‘‘Section 9 is clear 

. . . that regulatory fee assessments are 

based on the burden imposed on the 

Commission, not benefits realized by 

regulatees.’’ We affirm that it is 

appropriate under section 9 of the Act 

for the methodology used to determine 

the allocation of space station regulatory 

fees between GSO and NGSO space 

station fee categories to focus 

exclusively on the FTE burdens 

associated with each category. 

The Commission therefore adopts this 

changed allocation of space station 

regulatory fees between GSO and NGSO 

space stations to become effective for FY 

2024. Because the change in FTE 

burdens is not the result of new fee 

categories or a different methodology, it 

is not an amendment that requires 90- 

day notice to Congress under section 

9A(b)(2) of the Act before becoming 

effective. Given that the change is a 

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FTE burdens between the two categories 

of space stations, we find it is 

appropriate to adopt the change now 

rather than to adopt it to be effective in 

a future fiscal year. Accordingly, this 

change is effective for FY 2024. 

Allocation Between NGSO—Other and 

NGSO—Less Complex 

The Commission adopts the proposal 

in the Space and Earth Station 

Regulatory Fees NPRM to maintain the 

existing allocation of the regulatory fee 

burden between ‘‘Space Stations (NonGeostationary Orbit)—Less Complex’’ 

and ‘‘Space Stations (Non-Geostationary 

Orbit)—Other’’ for FY 2024. That is, we 

maintain the existing allocation of 

allocating 20% of NGSO space station 

regulatory fees to ‘‘Space Stations (NonGeostationary Orbit)—Less Complex’’ 

and 80% to ‘‘Space Stations (NonGeostationary Orbit)—Other’’ fee 

payors. The record supports our 

tentative conclusion in the Space and 

Earth Station Regulatory Fees NPRM 

that there have not been any significant 

changes to the amount of FTE burdens 

allocated between these two fee 

categories since the ‘‘20/80’’ split of 

regulatory fees between NGSO ‘‘less 

complex’’ and NGSO ‘‘other’’ 

subcategories was adopted in 2021. 

In reaching the tentative conclusion, 

we utilized the same methodology that 

was used in 2021 to adopt the existing 

20/80 split between Less Complex and 

Other NGSO space station payors. 

Specifically, we considered the number 

of applications processed, the number of 

changes made to the Commission’s 

rules, and the number of FTEs working 

on oversight for each category of 

operators. This methodology is the same 

as used for determining the allocation of 

regulatory fees among GSO and NGSO 

space station fee payors. In evaluating 

the FTE time devoted to the ‘‘less 

complex’’ and ‘‘other’’ subcategories, we 

considered the adjudicatory role of the 

Commission in connection with 

different types of NGSO systems, which 

is typically more intensive for those 

systems authorized as part of processing 

rounds. The Commission also 

considered the number of rulemakings 

over the last three fiscal years, as well 

as current rulemakings, and which types 

of NGSO systems are implicated in 

those rulemaking activities. Applying 

this methodology, we tentatively 

concluded that that more FTE time is 

spent on the NGSO ‘‘other’’ subcategory 

than on the NGSO ‘‘less complex’’ 

subcategory, and that the relative 

regulatory burden of ‘‘less complex’’ 

space station remains consistent with 

the existing 20% allocation. 

The only party to comment on the 

tentative conclusion to preserve the 20/ 

80 split supports its adoption. We see 

no errors in our tentative conclusion 

and affirm the findings that support 

maintaining the existing allocation of 

allocating 20% of NGSO space station 

regulatory fees to ‘‘less complex’’ and 

80% to ‘‘Other’’ fee payors and, 

therefore, adopt the allocation for FY 

2024. Maintaining the 20/80 allocation 

utilizes the same methodology that was 

used to establish it in 2021 and is not 

an amendment that requires 90-day 

notice to Congress under section 

9A(b)(2) of the Act before becoming 

effective. Accordingly, our decision to 

maintain the existing 20/80 split 

between less complex and other NGSO 

space station fee payors is effective for 

FY 2024. 

Earth Station Regulatory Fees 

Earth station regulatory fees are 

assessed ‘‘per license or registration,’’ 

and each license or registration may 

include a single earth station, or 

multiple earth stations. The starting 

point for calculation of regulatory fees 

for space and earth stations is the 

number of direct FTEs in the Space 

Bureau. For FY 2024, we have a total of 

54 FTEs within the Space Bureau, 48 

direct FTEs, six indirect FTEs, and one 

indirect FTEs designated as direct, for a 

total of 49 direct FTEs. Of these 49 

direct FTEs, nine are devoted to 

oversight and regulation of earth 

stations and 40 are focused on space 

stations. As a result, the percentage of 

FTEs working on earth station tasks is 

nine out of 49, or 18.37% ($7,569,225). 

We adopt our tentative conclusion to 

apportion regulatory fees between earth 

and space station payors based on the 

percentage of direct FTEs involved in 

the licensing and regulation of each 

category. With a projected unit count of 

2,900, the FY 2024 earth station fee is 

calculated to be $2,610 per earth station 

license or authorization. Although this 

is a significant increase from the FY 

2023, most comments support the 

increase as being reflective of the actual 

allocation of FTE resources between 

space and earth station categories in the 

Space Bureau. We decline to adopt the 

proposal of commenters to allocate an 

even greater share of FTE resources to 

earth stations, up to 30%. Our analysis 

above of the direct FTE resources 

attributable to licensing and regulation 

of earth stations supports an allocation 

of 18.37%. 

The Commission also declines to 

adopt additional regulatory fee 

categories for earth stations at this time. 

The Space and Earth Station Regulatory 

Fees NPRM asked whether the 

Commission should revisit the question 

of whether to create subcategories of 

earth station regulatory fee payors, in 

addition to the existing single category 

of ‘‘Transmit/Receive & Transmit Only 

(per authorization or registration).’’ 

Comments in response express doubt 

that the creation of subcategories of 

earth stations with differing fee amounts 

is feasible, and urge that the record be 

further developed before creating 

subcategories of earth station regulatory 

fees. Other commenters argue that 

transmit/receive earth stations, 

particularly those used by broadcasters, 

should be subject to significantly lower 

regulatory fees than other types of earth 

stations, such mobile-satellite earth 

stations. We conclude that the record is 

not sufficiently developed at this time to 

adopt additional regulatory fee 

categories for earth stations. Instead, we 

will seek additional comment regarding 

the creation of additional earth station 

regulatory fee categories, as part of a 

future further notice of proposed 

rulemaking (FNPRM). 

Changing the Title of § 1.1156 

We adopt the proposal in the Space 

and Earth Station Regulatory Fees 

NPRM to change the title of § 1.1156 in 

part 1, subpart G, of our rules to make 

it clear that it contains space and earth 

station regulatory fees in addition to 

regulatory fees for international 

services. Currently, space and earth 

station regulatory fees are contained in 

§ 1.1156, which is titled ‘‘Schedule of 

regulatory fees for international 

services.’’ We adopt the proposal to 

rename this section as ‘‘Schedule of 

regulatory fees for space and 

international services’’ to reflect more 

accurately that the section contains the 

regulatory fees for space and earth 

stations, as well as the fees for 

international bearer circuits and 

submarine cables regulated by the Office 

of International Affairs. No party in the 

proceeding commented on or opposed 

the proposal. 

We make this change because, after 

the reorganization of the International 

Bureau into the Space Bureau and the 

Office of International Affairs in 2023, 

the current title can cause confusion by 

suggesting that only the fees for 

regulatory fee payors of the Office of 

International Affairs are contained 

within § 1.1156. We also conclude that 

it is easier to change the title of § 1.1156 

than to create a new section in part 1, 

subpart G, containing space and earth 

station regulatory fees. 

Other Proposals 

At this time, we take no action on 

other proposals made in the Space and 


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that have not already been adopted, 

either herein or in the Space Station 

Regulatory Fees Order. We conclude 

that action on these issues may benefit 

from further consideration. The 

Commission will seek further comment 

on these remaining proposals in the 

near future in a FNPRM. We expect to 

act on the remaining proposals in time 

to be effective for FY 2025. 

In addition, in the Space and Earth 

Station Regulatory Fees NPRM, we 

sought comment on how the 

Commission’s open proceeding on 

advancing opportunities for innovation 

in the new space age by taking measures 

to expedite the application processes for 

space stations and earth stations and 

Transparency Initiative might inform 

our consideration of the regulatory fee 

issues raised therein. In response, 

SpaceX observes that initial reforms 

over the last year were an important 

step in the right direction that 

ultimately will reduce FTE burden and 

associated fees for regulatees. It adds 

that ‘‘additional pending reforms—such 

as more flexible modification rules, 

overall shot clocks, and database 

assisted light-licensing to facilitate 

inter-service sharing—will dramatically 

reduce the number of applications that 

staff must process in the first place and 

promote more efficient review of 

applications that require staff 

attention.’’ We will consider these 

observations in the context of our 

continued efforts to streamline the 

application processes for space and 

earth stations in order to allow greater 

efficiencies in FTE resources utilized to 

license and regulate space and earth 

stations. 

Office of International Affairs 

The Office of International Affairs is 

responsible for the Commission’s 

engagement of foreign and international 

regulatory authorities, including 

multilateral and regional organizations. 

This office also facilitates the 

Commission’s development of policies 

regarding international 

telecommunications facilities and 

services, including submarine cables, 

and advises and makes 

recommendations to the Commission on 

foreign ownership issues. The Office of 

International Affairs implements 

Commission policies to facilitate 

competition and foreign investment in 

U.S. international telecommunications 

markets while ensuring, in consultation 

with relevant Federal partners, that 

national security, law enforcement, 

foreign policy, and trade policy 

concerns are addressed. This office is 

also responsible for intergovernmental 

leadership, and negotiation and 

international and inter-agency 

representational functions. This office 

oversees and coordinates the 

Commission’s global participation in 

international and multilateral 

conferences, regional organizations, 

cross-border negotiations and 

international standard setting efforts, 

and oversees bilateral meetings with 

other countries and foreign government 

officials. The Office of International 

Affairs is composed of the Global 

Strategies and Negotiation Division and 

the Telecommunications and Analysis 

Division. Among other things, the 

Global Strategies and Negotiation 

Division staff represent the Commission 

in international conferences, meetings, 

and negotiations, and manage 

Commission participation in the 

fellowship telecommunication training 

program for foreign officials offered 

through the U.S. Telecommunications 

Training Institute (USTTI) as well as the 

Commission’s International Visitors 

Program. Most of the work of the office, 

including the work of the Global 

Strategies and Negotiation Division, 

does not benefit a specific fee payor, but 

rather the government as whole, and is 

therefore appropriately categorized as 

indirect. 

Telecommunications and Analysis 

Division. The Telecommunications and 

Analysis Division develops 

international telecommunications 

policy, authorizes international 

telecommunications facilities and 

services under section 214 of the Act, 

issues submarine cable landing licenses 

under the Cable Landing License Act of 

1921 and Executive Order 10530, and 

provides expertise on foreign ownership 

issues pursuant to section 310 of the 

Act. In performing its functions, the 

division coordinates international 

applications and petitions involving 

foreign ownership with the relevant 

Executive Branch agencies for any 

national security, law enforcement, 

foreign policy, or trade policy concerns. 

The division also provides guidance to 

and shares its expertise within the 

Commission and with other U.S. 

agencies. 

Calculating regulatory fees for IBCs. 

IBCs consist of terrestrial and satellite 

circuits and submarine cable systems. In 

the FY 2020 NPRM (85 FR 32256, May 

28, 2020), we concluded, based on a 

review by the International Bureau, that 

eight FTEs should be allocated to IBCs 

for regulatory fee purposes, with the 

remaining 20 direct FTEs in the 

International Bureau allocated to the 

satellite category. Currently, in the 

Office of International Affairs, as stated 

in the FY 2024 NPRM, we find that there 

are eight FTEs within the 

Telecommunications and Analysis 

Division that work on IBC related 

issues, including the services provided 

over submarine cables, and their time 

can be appropriately categorized as 

direct in furtherance of the oversight 

and regulation of specific regulatory fee 

payors. Thus, we have the same number 

of direct FTEs devoted to IBC issues 

now as in FY 2023, when the 

Telecommunications and Analysis 

Division was in the International 

Bureau. The Commission therefore 

concludes, for FY 2024, that of the 47 

FTEs within the Office of International 

Affairs, eight are direct FTEs and 39 are 

indirect FTEs. 

Broadcast Television Stations 

In the FY 2020 Report and Order (85 

FR 59864, September 23, 2020), we 

completed the transition to a 

population-based full-service broadcast 

television regulatory fee. For FY 2024, 

the Commission will continue to assess 

fees for full-power broadcast television 

stations based on the population 

covered by a full-service broadcast 

television station’s contour and we will 

use the results of the 2020 U.S. Census. 

As a result, there will be no need to 

make any population adjustments to 

account for reductions in the population 

since 2010. However, the Commission 

will continue to base assessments on 

limiting the population count of fullpower television stations that rely on 

satellite television stations to reach 

terrain-limited areas in Puerto Rico. We 

are adopting a factor of $.006598 per 

population served for FY 2024 fullpower broadcast television station fees. 

The population data for broadcasters’ 

service areas are determined using the 

TVStudy software and the LMS 

database, based on a station’s projected 

noise-limited service contour. The 

population data for each licensee and 

the population-based fee (population 

multiplied by $.006598) for each fullpower broadcast television station is 

listed in table 8. 

Proposed New Regulatory Fee 

Categories 

The State Broadcasters proposed that 

the Commission adopt new regulatory 

fee categories for broadband internet 

access service providers and 

manufacturers of equipment that uses 

spectrum on an unlicensed basis. For 

the reasons set forth below, we are not 

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Broadband Internet Access Service 

Providers 

We are unconvinced by the State 

Broadcasters’ argument that we should 

create a new regulatory fee category for 

broadband internet access service 

providers at this time. As an initial 

matter, we note that there is no specific 

bureau or office in the Commission with 

oversight of all broadband services, 

because such activities are spread out 

among all core bureaus, and broadband 

issues are a part of many Commission 

initiatives and proceedings. We are 

unconvinced that a broadband internet 

access service provider regulatory fee 

category is necessary or that such a 

category appropriately belongs in any 

one bureau. As we have discussed 

earlier, broadband internet access 

services are offered through various 

technical means and by widely differing 

entities and to distinct user groups, e.g., 

wireless service providers, wireline 

service providers (including VoIP), 

cable operators, and satellite operators, 

to consumers and businesses, on both a 

retail and a wholesale basis. This 

service is not only offered by different 

types of providers, but is also delivered 

to end users in different ways. As we 

observed in the FY 2022 Report and 

Order (87 FR 56494, September 14, 

2022) commenters have not shown that 

a particular group of FTEs within the 

Commission is providing oversight and 

regulation for broadband internet access 

services and that other parties (besides 

these broadband internet access service 

providers) are responsible for all of the 

regulatory fees associated with those 

FTEs. It appears that the contrary is 

true: broadband internet access services 

are involved in many Commission 

initiatives and proceedings. Such 

services are in many cases offered by 

service providers regulated by all the 

core bureaus and already responsible for 

regulatory fees. Creating a new 

regulatory fee category for broadband 

internet access services appears to be 

redundant with existing fee categories 

in the case of those broadband internet 

access service providers that otherwise 

already were subject to the existing fee 

categories, and thus a new fee category 

in this regard is not administrable at this 

time. 

The State Broadcasters contend that 

broadening the base of regulatory fee 

payors to include broadband internet 

access service providers would ensure a 

more fair and sustainable regulatory fee 

system. However, they have not 

established a sufficient basis for the 

creation of such a category and that a 

broadband internet access service 

providers regulatory fee category, if 

adopted, would be fair, administrable, 

or sustainable for the reasons elaborated 

above. We also note that because the 

amount collected from each core bureau 

is based on the number of non-auctions 

FTEs in each bureau, adding a new 

broadband internet access fee category 

or categories would be unlikely to 

change the number of Media Bureau 

FTEs devoted to broadcast issues. 

Moreover, as indicated above, 

broadband internet access services are a 

part of many Commission initiatives 

and proceedings and such services are 

offered by service providers regulated 

by all the core bureaus (and these 

providers often already otherwise pay 

regulatory fees on their regulated 

services). For these reasons, particularly 

due to the lack of information in the 

record to support the need for adoption 

of such a new regulatory fee category, 

the Commission is not adopting a new 

fee category for broadband internet 

access service providers at this time. We 

find that section 9 of the Act does not 

require creation of this category and 

commenters have not shown, on the 

basis of the record in this proceeding, 

that such a category would satisfy the 

factors that the Commission has relied 

on when it has found a basis to create 

a new regulatory fee category. 

Manufacturers of Equipment That 

Operates on Spectrum on an Unlicensed 

Basis 

We also decline to adopt the State 

Broadcasters’ proposal to adopt a new 

regulatory fee category for 

manufacturers of equipment that 

operates on spectrum on an unlicensed 

basis. The State Broadcasters have not 

provided a sufficient basis, consistent 

with section 9 of the Act, for the 

adoption of such a new regulatory fee 

category. The Commission has adopted 

new fee categories based in part on the 

benefits to the payor, i.e., FTE work in 

oversight and regulation, on several 

occasions. In those instances, the 

Commission determined that significant 

FTE resources of a core bureau were 

being spent on oversight and regulatory 

activities with respect to a specific 

service necessitating a new regulatory 

fee category. Those circumstances, for 

equipment manufacturers, are not 

present here. 

The Office of Engineering and 

Technology is responsible for oversight 

and regulation of spectrum used on an 

unlicensed basis, and the FTEs in that 

office are classified as indirect FTEs 

because the work in that office benefits 

the Commission and the industry as a 

whole and is not specifically focused on 

the regulatory fee payors and licensees 

of a core bureau. Even when we 

consider only OET FTE time working on 

oversight and regulation of spectrum 

used on an unlicensed basis and 

equipment operating wholly or in part 

on such spectrum, the treatment of such 

costs as indirect is appropriate. This is 

true because many devices, including 

those operating wholly or in part on an 

unlicensed basis, are exempt from 

equipment authorization requirements. 

Moreover, devices that are not exempt 

are tested by third party labs and, if 

certification is required, applications are 

submitted to Telecommunications 

Certification Bodies. Other devices, 

generally those considered to have 

reduced potential to cause RF 

interference, are authorized pursuant to 

the Commission’s SDoC process which 

provides for the equipment to be 

authorized based on the responsible 

party’s self-declaration that the 

equipment complies with the pertinent 

Commission requirements. As such, the 

Office of Engineering and Technology 

oversight requires only a portion of FTE 

resources, appropriately part of indirect 

costs, as opposed to segregable direct 

costs. In addition, the Commission’s 

current regulatory framework does not 

include an efficient way to identify 

equipment, specifically that which is 

exempt from authorization or 

authorized pursuant to SDoC 

procedures, that operate on an 

unlicensed (as opposed to licensed) 

basis and commenters have not 

suggested an efficient methodology to 

obtain this information. 

On the basis of the record developed 

here, we find that the proposal for a new 

regulatory fee category for 

manufacturers of equipment that 

operates on spectrum on an unlicensed 

basis is not consistent with section 9 of 

the Communication Act. Equipment that 

operates on spectrum on an unlicensed 

basis is diverse in nature, ubiquitous, 

and used for many purposes including 

non-communications purposes. Thus it 

would be challenging to define and 

administer a regulatory fee category or 

categories of similarly situated entities. 

Nor does all or the majority of 

equipment that operates on spectrum on 

an unlicensed basis perform a specific 

service. Thus, focusing on the service 

provided would not provide a clear and 

administrable regulatory fee category. 

Moreover, this is not an area where time 

will distill down a clear group of users, 

service providers or manufacturers to 

form the core of a regulatory fee 

category. For example, if the 

Commission were to decide to assess 

fees on manufacturers of equipment 

used in the United States, numerous 

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The Commission establishes rules for 

and administers the equipment 

authorization program to ensure that RF 

devices used in the United States 

operate effectively without causing 

harmful interference and otherwise 

comply with the Commission’s rules. 

However, under the current 

Commission equipment authorization 

regime, the Commission does not collect 

information from or communicate with 

all device manufacturers. As we 

explained above, many devices only 

require SDoC authorization or are 

exempt from authorization because they 

pose a limited potential of causing 

harmful interference. Similarly, if users 

of equipment that operates on spectrum 

on an unlicensed forms the core of the 

fee category. The Commission has no 

reasonable means by which to 

comprehensively identify each and 

every individual or entity that operates 

RF devices on an unlicensed basis. 

Accordingly, we find that a new 

regulatory fee category for 

manufacturers of equipment that 

operates on spectrum on an unlicensed 

basis, on the basis of the instant record, 

is not practicable at this time and we 

decline to adopt such a regulatory fee 

category at this time. 

Digital Equity and Inclusion 

In the FY 2024 NPRM, we sought 

comment on how our proposals may 

promote or inhibit advances in 

diversity, equity, inclusion, and 

accessibility, as well the scope of the 

Commission’s relevant legal authority. 

We did not receive any comments on 

this issue. 

Temporary Relief Measures Under 

§§ 1.1910, 1.1166, and 1.1914 of the 

Commission’s Rules 

In FYs 2020, 2021, and 2022, the 

Commission implemented temporary 

relief measures for fee payors 

experiencing financial hardship caused 

or exacerbated by the COVID–19 

pandemic. In FY 2023, the Commission 

permanently codified two of the 

temporary measures in §§ 1.1166 and 

1.1914 of the Commission’s rules, 

simplifying and streamlining the 

process for all fee payors to obtain 

regulatory fee relief. The Commission 

also continued the remaining temporary 

relief measures in FY 2023, recognizing 

that while the National Emergency had 

ended, continuing the temporary 

measures in FY 2023 would assist 

regulatory fee payors, such as 

broadcasters, who might still be 

recovering from the economic impact of 

the pandemic. Specifically, the 

Commission found good cause to 

continue to offer a low interest rate and 

not require the customary down 

payment for installment payment of 

regulatory fee debt. Moreover, the 

Commission directed the Office of 

Managing Director to continue to 

exercise its delegated authority to 

partially waive § 1.1910 of the 

Commission’s rules to allow regulatees 

on ‘‘red light’’ and experiencing 

financial hardship to nonetheless 

request waiver, reduction, deferral, and/ 

or installment payment of their FY 2023 

regulatory fees, provided that those 

regulatees resolve all of the delinquent 

debt they owe to the Commission in 

advance of the Commission’s decision 

on their requests for relief. We also 

partially waived § 1.1166 of our rules to 

permit fee payors seeking waiver, 

deferral or reduction of their FY 2023 

regulatory fees to submit documentation 

supporting their requests after their 

underlying requests were submitted. 

However, we limited this partial waiver 

to allow only one post-filing submission 

by a deadline of January 31, 2023, in 

anticipation of a return to the normal 

operation of § 1.1166. 

In the FY 2024 NPRM, we stated that 

we did not plan to implement any of the 

foregoing temporary relief measures in 

FY 2024 because the circumstances for 

which the temporary measures were 

implemented had changed, to wit, the 

National Emergency ended and the 

economy was continuing to rebound. 

While again recognizing that some 

regulatory fee payors might continue to 

experience financial difficulties related 

to the pandemic, we concluded that the 

changes we made to §§ 1.1166 and 

1.1914 to simplify and streamline the 

process of obtaining regulatory fee relief 

offered those fee payors ‘‘a 

straightforward path to regulatory fee 

relief.’’ We asked commenters that 

disagree with our proposal to explain 

why continuing the temporary measures 

is necessary or justified, and if 

continuation requires waiving a 

Commission rule, why good cause exists 

for and the public interest would be 

served by waiving the Commission rule. 

The State Broadcasters and NAB each 

object to the Commission’s proposal to 

discontinue the remaining three 

temporary measures. NAB advocates for 

codifying each of the temporary 

measures, citing the public’s interest in 

the Commission continuing to enable 

‘‘payors and the FCC’s staff to craft 

appropriate relief and avoid costly 

collection processes and regulatory 

consequences for distressed payors.’’ 

The State Broadcasters advocate for the 

Commission to continue indefinitely the 

Commission’s partial waivers of the red 

light rule and § 1.1166. The State 

Broadcasters also propose that the 

Commission continue partial waivers of 

the red light and § 1.1166 as temporary 

measures in FY 2024. The State 

Broadcasters contend that extending the 

Commission’s partial waiver of the red 

light to permit fee payors on red light 

to nonetheless file relief requests is 

important to ensure that broadcasters in 

financial distress obtain the relief they 

seek and continue providing service to 

the public. The State Broadcasters argue 

that continuing a partial waiver of 

§ 1.1166 to permit fee payors to submit 

financial documentation after they file 

their waiver requests is warranted 

because broadcasters may not 

understand what documentary proof 

must be provided to prove financial 

hardship and permitting 

supplementation will increase fee 

payors’ likelihood of submitting 

sufficient documentary proof to prove 

financial hardship. 

We disagree that continuing the 

partial red light waiver in FY 2024 is 

vital to ensure that broadcasters in 

financial distress are able to obtain relief 

and continue operating. Even if we were 

to continue the partial waiver in FY 

2024, a broadcaster on red light would 

still be required to pay or otherwise 

resolve its debt to the Commission 

before the Commission would issue a 

decision on the broadcaster’s waiver 

requests. Restoring the normal operation 

of the red light rule does not prevent a 

broadcaster from seeking fee relief for 

FY 2024, it only requires the fee payor 

to pay or otherwise resolve its 

delinquent debt before, rather than after, 

filing a request for fee relief. 

To the extent the State Broadcasters 

also argue for a continuation of the 

Commission’s partial waiver of § 1.1166 

of our rules, we disagree that, as the 

State Broadcasters contend, the 

Commission’s standard of proof for 

establishing financial hardship is 

unclear and that fee payors should 

therefore be permitted to supplement 

their submission of financial documents 

after submitting their requests until they 

are certain that they have met their 

burden of proof. The Commission’s 

standard for establishing financial 

hardship sufficient to justify regulatory 

fee relief under § 1.1166 of the 

Commission’s rules is clear, and has not 

changed since 1995, when the 

Commission first articulated it. Since 

then, the Commission has regularly 

reminded fee payors of the standard and 

also, listed financial document types 

that fee payors might submit to prove 

financial hardship. 

To reiterate here, the standard for 

waiver, reduction and/or deferral of a 

regulatory fee in any specific instance 

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Communications Act and § 1.1166 of the 

Commission’s regulations is for good 

cause if the waiver, reduction, or 

deferral (collectively, waiver) would 

serve the public interest. We interpret 

this provision narrowly to permit only 

those waivers ‘‘unambiguously 

articulating ‘extraordinary 

circumstances’ outweighing the public 

interest in recouping the cost of the 

Commission’s regulatory services for a 

particular regulatee.’’ Within this 

standard, we recognize that in 

exceptional circumstances, financial 

hardship may justify waiving an 

individual party’s regulatory fees, to 

wit, when the requesting party has 

shown it ‘‘lacks sufficient funds to pay 

the regulatory fees and to maintain its 

service to the public.’’ Financial 

hardship, however, must be 

conclusively proven in each individual 

case; mere allegations of financial loss 

will not support a waiver request. 

Rather, each party seeking regulatory fee 

relief must fully document its financial 

condition to prove financial hardship. 

We have previously suggested and 

continue to suggest that documents that 

may be relevant to prove financial 

inability include balance sheets and 

profit and loss statements (audited if 

available), twelve month cash flow 

projections (with an explanation of how 

calculated), a list of officers and highest 

paid employees other than officers, and 

each individual’s compensation, or 

similar information. However, the 

foregoing list of documents is not 

exhaustive. In other words, a fee payor 

seeking fee relief is in the best position 

to determine, and therefore must be the 

party responsible for determining, what 

financial documents demonstrate that 

the fee payor ‘‘lacks sufficient funds to 

pay the regulatory fees and to maintain 

its service to the public.’’ 

We therefore decline to continue the 

temporary measures in FY 2024, except 

as noted below. The measures were 

always intended to be temporary, to 

address the extraordinary circumstances 

of a world-wide pandemic. The 

circumstances for which the temporary 

measures were put in place in FY 2020 

and continued in FYs 2021 through 

2023 have changed, even more so since 

FY 2023. It has now been 18 months 

year since the National Emergency 

ended. Moreover, the national economy 

is very different than it was during the 

National Emergency. Commenters have 

not demonstrated that good cause exists 

and that it is in the public interest to 

continue the partial waivers in FY 2024, 

nor have commenters made a 

convincing case that any lingering 

financial difficulties related to the 

COVID–19 pandemic that fee payors 

may be experiencing justify the 

Commission continuing to direct the 

Office of Managing Director to offer the 

lowest statutory interest rate and not 

require the customary down payment 

for installment payment of FY 2024 

regulatory fee debt. For those reasons, 

we also decline to adopt NAB’s and the 

State Broadcaster’s proposal to codify or 

continue indefinitely the temporary 

measures. 

Nonetheless, as explained below, we 

direct the Office of Managing Director to 

fix the interest rate it assesses on all 

installment payments of FY 2024 

regulatory fee debt at the lowest rate 

permitted by statute, and to not require 

the customary down payment. As we 

discuss in the Final Rules section of the 

Report and Order, structural changes to 

the Commission and the creation of the 

Space Bureau have resulted in 

significant increases in the FY 2024 

regulatory fees earth and space station 

regulatory fee payors must pay. We 

recognize that for FY 2024 some Space 

Bureau fee payors may have difficulty 

paying the increased fee in a single 

payment and that assessing the lowest 

permissible interest rate and not 

requiring the customary down payment 

will assist those payors who qualify for 

installment payment relief in meeting 

their FY 2024 regulatory fee obligation. 

These terms apply to all fee payors who 

qualify for installment payment of their 

FY 2024 regulatory fees. 

With respect to operation of the red 

light under § 1.1910 of our rules, we 

will not direct the Office of Managing 

Director to partially waive § 1.1910 to 

permit regulatory fee payors on red light 

and experiencing financial hardship to 

request waiver, reduction, deferral and/ 

or installment payment relief of their FY 

2024 regulatory fees. Instead, the 

Commission will not act on and will 

dismiss a request for waiver, reduction, 

deferral and/or installment payment 

relief filed by a fee payor if the fee payor 

is on red light, in accordance with the 

requirements of § 1.1910. 

Finally, we will not direct the Office 

of Managing Director to waive § 1.1166 

of our rules to permit parties requesting 

regulatory fee relief on financial 

hardship grounds to submit financial 

documents supporting their request 

after the waiver request is filed. Thus, 

parties seeking waiver, reduction and/or 

deferral of their regulatory fees must 

submit with their requests the financial 

documents that demonstrate financial 

hardship. Documents submitted after a 

request is filed will not be considered 

and failure to submit any supporting 

financial documents with a request will 

result in dismissal and/or denial of the 

request. 

Non-Operating Broadcast Stations 

In the FY 2024 NPRM we sought 

comment on our proposal to end a 

rarely used and never codified policy of 

granting regulatory fee waiver requests 

of stations that are or were recently 

silent and stations in their first year of 

operation recently purchased out of 

bankruptcy or recently silent, on the 

presumption that their silent or recently 

bankrupt status signifies financial 

hardship sufficient to waive their 

regulatory fees, without requiring 

submission of financial documents 

demonstrating actual financial hardship. 

NAB and the State Broadcasters 

oppose our proposal to end the policy. 

The State Broadcasters argue that the 

facts underlying the policy’s 

implementation have not changed, that 

no matter why a station goes dark, when 

it goes dark it experiences financial 

hardship that may cause it to cease 

operation altogether. NAB argues that 

the policy eliminates a financial burden 

to silent stations attempting to return to 

operating status and a barrier to 

potential investment in stations that 

were recently dark or bankrupt. Neither 

commenter however disputes nor 

addresses the Commission observation 

that the presumption underlying the 

policy is no longer accurate in FY 2024. 

As we noted in the FY 2024 NPRM, in 

today’s marketplace, broadcast licensees 

often own multiple stations. Because the 

Commission considers all of a licensee’s 

assets and revenue streams in 

determining its ability to pay regulatory 

fees, the silence of one of its stations 

does not necessarily affect the licensee’s 

ability to pay the regulatory fees it owes, 

including for the silent station. 

Similarly, it is not accurate to assume 

that, across-the-board, newly purchased 

stations that were previously dark or 

bankrupt are insufficiently financed to 

cover the station’s first year of 

operation. The station owner may very 

well have sufficient funds—other 

revenue streams or start—up financing 

to pay the station’s regulatory fees in its 

first year of operation. 

The Commission therefore concludes 

that the policy’s underlying 

presumption is no longer broadly valid 

and that the policy should be 

eliminated. Accordingly, all broadcast 

licensees, regardless of station status, 

will be required to submit with their 

waiver requests sufficient financial 

documentation to demonstrate financial 

hardship in accordance with § 1.1166 of 

our rules. This change will apply to 

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to provide the affected broadcasters time 

to comply with this change in policy. 

Capping or Phasing in Space and Earth 

Station Regulatory Fees 

As we explained above, because the 

Commission must collect the full 

amount of the appropriation as an 

offsetting collection, decreasing the fee 

on any one category must be offset with 

an increased collection in another 

category. Thus, by requesting that the 

Commission cap or phase in the 

increases in regulatory fees for space 

and earth stations, the satellite and earth 

station industry is effectively requesting 

that the Commission shift fees from 

Space Bureau regulatory fee payors to 

other regulatory fee payors. As we 

explain below, the Commission declines 

to do so. We agree with commenters 

opposing the request that shifting fees to 

other regulatees, in this instance from 

Space Bureau regulatees, when such 

fees are properly based on direct FTEs 

in the Space Bureau, is not consistent 

with Congressional direction in section 

9 of the Communications Act. 

Several commenters suggest a cap or 

phased-in approach to implementing 

substantial fee increases, alleviating the 

immediate financial burden on satellite 

and earth station fee payors, and argue 

that imposing a cap and phase in of fee 

increases for FY 2024 and beyond 

would be consistent with the statutory 

requirements of section 9 of the Act. We 

are not convinced that, based on 

commenters’ argument that the fee 

increase places a substantial and 

unforeseen financial burden on satellite 

operators, we should shift the fee 

burden to other regulatory fee payors. 

As Iridium observes, the entire industry 

will benefit from the additional 

resources made available to the new 

Space Bureau and the overall increases 

reflect the Commission’s goal of 

advancing the space economy. Although 

we are mindful of the significant 

increase in regulatory fees for most 

space and earth station regulatory fee 

payors for FY 2024, these increases 

reflect a reasonable assessment of the 

FTE burdens associated with oversight 

and regulation of the Space Bureau 

categories of fee payors after the 

reorganization of the International 

Bureau into the Space Bureau and 

Office of International Affairs and the 

additional direct FTEs added to the 

Space Bureau. 

The Submarine Cable Coalition 

favorably commented on the direct FTE 

allocations to OIA and the proposed 

regulatory fee rates for OIA regulatory 

fee payors that flow such direct FTE 

allocations. The Submarine Cable 

Coalition strongly opposes the request 

to shift fees as contrary to the statute. 

The Submarine Cable Coalition stated 

that it should not be the burden of 

submarine cable operators, nor any one 

type of international licensee under 

OIA, to subsidize holders of other 

license types. 

The Commission most recently 

addressed such a request to shift fees in 

the FY 2019 Report and Order (84 R 

50890, September 26, 2019), and 

declined a request to freeze or phase in 

the space station regulatory fee increase. 

The Commission explained there why it 

hews so closely to the statutory 

command to start with FTE counts and 

then potentially adjust fees to reflect 

other factors related to the payor’s 

benefits. In the FY 2019 Report and 

Order, the Commission noted that 

because the International Bureau had a 

relatively small number of direct FTEs, 

the increase in its percentage of the 

whole resulted in a non-trivial increase 

in fees for International Bureau 

regulates. While the increased fees were 

unwelcome by the International Bureau 

regulatees, the Commission found that 

adoption of the fees without a phase in 

was consistent with the results when 

FTE counts have shifted. 

Looking further back into our 

regulatory fee proceedings, commenters 

have observed that the Commission has 

previously phased in fee increases and 

capped annual percentage adjustments 

to avoid fee shock from large and 

unpredictable fluctuations. The two 

previous examples of caps or phase-ins 

are fundamentally different 

circumstances, i.e., after the 

Commission updated FTE data or 

adopted a new methodology, which we 

explain below. Here the increases for FY 

2024 are due to increased direct FTEs 

working on satellite and earth station 

matters. Thus, it is attributable solely to 

circumstances which were for the 

benefit of the earth station and satellite 

operators. 

In 2012, in a report issued by the 

Government Accountability Office 

(GAO), GAO explained that the FCC 

continued to rely on the 1998 division 

of regulatory fees as the basis of its 

regulatory fee division through fiscal 

year 2011. The GAO Report explained 

that for 13 years, FCC had not validated 

the extent to which its division of fees 

among industry sectors and fee 

categories correlated with its current 

division of FTEs among industry sectors 

and fee categories. This failure to update 

the Commission’s FTE analysis occurred 

when regulatory fees went from an 

offsetting collection representing 38 

percent of the Commission’s 

appropriation in 1994 to 100 percent of 

the appropriation starting in 2009. In 

correcting this serious flaw in its 

methodology noted by the GAO Report, 

and as part of a larger effort of fee 

reform, the Commission as an interim 

measure did not immediately flash cut 

to the new FTE allocation. Instead, the 

Commission in 2013 imposed a cap on 

fee increases from FY 2012 to FY 2013. 

In the FY 2013 NPRM, (78 FR 34612, 

June 10, 2013) the Commission 

proposed to cap increases in regulatory 

fees in FY 2013 to no more than 7.5%, 

acknowledging that its existing FTE 

allocations were outdated and that 

revising the allocations based on FTEs, 

without other adjustments, would 

drastically change the amount of fees 

paid by various classes of regulatees. 

The Commission also observed that 

revision of FTE allocations required a 

transition period of more than one year, 

and that the allocations made for FY 

2013 could be impacted by regulatory 

fee reform issues that could be resolved 

in future years. For this reason, the 

Commission viewed the 7.5% cap as an 

interim approach as it transitioned to a 

comprehensive revision of its regulatory 

fee program. 

The current circumstances are 

significantly different from those 

presented in 2013. The Commission is 

not currently moving from a FTE 

allocation that is thirteen years out of 

date. The increase in direct FTEs 

associated with space and earth station 

fee payors for FY 2024 does not result 

from a fundamental revision of how 

direct FTEs are calculated FCC-wide. 

Rather, the increase results from a 

greater number of FTEs being associated 

with the regulation and oversight of 

such fee payors after the reorganization 

of the International Bureau, using 

existing methodology for calculating 

FTEs. Unlike the situation in 2013, there 

is no multi-year program of reform of 

FCC-wide regulatory fees that 

necessitates a cap as an interim 

approach for transitioning to a future 

comprehensive revision of the 

regulatory fee program. Consequentially, 

the factors that supported the 

imposition of a cap in 2013 are not 

present today. Therefore, we believe 

that correcting the extraordinary error 

on the Commission’s part in applying a 

stale FTE count is not analogous to the 

current situation. 

In another instance the Commission 

limited fee increases through a revenue 

cap in 1997 in order to avoid 

unexpected, substantial increases in 

regulatory fees. This was again during 

the period of time where Congress 

raised the offsetting collection of 

regulatory fees from 38 percent in 1994 

to over 75 percent of the annual 

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was also premised as being an interim 

step in a comprehensive FCC-wide 

revision of the regulatory fee program as 

the Commission transitioned to the use 

of employee time sheet entries to 

calculate direct and indirect FTEs. This 

premise is absent under the present 

circumstances. 

Commenters also rely on a fee 

adopted for Direct Broadcast Satellite 

(DBS), initially as a subcategory of the 

cable television/internet Protocol 

Television (IPTV) fee category. Intelsat 

states that the Commission has modified 

its standard regulatory fee methodology 

to ensure that sudden and large 

increases, such as the one here, are 

mitigated in order to avoid harm to fee 

payors, such as phasing in of a new fee 

for DBS that was based on Media 

Bureau FTEs. In that instance, the 

Commission initially adopted the new 

fee category in 2015 and subsequently 

sought comment on the appropriate fee 

versus other members of the 

subcategory. Thus, each year, the agency 

sought and received comment on the 

issue. Furthermore, the only other 

categories of fee payors negatively 

affected by the phase in of DBS 

regulatory fee payments as part of the 

cable television/IPTV fee category were 

other cable and IPTV fee payors. No 

parties (other than DBS operators, 

because this was a new fee category) 

sustained a fee increase. The issue was 

where to set the regulatory fee rate for 

a new category within the Media Bureau 

between two sets of fee payors that 

benefited from the same pool of Media 

Bureau direct FTEs. Thus, the agency 

took a measured approach to discerning 

whether DBS should pay at the same 

rate as other members of the fee 

category, asking and seeking comment 

on the issue each year. This presents a 

different situation from the present 

circumstances. Moreover, in our FY 

2024 NPRM, we did not propose a fee 

schedule that included a proportionate 

shifting of fees from the Space Bureau 

into one or several categories of fee 

payors. Thus we are concerned that the 

full monetary impact of this proposal, to 

cap or phase in satellite regulatory fees, 

was not factored into our specific 

proposed fees and affected parties might 

not be in a position to understand how 

the proposal would increase their fees. 

Accordingly, we conclude that assessing 

fees in a manner that does not fully 

collect the S&E appropriation for the 

fiscal year, or that is not keyed to the 

FTE burden found to be associated with 

each category of fee payors, would be 

inconsistent with the plain language of 

section 9 of the Act. 

Several commenters urge the 

Commission to cap or phase-in the 

increases in regulatory fees assessed for 

space and earth station fee payors for FY 

2024, even if these increases result from 

a reasonable reassessment of the FY 

2024 FTE burdens associated with 

oversight and regulation of space and 

earth station payors. Intelsat proposes 

that the Commission phase in this 

increase over time by applying a cap to 

the increase in indirect FTEs 

proportionally assigned to the Space 

Bureau at 1% for FY 2024 and 20% 

every year after until the Space Bureau’s 

allocation has reached parity with the 

calculation under the Commission’s 

current methodology (which would be 

approximately five years). According to 

Intelsat, reducing the share of indirect 

costs would mitigate harm to the 

satellite industry from increased 

regulatory fees. We disagree. A cap or 

phase in of fees, whether characterized 

as a reduction in indirect costs or 

otherwise, would impose additional 

regulatory fees on all other regulatory 

fee payors, who have not received the 

benefit of additional Space Bureau 

direct FTEs devoted to oversight and 

regulation of space stations. Intelsat has 

not explained how such a shift in costs 

from one group of fee payors to another 

would be consistent with section 9, 

other than to assert that we have the 

discretion to allocate indirect costs. We 

conclude, however, that such a cap or 

phase-in would be inconsistent with our 

statutory obligation to assess and collect 

regulatory fees for each fiscal year. 

Section 9 of the Act obligates the 

Commission to assess and collect 

regulatory fees each year in an amount 

that can reasonably be expected to equal 

the amount of its annual S&E 

appropriation. Thus, the Commission 

has no discretion regarding the total 

amount to be collected in any given 

fiscal year. Even assuming this proposal 

to cap or phase in the fees would help 

mitigate the large increase assessed to 

certain Space Bureau regulatory fee 

payors, it would create a disconnect 

between other fee payors’ fees assessed 

using calculated FTE burden shares and 

those assessed using the proposed cap 

and phase in proposal. This disconnect 

is exacerbated by the fact that we did 

not propose to cap or phase in increases 

for space and earth station fee payors 

(and thus to increase or limit the 

decrease in fees assessed to other payors 

of regulatory fees) in our FY 2024 

NPRM. Further, we find that adopting 

such a cap or phase in and shifting some 

of the fee increase to other fee payors 

would result in the same crosssubsidizing situation that GAO found 

problematic in 2012. Among other 

things, GAO observed that one potential 

effect of cross subsidization is that, if 

entities in different fee categories are 

directly competing for the same 

customers, cross subsidization could 

result in competitively disadvantaging 

entities in one fee category over another. 

Section 9 of the Act prescribes a 

method of collecting an amount equal to 

the full S&E appropriation by keying the 

regulatory fee assessment to the 

Commission’s FTE burden. As a result, 

the fee assigned to each regulatory fee 

category relates to the FTE burden 

associated with oversight and regulation 

of each regulatory fee category by the 

relevant core bureaus. Section 9 does 

not provide any other basis for assessing 

regulatory fees or any basis for capping 

fees for a particular fiscal year, or 

phasing in increases in fees over several 

fiscal years, for a particular category or 

categories of fee payors. 

Installment Payments 

When the Commission adopted 

regulatory fees for FY 2023, it noted that 

it would be the last year for doing so for 

the International Bureau regulatory fee 

payors, and that the creation of the 

Space Bureau and Office of 

International Affairs could result in 

changes in the assessment of regulatory 

fees for future fiscal years. In March 

2024, in the Space and Earth Station 

Regulatory Fees NPRM, the Commission 

stated its expectation that space and 

earth station payors would pay 

significantly more in regulatory fees in 

FY 2024 than in FY 2023 due to the 

reorganization of the International 

Bureau and the creation of the Space 

Bureau. The Commission subsequently 

in June 2024 proposed estimates of the 

regulatory fee rates for space and earth 

stations that reflected significant 

increases in regulatory fees for space 

and earth stations compared to FY 2023. 

We recognize that the FY 2024 

regulatory fees adopted here for earth 

and space stations represent a 

significant increase from the FY 2023 

fees, particularly for earth station and 

NGSO space station fee payors, and 

may, for some payors, be more difficult 

to pay in a timely manner. The 

proposed regulatory fee increases are 

due to a singular and uncommon event, 

i.e., the creation and capacity-building 

of the Space Bureau—for which the 

Commission received approval from the 

White House Office of Management and 

Budget and from U.S. Congressional 

Committees on Appropriations of the 

House of Representatives and the 

Senate—to better support United States 

leadership in the emerging space 

economy. 

We, therefore, address concerns raised 

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Office of Managing Director to facilitate 

an extended period for payment, as 

appropriate, for Space Bureau regulatory 

fee payors who may have difficulty 

paying the higher FY 2024 fee. 

Specifically, consistent with the 

Commission’s policies and rules, the 

Office of Managing Director will work 

with any earth or space station fee payor 

that intends to meet its fee obligation to 

the greatest extent possible to utilize 

installment plans for payment of fees 

that it may find to be exceptionally 

higher than anticipated, e.g., any 

amount over 150% of the FY 2023 fee. 

Space Bureau regulatory fee payors who 

may have difficulty paying the FY 2024 

fee, but not to the extent required to 

request a waiver, reduction, or deferral, 

could be eligible to pay their FY 2024 

fees in installments if they are able to 

show that they cannot pay the fee in 

lump sum, but can do so with extended 

payment terms. Second, we direct the 

Office of Managing Director to fix the 

interest rate assessed on installment 

payments of FY 2024 regulatory fees at 

the lowest rate permitted by statute, and 

to not require the customary down 

payment. Finally, we remind parties 

seeking installment payment of FY 2024 

regulatory fee debt that they may do so 

by submitting an email request to the 

following email address: regfeerelief@

fcc.gov. 

Regulatory fee payors may seek a 

waiver, reduction, or deferral of 

payment of a regulatory fee for good 

cause if the waiver, reduction, or 

deferral would serve the public interest. 

But while we cannot relax the standard 

we employ for fee waiver, reduction, or 

deferral based on financial hardship 

grounds, as we have always done, we 

can facilitate an approach that allows 

payors the flexibility to address 

increases due to singular Commission 

action. 

Procedural Matters 

Included below are procedural items 

as well as our current payment and 

collection methods. We include these 

payments and collection procedures 

here as a useful way of reminding 

regulatory fee payers and the public 

about these aspects of the annual 

regulatory fee collection process. 

Commission’s Registration System. To 

increase efficiency, the Commission is 

using an all-electronic payment system 

for regulatory fees, which is contained 

within the Commission’s Registration 

System (CORES). Before using CORES 

for the first time, you must obtain an 

FCC Username through the FCC User 

Registration System, and subsequently 

use it to access CORES and either 

register an FCC Registration Number 

(FRN) or associate an existing FRN to 

your password. If you are unable to 

register electronically, you may fax your 

application for a Registration Number 

(FCC Form 160) to the CORES Helpdesk 

at (202) 418–7869 for filing procedures. 

Credit Card Transaction Levels. In 

accordance with Treasury Financial 

Manual, Volume I, Part 5, Chapter 7000, 

Section 7065.20a—Credit Card 

Collections, the total daily credit card 

transactions processed from a single 

payor can be no more than $24,999.99 

(hereinafter the ‘‘Maximum Daily 

Limit’’) and the total monthly 

transactions processed from a single 

payor (based on a rolling 30-day period) 

can be no more than $100,000.00 

(hereinafter the ‘‘Maximum Monthly 

Limit’’). Transactions greater than the 

Maximum Daily Limit will be rejected. 

If a payor initiates multiple transactions 

on the same day with the same credit 

card, those transactions causing the total 

charge to exceed the Maximum Daily 

Limit will also be rejected. This limit 

applies to single payments or bundled 

payments of more than one bill. 

Multiple transactions to a single agency 

in one day may be aggregated and 

treated as a single transaction subject to 

the $24,999.99 limit. Payors who wish 

to pay an amount greater than 

$24,999.99 should consider available 

electronic alternatives such as debit 

cards, Automates Clearing House (ACH) 

debits from a bank account, and wire 

transfers. Each of these payment options 

is available after filing regulatory fee 

information in the Commission’s 

Registration System (CORES). Further 

details will be provided regarding 

payment methods and procedures at the 

time of FY 2024 regulatory fee 

collection in Fact Sheets, https://

www.fcc.gov/regfees. 

Payment Methods. During the fee 

season for collecting regulatory fees, 

regulatees can pay their fees by credit 

card through CORES, ACH, debit card, 

or by wire transfer. Additional payment 

instructions are posted on the 

Commission’s website at https://

www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/fees/ 

wire-transfer. The receiving bank for all 

wire payments is the U.S. Treasury, 

New York, NY (TREAS NYC). Any other 

form of payment (e.g., checks, cashier’s 

checks, or money orders) will be 

rejected. For payments by wire, an FCC 

Form 159–E should still be transmitted 

via fax so that the Commission can 

associate the wire payment with the 

correct regulatory fee information. The 

fax should be sent to the Commission at 

(202) 418–2843 at least one hour before 

initiating the wire transfer (but on the 

same business day) so as not to delay 

crediting their account. Regulatees 

should discuss arrangements (including 

bank closing schedules) with their 

bankers several days before they plan to 

make the wire transfer to allow 

sufficient time for the transfer to be 

initiated and completed before the 

deadline. Complete instructions for 

making wire payments are posted at 

https://www.fcc.gov/licensingdatabases/fees/wire-transfer. 

De Minimis Regulatory Fees, Section 

9(e)(2) Exemption. Under the de 

minimis rule, and pursuant to our 

analysis under section 9(e)(2) of the Act, 

a regulatee is exempt from paying 

regulatory fees if the sum total of all of 

its annual regulatory fee liabilities is 

$1,000 or less for the fiscal year. The de 

minimis threshold applies only to filers 

of annual regulatory fees, not regulatory 

fees paid through multi-year filings, and 

it is not a permanent exemption. Each 

regulatee will need to reevaluate the 

total annual fee liability each fiscal year 

to determine whether it meets the de 

minimis exemption. 

Standard Fee Calculations and 

Payment Dates. The Commission will 

accept fee payments made in advance of 

the window for the payment of 

regulatory fees. The responsibility for 

payment of fees by service category is as 

follows: 

Media Services: Regulatory fees must 

be paid for initial construction permits 

that were granted on or before October 

1, 2023 for AM/FM radio stations, VHF/ 

UHF broadcast television stations, and 

satellite television stations. Regulatory 

fees must be paid for all broadcast 

facility licenses granted on or before 

October 1, 2023. In instances where a 

permit or license is transferred or 

assigned after October 1, 2023, 

responsibility for payment rests with the 

holder of the permit or license as of the 

fee due date. 

Wireline (Common Carrier) Services: 

Regulatory fees must be paid for 

authorizations that were granted on or 

before October 1, 2023. In instances 

where a permit or license is transferred 

or assigned after October 1, 2023, 

responsibility for payment rests with the 

holder of the permit or license as of the 

fee due date. Audio bridging service 

providers are included in this category. 

For Responsible Organizations 

(RespOrgs) that manage Toll Free 

Numbers (TFN), regulatory fees should 

be paid on all working, assigned, and 

reserved toll free numbers as well as toll 

free numbers in any other status as 

defined in § 52.103 of the Commission’s 

rules. The unit count should be based 

on toll free numbers managed by 

RespOrgs on or about December 31, 

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Wireless Services: Commercial Mobile 

Radio Service (CMRS) cellular, mobile, 

and messaging services (fees based on 

number of subscribers or telephone 

number count): Regulatory fees must be 

paid for authorizations that were 

granted on or before October 1, 2023. 

The number of subscribers, units, or 

telephone numbers on December 31, 

2023 will be used as the basis from 

which to calculate the fee payment. In 

instances where a permit or license is 

transferred or assigned after October 1, 

2023, responsibility for payment rests 

with the holder of the permit or license 

as of the fee due date. 

Wireless Services, Multi-year fees: The 

first eight regulatory fee categories in 

our Schedule of Regulatory Fees (first 

seven categories in our Calculation of 

Fees, Table 3) pay ‘‘small multi-year 

wireless regulatory fees.’’ Entities pay 

these regulatory fees in advance for the 

entire amount period covered by the 

five-year or ten-year terms of their 

initial licenses, and pay regulatory fees 

again only when the license is renewed, 

or a new license is obtained. We include 

these fee categories in our rulemaking to 

publicize our estimates of the number of 

‘‘small multi-year wireless’’ licenses 

that will be renewed or newly obtained 

in FY 2024. 

Multichannel Video Programming 

Distributor (MVPD) Services (cable 

television operators, Cable Television 

Relay Service (CARS) licensees, DBS, 

and IPTV): Regulatory fees must be paid 

for the number of basic cable television 

subscribers as of December 31, 2023. 

Regulatory fees also must be paid for 

CARS licenses that were granted on or 

before October 1, 2023. In instances 

where a permit or license is transferred 

or assigned after October 1, 2023, 

responsibility for payment rests with the 

holder of the permit or license as of the 

fee due date. For providers of DBS 

service and IPTV-based MVPDs, 

regulatory fees should be paid based on 

a subscriber count on or about 

December 31, 2023. In instances where 

a permit or license is transferred or 

assigned after October 1, 2023, 

responsibility for payment rests with the 

holder of the permit or license as of the 

fee due date. 

Space Services: Regulatory fees must 

be paid for earth stations that were 

licensed (or authorized) on or before 

October 1, 2023. Regulatory fees must 

also be paid for Geostationary orbit 

space stations (GSO) and nongeostationary orbit satellite systems 

(NGSO), and the two NGSO 

subcategories ‘‘Other’’ and ‘‘Less 

Complex,’’ that were licensed and 

operational on or before October 1, 

2023. Licensees of small satellites that 

were licensed and operational on or 

before October 1, 2023 must also pay 

regulatory fees. In instances where a 

permit or license is transferred or 

assigned after October 1, 2023, 

responsibility for payment rests with the 

holder of the permit or license as of the 

fee due date. Rendezvous and Proximity 

Operations, On-Orbit Servicing, and 

Orbital Transfer Vehicle space station 

that were licensed and operational on or 

before October 1, 2023, must also pay 

regulatory fees, using the regulatory fee 

category for small satellites, 

International Services (Submarine 

Cable Systems, Terrestrial and Satellite 

Services): Regulatory fees for submarine 

cable systems are to be paid on a per 

cable landing license basis based on lit 

circuit capacity as of December 31, 

2023. Regulatory fees for terrestrial and 

satellite IBCs are to be paid based on 

active (used or leased) international 

bearer circuits as of December 31, 2023, 

in any terrestrial or satellite 

transmission facility for the provision of 

service to an end user or resale carrier. 

When calculating the number of such 

active circuits, entities must include 

circuits used by themselves or their 

affiliates. For these purposes, ‘‘active 

circuits’’ include backup and redundant 

circuits as of December 31, 2023. 

Whether circuits are used specifically 

for voice or data is not relevant for 

purposes of determining that they are 

active circuits. In instances where a 

permit or license is transferred or 

assigned after October 1, 2023, 

responsibility for payment rests with the 

holder of the permit or license as of the 

fee due date. 

CMRS and Mobile Services 

Assessments. The Commission will 

compile data from the Numbering 

Resource Utilization Forecast (NRUF) 

report that is based on ‘‘assigned’’ 

telephone number (subscriber) counts 

that have been adjusted for porting to 

net Type 0 ports (‘‘in’’ and ‘‘out’’). We 

have included non-geographic numbers 

in the calculation of the number of 

subscribers for each CMRS provider in 

table 3 and the CMRS regulatory fee 

factor proposed in table 4. CMRS 

provider regulatory fees will be 

calculated and should be paid based on 

the inclusion of non-geographic 

numbers. CMRS providers can adjust 

the total number of subscribers, if 

needed. This information of telephone 

numbers (subscriber count) will be 

posted on CORES along with the 

carrier’s Operating Company Numbers 

(OCNs). 

A carrier wishing to revise its 

telephone number (subscriber) count 

can do so by accessing CORES and 

following the prompts to revise their 

telephone number counts. Any revisions 

to the telephone number counts should 

be accompanied by an explanation. The 

Commission will then review the 

revised count and supporting 

explanation, if any, and either approve 

or disapprove the submission in CORES. 

If the submission is disapproved, the 

Commission will contact the provider to 

afford the provider an opportunity to 

discuss its revised subscriber count and/ 

or provide supporting documentation. If 

the Commission receives no response 

from the provider, or the Commission 

does not reverse its initial disapproval 

of the provider’s revised count 

submission, the fee payment must be 

based on the number of subscribers 

listed initially in CORES. Once the 

timeframe for revision has passed, the 

telephone number counts are final and 

are the basis upon which CMRS 

regulatory fees are to be paid. Providers 

can view their final telephone counts 

online in CORES. 

Because some carriers do not file the 

NRUF report, they may not see their 

telephone number counts in CORES. In 

these instances, the carriers should 

compute their fee payment using the 

standard methodology that is currently 

in place for CMRS Wireless services 

(i.e., compute their telephone number 

counts as of December 31, 2023), and 

submit their fee payment accordingly. 

Whether a carrier reviews its telephone 

number counts in CORES or not, the 

Commission reserves the right to audit 

the number of telephone numbers for 

which regulatory fees are paid. In the 

event that the Commission determines 

that the number of telephone numbers 

that are paid is inaccurate, the 

Commission will bill the carrier for the 

difference between what was paid and 

what should have been paid. 

Effective Date. Providing a 30-day 

period after Federal Register 

publication before the Report and Order 

becomes effective as normally required 

by 5 U.S.C. 553(d) will not allow 

sufficient time to collect the FY 2024 

fees before FY 2024 ends on September 

30, 2024. For this reason, pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 553(d)(3), we find there is good 

cause to waive the requirements of 

section 553(d), and the Report and 

Order will become effective upon 

publication in the Federal Register. 

Because payments of the regulatory fees 

will not actually be due until late 

September, persons affected by the 

Report and Order will still have a 

reasonable period in which to make 

their payments and thereby comply 

with the rules established herein. 

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TABLE 2—LIST OF COMMENTERS AND REPLY COMMENTERS

Commenter (for initial and reply comments filed in response to the 

Commission’s annual FY 2024 regulatory fees NPRM, FCC 24–68 

(rel. June 13, 2024)) 

Abbreviated name Date filed 

Alabama Broadcasters Association, Alaska Broadcasters Association, Arizona 

Broadcasters Association, Arkansas Broadcasters Association, California 

Broadcasters Association, Colorado Broadcasters Association, Connecticut 

Broadcasters Association, Florida Association of Broadcasters, Georgia Association of Broadcasters, Hawaii Association of Broadcasters, Idaho State 

Broadcasters Association, Illinois Broadcasters Association, Indiana Broadcasters Association, Iowa Broadcasters Association, Kansas Association of 

Broadcasters, Kentucky Broadcasters Association, Louisiana Association of 

Broadcasters, Maine Association of Broadcasters, MD/DC/DE Broadcasters 

Association, Massachusetts Broadcasters Association, Michigan Association of 

Broadcasters, Minnesota Broadcasters Association, Mississippi Association of 

Broadcasters, Missouri Broadcasters Association, Montana Broadcasters Association, Nebraska Broadcasters Association, Nevada Broadcasters Association, 

New Hampshire Association of Broadcasters, New Jersey Broadcasters Association, New Mexico Broadcasters Association, The New York State Broadcasters Association, Inc., North Carolina Association of Broadcasters, North 

Dakota Broadcasters Association, Ohio Association of Broadcasters, Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters, Oregon Association of Broadcasters, Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters, Radio Broadcasters Association of Puerto Rico, Rhode Island Broadcasters Association, South Carolina Broadcasters 

Association, South Dakota Broadcasters Association, Tennessee Association 

of Broadcasters, Texas Association of Broadcasters, Utah Broadcasters Association, Vermont Association of Broadcasters, Virginia Association of Broadcasters, Washington State Association of Broadcasters, West Virginia Broadcasters Association, Wisconsin Broadcasters Association, Wyoming Association of Broadcasters.

State Broadcasters ........... July 15, 2024. 

Astroscale U.S., Inc .................................................................................................. Astroscale ......................... July 15, 2024. 

BlackSky Global LLC ............................................................................................... BlackSky ........................... July 15, 2024. 

Capella Space Corp ................................................................................................. Capella ............................. July 15, 2024. 

Commercial Smallsat Spectrum Management Association ..................................... CSSMA ............................. July 15, 2024. 

CTIA—The Wireless Association® ........................................................................... CTIA ................................. July 29, 2024. 

Intelsat License LLC ................................................................................................. Intelsat .............................. July 15, 2024. 

Iridium Communications, Inc .................................................................................... Iridium ............................... July 15, 2024, July 29, 2024. 

Kepler Communications, Inc .................................................................................... Kepler ............................... July 15, 2024, July 29, 2024. 

Kine ́is ........................................................................................................................ Kine ́is ................................ July 15, 2024. 

Myriota Pty. Ltd ........................................................................................................ Myriota .............................. July 15, 2024. 

National Association of Broadcasters ...................................................................... NAB .................................. July 15, 2024. 

Orbital Sidekick, Inc ................................................................................................. OSK .................................. July 29, 2024 

Satellite Industry Association ................................................................................... SIA .................................... July 29, 2024. 

Submarine Cable Coalition ...................................................................................... Coalition ............................ July 29, 2024. 

TechFreedom ........................................................................................................... TechFreedom ................... July 29, 2024. 

Tomorrow Companies, Inc ....................................................................................... Tomorrow ......................... July 15, 2024. 

WorldVu Satellites Limited and Eutelsat S.A ........................................................... Eutelsat Group ................. July 15, 2024. 

Commenter (for initial and reply comments filed in response to the Space and 

Earth Station regulatory fees NPRM, FCC 24–31 (rel. Mar. 13, 2024)) Abbreviated name Date filed 

Anuvu Licensing Holdings, LLC ............................................................................... Anuvu ............................... April, 12, 2024. 

AstroDigital U.S., Inc ................................................................................................ AstroDigital ....................... April 12, 2024. 

Astroscale U.S., Inc .................................................................................................. Astroscale ......................... April 12, 2024. 

Blue Origin, LLC ....................................................................................................... Blue Origin ........................ April 12, 2024. 

Commercial Smallsat Spectrum Management Association ..................................... CSSMA ............................. April 12, 2024. 

The Consortium for Execution of Rendezvous and Servicing Operations .............. CONFERS ........................ April 29, 2024.

EchoStar Corporation and DIRECTV, LLC .............................................................. EchoStar and DIRECTV ... April 29, 2024. 

Intelsat License LLC ................................................................................................. Intelsat .............................. April 12, 2024, April 29, 2024. 

Iridium Communications, Inc .................................................................................... Iridium ............................... April 29, 2024. 

Kepler Communications, Inc .................................................................................... Kepler ............................... April 12, 2024, April 29, 2024. 

Kine ́is ........................................................................................................................ Kine ́is ................................ April 12, 2024, April 29, 2024. 

Kuiper Systems, LLC ............................................................................................... Kuiper ............................... April 29, 2024. 

Maxar Technologies, Inc .......................................................................................... Maxar ................................ April 29, 2024. 

Myriota Pty. Ltd ........................................................................................................ Myriota .............................. April 12, 2024, April 29, 2024. 

National Association of Broadcasters ...................................................................... NAB .................................. April 29, 2024. 

NCTA—The Internet and Television Association .................................................... NCTA ................................ April 12, 2024, April 29, 2024. 

Planet Labs PBC ...................................................................................................... Planet ............................... April 12, 2024. 

SES Americom, Inc. and O3b Limited ..................................................................... SES .................................. April 12, 2024, April 29, 2024. 

Space Explorations Holdings, LLC .......................................................................... SpaceX ............................. April 12, 2024, April 29, 2024. 

Telesat Canada ........................................................................................................ Telesat .............................. April 12, 2024, April 29, 2024. 

Varda Space Industries, Inc ..................................................................................... Varda ................................ April 12, 2024. 

Vast Space, LLC ...................................................................................................... Vast .................................. April 29, 2024. 

Viasat, Inc ................................................................................................................. Viasat ................................ April 29, 2024. 


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Commenter (for initial and reply comments filed in response to the Space and 

Earth Station regulatory fees NPRM, FCC 24–31 (rel. Mar. 13, 2024)) Abbreviated name Date filed 

WorldVu Satellites Limited and Eutelsat S.A ........................................................... Eutelsat Group ................. April 12, 2024, April 29, 2024. 

Ex parte filings for FCC 24–31 and FCC 24–68 Date filed 

Letter from Jameson Dempsey, Director, Satellite Policy, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., to 

Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission (May 9, 2024) (SpaceX May 9 

ex parte).

May 9, 2024. 

Letter from W. Ray Rutngamiug, Associate General Counsel, Intelsat US LLC, to Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary, Federal Communications Commission (May 16, 2024) (Intelsat May 16 ex parte).

May 16, 2024. 

Letter from Jarett S. Taubman, VP and Deputy Chief Governmental Affairs and Regulatory Officer, 

Viasat, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission (May 16, 2024) 

(Viasat May 16 ex parte).

May 16, 2024. 

Letter from James S. Blitz, Senior Vice President, Regulatory Counsel, Sirius XM Radio, Inc., to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission (May 22, 2024) (Sirius XM May 22 

ex parte).

May 22, 2024. 

Letter from Jameson Dempsey, Director, Satellite Policy, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., to 

Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission (May 23, 2024) (SpaceX May 

23 ex parte).

May 23, 2024. 

Letter from Will Lewis, counsel to Myriota Pty. Ltd., to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission (May 28, 2024) (Myriota May 28 ex parte).May 28, 2024. 

Letter from Cynthia J. Grady, Assistant General Counsel, Intelsat US LLC, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission (May 28, 2024) (Intelsat May 28 ex parte).May 28, 2024 (erratum filed May 30, 

2024). 

Letter from Suzanne Malloy, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, O3b Limited, to Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary, Federal Communications Commission (June 7, 2024) (SES June 7 ex parte).

June 7, 2024. 

Letter from Cynthia J. Grady, Assistant General Counsel, Intelsat US LLC, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission (June 11, 2024) (Intelsat June 11 ex parte).June 11, 2024. 

Letter from Kara Leibin Azocar, Vice President, Regulatory, Iridium Satellite LLC, to Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary, Federal Communications Commission (June 13, 2024) (Iridium June 13 ex parte).

June 13, 2024. 

Letter from David S. Keir, Counsel to Kine ́is, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications 

Commission (June 17, 2024) (Kine ́is June 17 ex parte).

June 17, 2024. 

Letter from Kara Leibin Azocar, Vice President, Regulatory, Iridium Satellite LLC, to Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary, Federal Communications Commission (June 20, 2024) (Iridium June 20 ex parte).

June 20, 2024. 

Letter from Emily A. Gomes, Associate General Counsel, National Association of Broadcasters, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission (July 16, 2024) (NAB July 16 ex 

parte).

July 16, 2024. 

Letter from Polly Averns, Senior Regulatory Associate, Kepler Communications, Inc., to Marlene H. 

Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission (July 18, 2024) (Kepler July 18 ex parte).

July 18, 2024. 

Letter from Cynthia J. Grady, Assistant General Counsel, Intelsat US LLC, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission (Aug. 1, 2024) (Intelsat Aug. 1 ex parte).Aug. 1, 2024. 

Letter from Cynthia J. Grady, Assistant General Counsel, Intelsat US LLC, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission (Aug. 5, 2024) (Intelsat Aug. 5 ex parte).Aug. 5, 2024. 

Letter from Cynthia J. Grady, Assistant General Counsel, Intelsat US LLC, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission (Aug. 8, 2024) (Intelsat Aug. 8 ex parte).Aug. 8, 2024. 

Letter from J.G. Harrington, Counsel to Iridium Communications Inc., to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, 

Federal Communications Commission (Aug. 9, 2024) (Iridium Aug. 9 ex parte).

Aug. 9, 2024. 

Letter from Tom Stroup, President, Satellite Industry Association, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission (Aug. 13, 2024) (SIA Aug. 13 ex parte).Aug. 13, 2024. 

Letter from Elisabeth Neasmith, Senior Director ITU and Regulatory, Telesat, to Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary, Federal Communications Commission (Aug. 14, 2024) (Telesat Aug. 14 ex parte).

Aug. 14, 2024. 

Letter from J.G. Harrington, Counsel to Iridium Communications Inc., to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, 

Federal Communications Commission (Aug. 15, 2024) (Iridium Aug. 15 ex parte).

Aug. 15, 2024. 

Letter from J.G. Harrington, Counsel to Iridium Communications Inc., to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, 

Federal Communications Commission (Aug. 19, 2024) (Iridium Aug. 19 ex parte).

Aug. 19, 2024. 

TABLE 3—CALCULATION OF FY 2024 REGULATORY FEES—CALCULATION OF FY 2024 REVENUE REQUIREMENTS AND

PRO-RATA FEES

[Regulatory fees for the categories shaded in gray are collected by the Commission in advance to cover the term of the license and are 

submitted at the time the application is filed.] 

Fee category FY 2024 payment 

units Yrs 

FY 2023 

revenue 

estimate 

Pro-rated 

FY 2024 

revenue 

requirement 

Computed 

FY 2024 

regulatory fee 

Rounded 

FY 2024 

reg. fee 

Expected 

FY 2024 

revenue 

PLMRS (Exclusive Use) ............................................... 1,150 ...................... 10 300,000 287,500 25.00 25 287,500 

PLMRS (Shared use) ................................................... 23,300 .................... 10 1,900,000 2,330,000 10.00 10 2,330,000 

Microwave .................................................................... 16,500 .................... 10 4,000,000 4,125,000 25.00 25 4,125,000 

Marine (Ship) ................................................................ 7,000 ...................... 10 1,050,000 1,050,000 15.00 15 1,050,000 

Aviation (Aircraft) .......................................................... 5,800 ...................... 10 480,000 580,000 10.00 10 580,000 

Marine (Coast) ............................................................. 280 ......................... 10 96,000 112,000 40.00 40 112,000 

Aviation (Ground) ......................................................... 270 ......................... 10 60,000 54,000 20.00 20 54,000 

AM Class A1 ................................................................ 58 ........................... 1 286,800 266,815 4,600 4,600 266,800 

AM Class B1 ................................................................ 1,305 ...................... 1 3,556,605 3,310,685 2,537 2,535 3,308,175 


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TABLE 3—CALCULATION OF FY 2024 REGULATORY FEES—CALCULATION OF FY 2024 REVENUE REQUIREMENTS AND

PRO-RATA FEES—Continued 

[Regulatory fees for the categories shaded in gray are collected by the Commission in advance to cover the term of the license and are 

submitted at the time the application is filed.] 

Fee category FY 2024 payment 

units Yrs 

FY 2023 

revenue 

estimate 

Pro-rated 

FY 2024 

revenue 

requirement 

Computed 

FY 2024 

regulatory fee 

Rounded 

FY 2024 

reg. fee 

Expected 

FY 2024 

revenue 

AM Class C 1 ................................................................ 784 ......................... 1 1,273,910 1,185,436 1,512 1,510 1,183,840 

AM Class D 1 ................................................................ 1,325 ...................... 1 4,208,245 3,916,079 2,956 2,955 3,915,375 

FM Classes A, B1 & C3 1 ............................................. 3,021 ...................... 1 8,885,560 8,257,752 2,733 2,735 8,262,435 

FM Classes B, C, C0, C1 & C2 1 ................................. 3,064 ...................... 1 10,872,945 10,111,573 3,300 3,300 10,111,200 

AM Construction Permits 2 ........................................... 2 ............................. 1 3,100 1,170 585 585 1,170 

FM Construction Permits 2 ........................................... 14 ........................... 1 17,360 14,350 1,025 1,025 14,350 

Digital Television 4 (including Satellite TV) .................. 3.541 billion population.1 25,463,735 23,365,758 .0065978 .006598 23,363,518 

Digital TV Construction Permits 2 ................................. 5 ............................. 1 20,400 26,000 5,200 5,200 26,000 

LPTV/Class A/Translators FM Trans/Boosters ............ 6,215 ...................... 1 1,644,500 1,515,832 243.9 245 1,522,675 

CARS Stations ............................................................. 105 ......................... 1 206,400 191,414 1,823 1,825 191,625 

Cable TV Systems, including IPTV & DBS .................. 50,000,000 ............. 1 68,880,000 63,587,626 1.2718 1.27 63,500,000 

Interstate Telecommunication Service Providers ......... $22,700,000,000 .... 1 135,540,000 122,977,045 0.005420 0.005420 123,034,000 

Toll Free Numbers ....................................................... 35,000,000 ............. 1 4,511,000 4,225,547 0.1207 0.12 4,200,000 

CMRS Mobile Services (Cellular/Public Mobile) .......... 576,200,000 ........... 1 88,480,000 90,358,789 0.1568 0.16 92,192 ,000 

CMRS Messaging Services ......................................... 600,000 .................. 1 104,000 48,000 0.0800 0.080 48,000 

BRS/ ............................................................................. 1,200 ...................... 1 836,500 870,000 725 725 870,000 

LMDS ........................................................................... 370 ......................... 1 252,000 268,250 725 725 268,250 

Per Gbps circuit Int’l Bearer Circuits Terrestrial (Common & Non-Common) & Satellite (Common & NonCommon).20,000 .................... 1 442,000 335,565 16.78 17 340,000 

Submarine Cable Providers (See chart at bottom of 

table 4) 3.

71.56 ...................... 1 8,228,605 6,375,737 89,096 89,095 6,375,638 

Earth Stations ............................................................... 2,900 ...................... 1 1,667,500 7,569,225 2,610 2,610 7,569,000 

Space Stations (Geostationary) ................................... 140 ......................... 1 15,990,880 20,181,854 144,156 144,155 20,181,700 

Space Stations (Non-Geostationary, Other) ................ 11 ........................... 1 3,129,795 10,606,205 964,200 964,200 10,606,200 

Space Stations (Non-Geostationary, Less Complex) .. 6 ............................. 1 782,430 2,651,551 441,925 441,925 2,651,550 

Space Stations (Non-Geostationary, Small Satellite) .. 16 ........................... 1 85,505 195,440 12,215 12,215 195,440 

****** Total Estimated Revenue to be Collected ... ................................. ........ 392,991,324 389,914,238 ........................ ...................... 392,795,910 

****** Total Revenue Requirement ........................ ................................. ........ 390,192,000 390,192,000 ........................ ...................... 390,192,000 

Difference ....................................................... ................................. ........ 2,799,324 (277,762) ........................ ...................... 2,603,910 

1The fee amounts listed in the column entitled ‘‘Rounded New FY 2024 Regulatory Fee’’ constitute a weighted average broadcast regulatory fee by class of service. The actual FY 2024 regulatory fees for AM/FM radio station are listed on a grid located at the end of table 4. 2The AM and FM Construction Permit revenues and the Digital (VHF/UHF) Construction Permit revenues were adjusted, respectively, to set the regulatory fee to 

an amount no higher than the lowest licensed fee for that class of service based on the threshold 10,001–25,000, the traditional basis for identifying the lowest licensed fee. Reductions in the Digital (VHF/UHF) Construction Permit revenues, and in the AM and FM Construction Permit revenues, were offset by increases in the 

revenue totals for Digital television stations by market size, and in the AM and FM radio stations by class size and population served, respectively. 3The chart at the end of table 4 lists the actual submarine cable bearer circuit regulatory fee rates (on a common and non-common carrier basis), whereas the submarine cable fee rate in table 3 is a weighted average. 4The actual digital television regulatory fees to be paid by call sign are identified in table 8. 

TABLE 4—SCHEDULE OF FEES—FY 2024 SCHEDULE OF REGULATORY FEES

[Regulatory fees for the categories shaded in gray are collected by the Commission in advance to cover the term of the license and are 

submitted at the time the application is filed.] 

Fee category Annual regulatory fee 

(U.S. $s) 

PLMRS (per license) (Exclusive Use) (47 CFR part 90) .......................................... 25. 

Microwave (per license) (47 CFR part 101) ............................................................. 25. 

Marine (Ship) (per station) (47 CFR part 80) ........................................................... 15. 

Marine (Coast) (per license) (47 CFR part 80) ........................................................ 40. 

Rural Radio (47 CFR part 22) (previously listed under the Land Mobile category) 10. 

PLMRS (Shared Use) (per license) (47 CFR part 90) ............................................. 10. 

Aviation (Aircraft) (per station) (47 CFR part 87) ..................................................... 10. 

Aviation (Ground) (per license) (47 CFR part 87) .................................................... 20. 

CMRS Mobile/Cellular Services (per unit) (47 CFR parts 20, 22, 24, 27, 80, and 

90) (Includes Non-Geographic telephone numbers).

.16. 

CMRS Messaging Services (per unit) (47 CFR parts 20, 22, 24, and 90) .............. .08. 

Broadband Radio Service (formerly MMDS/MDS) (per license) (47 CFR part 27) 725. 

Local Multipoint Distribution Service (per call sign) (47 CFR part 101) ................... 725. 

AM Radio Construction Permits ................................................................................ 585. 

FM Radio Construction Permits ................................................................................ 1,025. 

AM and FM Broadcast Radio Station Fees .............................................................. See Table Below. 

Digital TV (47 CFR part 73) VHF and UHF Commercial Fee Factor ....................... $.006598. 

See table 8 for fee amounts due, also available at https://

www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/fees/regulatory-fees. 

Digital TV Construction Permits ................................................................................ 5,200. 


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TABLE 4—SCHEDULE OF FEES—FY 2024 SCHEDULE OF REGULATORY FEES—Continued 

[Regulatory fees for the categories shaded in gray are collected by the Commission in advance to cover the term of the license and are 

submitted at the time the application is filed.] 

Fee category Annual regulatory fee 

(U.S. $s) 

Low Power TV, Class A TV, TV/FM Translators & FM Boosters (47 CFR ..............

part 74) ......................................................................................................................

245. 

CARS (47 CFR part 78) ............................................................................................ 1,825. 

Cable Television Systems (per subscriber) (47 CFR part 76), Including IPTV and 

Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS).

1.27. 

Interstate Telecommunication Service Providers (per revenue dollar) ..................... .005420. 

Toll Free (per toll free subscriber) (47 CFR 52.101(f)) ............................................. .12. 

Earth Stations (47 CFR part 25) ............................................................................... 2,610. 

Space Stations (per operational station in geostationary orbit) (47 CFR part 25) 

also includes DBS Service (per operational station) (47 CFR part 100).

144,155. 

Space Stations (per operational system in non-geostationary orbit) (47 CFR part 

25) (Other).

964,200. 

Space Stations (per operational system in non-geostationary orbit) (47 CFR part 

25) (Less Complex).

441,925. 

Space Stations (per license/call sign in non-geostationary orbit) (47 CFR part 25) 

(Small Satellite).

12,215. 

International Bearer Circuits—Terrestrial/Satellites (per Gbps circuit) ..................... $17. 

Submarine Cable Landing Licenses Fee (per cable system) .................................. See Table Below. 

FY 2024 RADIO STATION REGULATORY FEES

Population 

served AM Class A AM Class B AM Class C AM Class D FM Classes A, B1 & C3 

FM Classes 

B, C, C0, 

C1 & C2 

≤10,000 .................................................... $560 $405 $350 $385 $615 $700 

10,001–25,000 ......................................... 935 675 585 645 1,025 1,170 

25,001–75,000 ......................................... 1,405 1,015 880 970 1,540 1,755 

75,001–150,000 ....................................... 2,105 1,520 1,315 1,450 2,305 2,635 

150,001–500,000 ..................................... 3,160 2,280 1,975 2,180 3,465 3,955 

500,001–1,200,000 .................................. 4,730 3,415 2,960 3,265 5,185 5,920 

1,200,001–3,000,000 ............................... 7,105 5,130 4,445 4,900 7,790 8,890 

3,000,001–6,000,000 ............................... 10,650 7,690 6,665 7,345 11,675 13,325 

>6,000,000 ............................................... 15,980 11,535 10,000 11,025 17,515 19,995 

FY 2024 INTERNATIONAL BEARER CIRCUITS—SUBMARINE CABLE SYSTEMS

Submarine cable systems 

(capacity as of December 31, 2023) 

Fee ratio 

(units) 

FY 2024 

regulatory fees 

Less than 50 Gbps ............................................................................................................................................ .0625 $5,570 

50 Gbps or greater, but less than 250 Gbps .................................................................................................... .125 11,140 

250 Gbps or greater, but less than 1,500 Gbps ............................................................................................... .25 22,275 

1,500 Gbps or greater, but less than 3,500 Gbps ............................................................................................ .5 44,550 

3,500 Gbps or greater, but less than 6,500 Gbps ............................................................................................ 1.0 89,095 

6,500 Gbps or greater ....................................................................................................................................... 2.0 178,190 

Table 5—Sources of FY 2024 Payment 

Units 

Sources of Payment Unit Estimates for 

FY 2024 

In order to calculate individual 

service fees for FY 2024, we adjusted FY 

2023 payment units for each service to 

more accurately reflect expected FY 

2024 payment liabilities. We obtained 

our updated estimates through a variety 

of means and sources. For example, we 

used Commission licensee data bases, 

actual prior year payment records and 

industry and trade association 

projections, where available. The 

databases we consulted include our 

Universal Licensing System (ULS), 

International Bureau Filing System 

(IBFS), Licensing and Management 

System (LMS) and Cable Operations and 

Licensing System (COALS), as well as 

reports generated within the 

Commission such as the Wireless 

Telecommunications Bureau’s 

Numbering Resource Utilization 

Forecast. Regulatory fee payment units 

are not all the same for all fee categories. 

For most fee categories, the term ‘‘units’’ 

reflect licenses or permits that have 

been issued, but for other fee categories, 

the term ‘‘units’’ reflect quantities such 

as subscribers, population counts, 

circuit counts, telephone numbers, and 

revenues. As more current data is 

received after an NPRM is released, the 

Commission sometimes adjusts the 

NPRM fee rates to reflect the new 

information in the Report and Order. 

This is intended to make sure that the 

fee rates in the Report and Order reflect 

more recent and accurate information. 

We realize that by adjusting the unit 

counts as more accurate information is 

received may adjust the fee rates for 

certain regulatory fee categories. Certain 

entities that collect the fees from 

customers in advance in order to pay 


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the Commission, such as Cable and DBS 

companies, ITSP providers, Cell Phone 

and Toll-Free providers, to name a few, 

may need to adjust their billings to 

customers as the Commission adjusts its 

fee rates. As a result, the Commission 

understands that these adjustments are 

necessary so that these regulatees can 

recover their fee obligations from their 

customers. 

We sought verification for these 

estimates from multiple sources and, in 

all cases, we compared FY 2024 

estimates with actual FY 2023 payment 

units to ensure that our revised 

estimates were reasonable. Where 

appropriate, we adjusted and/or 

rounded our final estimates to take into 

consideration the fact that certain 

variables that impact on the number of 

payment units cannot yet be estimated 

with sufficient accuracy. These include 

an unknown number of waivers and/or 

exemptions that may occur in FY 2024 

and the fact that, in many services, the 

number of actual licensees or station 

operators fluctuates from time to time 

due to economic, technical, or other 

reasons. When we note, for example, 

that our estimated FY 2024 payment 

units are based on FY 2023 actual 

payment units, it does not necessarily 

mean that our FY 2024 projection is 

exactly the same number as in FY 2023. 

We have either rounded the FY 2024 

number or adjusted it slightly to account 

for these variables. 

Fee category Sources of payment unit estimates 

Land Mobile (All), Microwave, Marine (Ship & Coast), Aviation (Aircraft 

& Ground), Domestic Public Fixed.

Based on Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) information as 

well as prior year payment information. Estimates have been adjusted to take into consideration the licensing of portions of these 

services. 

CMRS Cellular/Mobile Services ............................................................... Based on WTB projection reports, and FY 2023 payment data. 

CMRS Messaging Services ...................................................................... Based on WTB reports, and FY 2023 payment data. 

AM/FM Radio Stations ............................................................................. Based on downloaded LMS data, adjusted for exemptions, and actual 

FY 2023 payment units. 

Digital TV Stations (Combined VHF/UHF units) ...................................... Based on LMS data, fee rate adjusted for exemptions, and population 

figures are calculated based on individual station parameters. 

AM/FM/TV Construction Permits .............................................................. Based on LMS data, adjusted for exemptions, and actual FY 2023 payment units. 

LPTV, Translators and Boosters, Class A Television .............................. Based on LMS data, adjusted for exemptions, and actual FY 2023 payment units. 

BRS (formerly MDS/MMDS)LMDS ........................................................... Based on WTB reports and actual FY 2023 payment units. Based on 

WTB reports and actual FY 2023 payment units. 

Cable Television Relay Service (CARS) Stations .................................... Based on cable trend data, data from the Media Bureau’s COALS 

database, and actual FY 2023 payment units. 

Cable Television System Subscribers, Including IPTV Subscribers ........ Based on publicly available data sources for estimated subscriber 

counts, trend information from past payment data, and actual FY 

2023 payment units. 

Interstate Telecommunication Service Providers ..................................... Based on FCC Form 499–A worksheets due in April 2024, and any 

data assistance provided by the Wireline Competition Bureau. 

Earth Stations ........................................................................................... Based on International Bureau licensing data and actual FY 2023 payment units. 

Space Stations (GSOs & NGSOs) ........................................................... Based on International Bureau data reports and actual FY 2023 payment units. 

International Bearer Circuits ..................................................................... Based on assistance provided by the International Bureau, any data 

submissions by licensees, adjusted as necessary, and actual FY 

2023 payment units. 

Submarine Cable Licenses ...................................................................... Based on International Bureau license information, and actual FY 2023 

payment units. 

Table 6—Measurements That 

Determine Signal Contours and 

Population Coverages 

Factors, Measurements, and 

Calculations That Determine Station 

Signal Contours and Associated 

Population Coverages 

AM Stations 

For stations with nondirectional 

daytime antennas, the theoretical 

radiation was used at all azimuths. For 

stations with directional daytime 

antennas, specific information on each 

day tower, including field ratio, phase, 

spacing, and orientation was retrieved, 

as well as the theoretical pattern rootmean-square of the radiation in all 

directions in the horizontal plane (RMS) 

figure (milliVolt per meter (mV/m) @ 1 

km) for the antenna system. The 

standard, or augmented standard if 

pertinent, horizontal plane radiation 

pattern was calculated using techniques 

and methods specified in §§ 73.150 and 

73.152 of the Commission’s rules. 

Radiation values were calculated for 

each of 360 radials around the 

transmitter site. Next, estimated soil 

conductivity data was retrieved from a 

database representing the information in 

FCC Figure R3. Using the calculated 

horizontal radiation values, and the 

retrieved soil conductivity data, the 

distance to the principal community (5 

mV/m) contour was predicted for each 

of the 360 radials. The resulting 

distance to principal community 

contours were used to form a 

geographical polygon. Population 

counting was accomplished by 

determining which 2020 block centroids 

were contained in the polygon. (A block 

centroid is the center point of a small 

area containing population as computed 

by the U.S. Census Bureau.) The sum of 

the population figures for all enclosed 

blocks represents the total population 

for the predicted principal community 

coverage area. 

FM Stations 

The greater of the horizontal or 

vertical effective radiated power (ERP) 

(kW) and respective height above 

average terrain (HAAT) (m) combination 

was used. Where the antenna height 

above mean sea level (HAMSL) was 

available, it was used in lieu of the 

average HAAT figure to calculate 

specific HAAT figures for each of 360 

radials under study. Any available 

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applied as well, to produce a radialspecific ERP figure. The HAAT and ERP 

figures were used in conjunction with 

the Field Strength (50–50) propagation 

curves specified in 47 CFR 73.313 to 

predict the distance to the principal 

community (70 dBu (decibel above 1 

microVolt per meter) or 3.17 mV/m) 

contour for each of the 360 radials. The 

resulting distance to principal 

community contours were used to form 

a geographical polygon. Population 

counting was accomplished by 

determining which 2020 block centroids 

were contained in the polygon. The sum 

of the population figures for all enclosed 

blocks represents the total population 

for the predicted principal community 

coverage area. 

TABLE 7—LISTING OF SPACE STATIONS—SATELLITE CHARTS FOR FY 2024 REGULATORY FEES—SPACE STATIONS

(GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT): U.S.-LICENSED SPACE STATIONS

Licensee Call sign Satellite name Type 

Astranis Projects USA LLC .............................................. S3092 ARCTURUS ..................................................................... GSO. 

Open Plaza Corp .............................................................. S2922 SKY–B1 ............................................................................ GSO. 

DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC .............................................. S2640 DIRECTV D11 .................................................................. GSO. 

DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC .............................................. S2869 DIRECTV D14 .................................................................. GSO. 

DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC .............................................. S2632 DIRECTV D8 .................................................................... GSO. 

DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC .............................................. S2669 DIRECTV D9S ................................................................. GSO. 

DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC .............................................. S2641 DIRECTV D10 .................................................................. GSO. 

DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC .............................................. S2797 DIRECTV D12 .................................................................. GSO. 

DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC .............................................. S2930 DIRECTV D15 .................................................................. GSO. 

DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC .............................................. S2673 DIRECTV D5 .................................................................... GSO. 

Alascom, Inc ..................................................................... S2133 SPACEWAY 2 .................................................................. GSO. 

DIRECTV Enterprises, LLC .............................................. S3039 DIRECTV D16 .................................................................. GSO. 

DISH Operating L.L.C ....................................................... S2931 ECHOSTAR 18 ................................................................ GSO. 

DISH Operating L.L.C ....................................................... S2738 ECHOSTAR 11 ................................................................ GSO. 

DISH Operating L.L.C ....................................................... S2694 ECHOSTAR 10 ................................................................ GSO. 

DISH Operating L.L.C ....................................................... S2790 ECHOSTAR 14 ................................................................ GSO. 

EchoStar Satellite Operating Corporation ........................ S2811 ECHOSTAR 15 ................................................................ GSO. 

EchoStar Satellite Operating Corporation ........................ S2844 ECHOSTAR 16 ................................................................ GSO. 

EchoStar Satellite Services L.L.C .................................... S2179 ECHOSTAR 9 .................................................................. GSO. 

EchoStar BSS Corp .......................................................... S3093 ECHOSTAR 23 ................................................................ GSO. 

ES 172 LLC ...................................................................... S2610 EUTELSAT 174A ............................................................. GSO. 

ES 172 LLC ...................................................................... S3021 EUTELSAT 172B ............................................................. GSO. 

Horizon-3 Satellite LLC ..................................................... S2947 HORIZONS–3e ................................................................ GSO. 

Hughes Network Systems, LLC ....................................... S2663 SPACEWAY 3 .................................................................. GSO. 

Hughes Network Systems, LLC ....................................... S2834 ECHOSTAR 19 ................................................................ GSO. 

Hughes Network Systems, LLC ....................................... S2753 ECHOSTAR XVII ............................................................. GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC/Viasat, Inc ....................................... S2160 GALAXY 28 ...................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2414 INTELSAT 10–02 ............................................................. GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2972 INTELSAT 37e ................................................................. GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2854 NSS–7 .............................................................................. GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2409 INELSAT 905 ................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2405 INTELSAT 901 ................................................................. GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2408 INTELSAT 904 ................................................................. GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2804 INTELSAT 25 ................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2959 INTELSAT 35e ................................................................. GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2237 INTELSAT 11 ................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2785 INTELSAT 14 ................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2380 INTELSAT 9 ..................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2831 INTELSAT 23 ................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2915 INTELSAT 34 ................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2863 INTELSAT 21 ................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2750 INTELSAT 16 ................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2715 GALAXY 17 ...................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2253 GALAXY 11 ...................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2381 GALAXY 3C ..................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2887 INTELSAT 30 ................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2924 INTELSAT 31 ................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2647 GALAXY 19 ...................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2687 GALAXY 16 ...................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2733 GALAXY 18 ...................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2385 GALAXY 14 ...................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2386 GALAXY 13 ...................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S3083 GALAXY 34 ...................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S3015 GALAXY 33 ...................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S3016 GALAXY 30 ...................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S3076 GALAXY 31 ...................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S3078 GALAXY 32 ...................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S3148 GALAXY 36 ...................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S3164 GALAXY 37 ...................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2704 INTELSAT 5 ..................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2817 INTELSAT 18 ................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2850 INTELSAT 19 ................................................................... GSO. 


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TABLE 7—LISTING OF SPACE STATIONS—SATELLITE CHARTS FOR FY 2024 REGULATORY FEES—SPACE STATIONS

(GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT): U.S.-LICENSED SPACE STATIONS—Continued 

Licensee Call sign Satellite name Type 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2368 INTELSAT 1R .................................................................. GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2789 INTELSAT 15 ................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2423 HORIZONS 2 ................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2846 INTELSAT 22 ................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2847 INTELSAT 20 ................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2948 INTELSAT 36 ................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2814 INTELSAT 17 ................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2410 INTELSAT 906 ................................................................. GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2406 INTELSAT 902 ................................................................. GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2939 INTELSAT 33e ................................................................. GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2382 INTELSAT 10 ................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S2751 INTELSAT 28 ................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S3023 INTELSAT 39 ................................................................... GSO. 

Intelsat License LLC ......................................................... S3066 INTELSAT 40e ................................................................. GSO. 

Ligado Networks Subsidiary, LLC .................................... S2358 SKYTERRA–1 .................................................................. GSO. 

Ligado Networks Subsidiary, LLC .................................... AMSC–1 MSAT–2 ........................................................................... GSO. 

Novavision Group, Inc ...................................................... S2861 DIRECTV KU–79W .......................................................... GSO. 

Satellite CD Radio LLC .................................................... S2812 FM–6 ................................................................................ GSO. 

SES Americom, Inc .......................................................... S2415 NSS–10 ............................................................................ GSO. 

SES Americom, Inc .......................................................... S2162 AMC–3 ............................................................................. GSO. 

SES Americom, Inc .......................................................... S2347 AMC–6 ............................................................................. GSO. 

SES Americom, Inc .......................................................... S2826 SES–2 .............................................................................. GSO. 

SES Americom, Inc .......................................................... S2807 SES–1 .............................................................................. GSO. 

SES Americom, Inc .......................................................... S2180 AMC–15 ........................................................................... GSO. 

SES Americom, Inc .......................................................... S2892 SES–3 .............................................................................. GSO. 

SES Americom, Inc .......................................................... S3097/S3138 SES–19/SES–22 .............................................................. GSO. 

SES Americom, Inc .......................................................... S3099 SES–21 ............................................................................ GSO. 

Silkwave Africa, LLC ......................................................... S3074 AsiaStar ............................................................................ GSO. 

Sirius XM Radio Inc .......................................................... S2710 FM–5 ................................................................................ GSO. 

Sirius XM Radio Inc .......................................................... S3034/S2617/ 

S2616/S3033 

SXM–8/XM–3/XM–4/SXM–7 ............................................ GSO. 

Skynet Satellite Corp ........................................................ S2933 TELSTAR 12V .................................................................. GSO. 

Skynet Satellite Corporation ............................................. S2357 TELSTAR 11N ................................................................. GSO. 

ViaSat, Inc ........................................................................ S2747 VIASAT–1 ......................................................................... GSO. 

ViaSat, Inc ........................................................................ S3050/S917 VIASAT–89US/VIASAT–3 ................................................ GSO. 

XM Radio LLC .................................................................. S2786 XM–5 ................................................................................ GSO. 

SPACE STATIONS (GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT): NON-U.S.-LICENSED SPACE STATIONS—MARKET ACCESS THROUGH PETITION

FOR DECLARATORY RULING

Licensee Call sign Satellite name Type 

ABS Global Ltd ................................................................. S2987 ABS–3A ............................................................................ GSO. 

Avanti Hylas 2 Ltd ............................................................ S3130 HYLAS–4 .......................................................................... GSO. 

DBSD Services Ltd ........................................................... S2651 DBSD G1 ......................................................................... GSO. 

Embratel TVSAT Telecomunicacoes S.A ......................... S3142 Star One D2 ..................................................................... GSO. 

Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales S.A .......... S2956 ARSAT–2 ......................................................................... GSO. 

Embratel Tvsat Telecommunicacoes S.A ........................ S2678 STAR ONE C2 ................................................................. GSO. 

Embratel Tvsat Telecommunicacoes S.A ........................ S2845 STAR ONE C3 ................................................................. GSO. 

Eutelsat S.A ...................................................................... S3056 EUTELSAT 8 WEST B .................................................... GSO. 

Eutelsat S.A ...................................................................... S3055 EUTELSAT 139 WEST A ................................................ GSO. 

Gamma Acquisition L.L.C ................................................. S2633 TerreStar 1 ....................................................................... GSO. 

Hispamar Sate ́lites, S.A .................................................... S2793 AMAZONAS–2 ................................................................. GSO. 

Hispamar Sate ́lites, S.A .................................................... S2886 AMAZONAS–3 ................................................................. GSO. 

Hispamar Sate ́lites, S.A .................................................... S3086 AMAZONAS NEXUS ........................................................ GSO. 

Hispasat, S.A .................................................................... S2969 HISPASAT 30W–6 ........................................................... GSO. 

Inmarsat PLC .................................................................... S2932 Inmarsat-4 F3 ................................................................... GSO. 

Inmarsat PLC .................................................................... S2949 Inmarsat-3 F5 ................................................................... GSO. 

New Skies Satellites B.V .................................................. S2756 NSS–9 .............................................................................. GSO. 

New Skies Satellites B.V .................................................. S2870 SES–6 .............................................................................. GSO. 

New Skies Satellites B.V .................................................. S3048 NSS–6 .............................................................................. GSO. 

New Skies Satellites B.V .................................................. S2828 SES–4 .............................................................................. GSO. 

New Skies Satellites B.V. ................................................. S2950 SES–10 ............................................................................ GSO. 

Satelites Mexicanos, S.A. de C.V .................................... S2695 EUTELSAT 113 WEST A ................................................ GSO. 

Satelites Mexicanos, S.A. de C.V .................................... S2926 EUTELSAT 117 WEST B ................................................ GSO. 

Satelites Mexicanos, S.A. de C.V .................................... S2938 EUTELSAT 115 WEST B ................................................ GSO. 

Satelites Mexicanos, S.A. de C.V .................................... S2873 EUTELSAT 117 WEST A ................................................ GSO. 

SES Satellites (Gibraltar) Ltd ........................................... S2676 AMC 21 ............................................................................ GSO. 

SES Satellites (Gibraltar) Ltd ........................................... S2951 SES–15 ............................................................................ GSO. 

SES Americom, Inc .......................................................... S3037 NSS–11 ............................................................................ GSO. 


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Licensee Call sign Satellite name Type 

SES Americom, Inc .......................................................... S2964 SES–11 ............................................................................ GSO. 

SES–17 S.a.r.l .................................................................. S3043 SES–17 ............................................................................ GSO. 

Telesat Brasil Capacidade de Satelites Ltda ................... S2821 ESTRELA DO SUL 2 ....................................................... GSO. 

Telesat Canada ................................................................ S2745 ANIK F1 ............................................................................ GSO. 

Telesat Canada ................................................................ S2674 ANIK F1R ......................................................................... GSO. 

Telesat Canada ................................................................ S2703 ANIK F3 ............................................................................ GSO. 

Telesat Canada ................................................................ S2472 ANIK F2 ............................................................................ GSO. 

Telesat International Ltd ................................................... S2955 TELSTAR 19 VANTAGE .................................................. GSO. 

Viasat, Inc ......................................................................... S2902 VIASAT–2 ......................................................................... GSO. 

SPACE STATIONS (GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT): NON-U.S.-LICENSED SPACE STATIONS—MARKET ACCESS THROUGH EARTH

STATION LICENSES

Licensee Call sign Satellite name Type 

APSTAR VI ............................................... APSTAR 6 ................................................. M292090 ...................................... GSO. 

AUSSAT B 152E ....................................... OPTUS D2 ................................................ M221170 ...................................... GSO. 

Ciel Satellite Group ................................... Ciel-2 ......................................................... E050029 ...................................... GSO. 

DISH Operating LLC ................................. Quetzsat-1 ................................................. E090020 ...................................... GSO. 

Eutelsat 65 West A ................................... Eutelsat 65 West A ................................... E160081 ...................................... GSO. 

INMARSAT 4F1 ........................................ INMARSAT 4F1 ........................................ KA25 ............................................ GSO. 

INMARSAT 5F2 ........................................ INMARSAT 5F2 ........................................ E120072 ...................................... GSO. 

INMARSAT 5F3 ........................................ INMARSAT 5F3 ........................................ E150028 ...................................... GSO. 

JCSAT–2B ................................................. JCSAT–2B ................................................. M174163 ...................................... GSO. 

NIMIQ 5 ..................................................... NIMIQ 5 ..................................................... E080107 ...................................... GSO. 

WILDBLUE–1 ............................................ WILDBLUE–1 ............................................ E040213 ...................................... GSO. 

SPACE STATIONS (PER LICENSE/CALL SIGN IN NON-GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT) (SMALL SATELLITE) 

ITU name 

(if available) Common name Call sign Type 

Capella Space Corp .................................. Capella-2, Capella-3, Capella-4 ................ S3073 .......................................... Small Satellite. 

Capella Space Corp .................................. Capella-5, Capella-6 ................................. S3080 .......................................... Small Satellite. 

Capella Space Corp .................................. Capella-7, Capella-8 ................................. S3100 .......................................... Small Satellite. 

Capella Space Corp .................................. Acadia-1 .................................................... S3162 .......................................... Small Satellite. 

Launcher, Inc ............................................ Orbiter SN3 ............................................... S3161 .......................................... Small Satellite. 

Loft Orbital Solutions Inc ........................... YAM–3 ....................................................... S3072 .......................................... Small Satellite. 

Loft Orbital Solutions Inc ........................... YAM–5 ....................................................... S3147 .......................................... Small Satellite. 

Turion Space Corp .................................... DROID.001 ................................................ S3146 .......................................... Small Satellite. 

R2 Space, Inc ........................................... XR–1 ......................................................... S3067 .......................................... Small Satellite. 

ICEYE US, Inc .......................................... ICEYE ........................................................ S3082 .......................................... Small Satellite. 

Umbra Lab Inc .......................................... Umbra SAR ............................................... S3095 .......................................... Small Satellite. 

ICEYE US, Inc .......................................... ICEYE Second Tranche ............................ S3165 .......................................... Small Satellite. 

Space Logistics, LLC ................................ Mission Extension Vehicle-1 ..................... S2990 .......................................... RPO/OOS. 

Space Logistics, LLC ................................ Mission Extension Vehicle-2 ..................... S3059 .......................................... RPO/OOS. 

Momentus Space, LLC ............................. Vigoride-5 .................................................. S3144 .......................................... OTV. 

Momentus Space, LLC ............................. Vigoride-6 .................................................. S3154 .......................................... OTV. 

Spaceflight, Inc .......................................... Sherpa-AC1 ............................................... S3133 .......................................... OTV. 

SPACE STATIONS (NON-GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT)—LESS COMPLEX

ITU name 

(if available) Common name Call sign Type 

Planet Labs ............................................... Flock/Skysats ............................................ S2912 .......................................... Less Complex. 

Maxar License ........................................... WorldView 1, 2 & 3, GeoEye-1 ................. S2129/S2348 ............................... Less Complex. 

BlackSky Global ........................................ Global ........................................................ S3032 .......................................... Less Complex. 

Orbital Sidekick, Inc .................................. GHOSt ....................................................... S3139 .......................................... Less Complex. 

Hawkeye 360 ............................................ HE360 ....................................................... S3042 .......................................... Less Complex. 

Spire Global .............................................. LEMUR & MINAS ...................................... S2946/S3045 ............................... Less Complex. 


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SPACE STATIONS (NON-GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT)—OTHER

ITU name 

(if available) Common name Call sign Type 

ORBCOMM License Corp ......................... ORBCOMM ............................................... S2103 .......................................... Other. 

Iridium Constellation LLC .......................... IRIDIUM ..................................................... S2110 .......................................... Other. 

Telesat Canada ......................................... TELESAT Ku/Ka-Band .............................. S2976 .......................................... Other. 

Kepler Communications, Inc ..................... KEPLER .................................................... S2981 .......................................... Other. 

Myriota Pty. Ltd ......................................... MYRIOTA .................................................. S3047 .......................................... Other. 

O3b Ltd ..................................................... O3b ............................................................ S2935 .......................................... Other. 

Globalstar License LLC ............................. GLOBALSTAR .......................................... S2115 .......................................... Other. 

Space Exploration Holdings, LLC ............. SPACEX/Ku/KaBand ................................. S2983/S3018 ............................... Other. 

Space Exploration Holdings, LLC ............. SPACEX/GEN 2 ........................................ S3069 .......................................... Other. 

Swarm Technologies, Inc .......................... SWARM ..................................................... S3041 .......................................... Other. 

WorldVu Satellites Ltd ............................... ONEWEB .................................................. S2963 .......................................... Other. 

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SIGN

Facility Id. Call sign 

Service area Terrain limited Terrain limited 

Population Population Fee amount 

3246 ....................................................... KAAH–TV .............................................. 1,018,897 939,246 $ 6,197 

18285 ..................................................... KAAL ..................................................... 605,222 580,564 3,831 

11912 ..................................................... KAAS–TV .............................................. 243,984 243,947 1,610 

56528 ..................................................... KABB ..................................................... 3,017,860 3,000,477 19,797 

282 ......................................................... KABC–TV .............................................. 18,303,336 17,670,502 116,590 

1236 ....................................................... KACV–TV .............................................. 383,228 383,071 2,528 

33261 ..................................................... KADN–TV .............................................. 889,583 889,583 5,869 

8263 ....................................................... KAEF–TV .............................................. 139,510 124,133 819 

2728 ....................................................... KAET ..................................................... 4,867,739 4,836,434 31,911 

2767 ....................................................... KAFT ..................................................... 1,294,492 1,218,670 8,041 

62442 ..................................................... KAID ...................................................... 864,547 857,276 5,656 

4145 ....................................................... KAII–TV ................................................. 203,698 179,435 1,184 

67494 ..................................................... KAIL ....................................................... 2,091,288 2,061,175 13,600 

13988 ..................................................... KAIT ...................................................... 594,090 583,749 3,852 

40517 ..................................................... KAJB ..................................................... 393,654 393,355 2,595 

65522 ..................................................... KAKE ..................................................... 821,488 816,811 5,389 

804 ......................................................... KAKM .................................................... 397,237 395,241 2,608 

148 ......................................................... KAKW–DT ............................................. 3,350,876 3,242,159 21,392 

51598 ..................................................... KALB–TV ............................................... 933,915 932,500 6,153 

51241 ..................................................... KALO ..................................................... 1,018,088 971,631 6,411 

40820 ..................................................... KAMC .................................................... 411,973 411,949 2,718 

8523 ....................................................... KAMR–TV ............................................. 377,485 377,410 2,490 

65301 ..................................................... KAMU–TV ............................................. 395,784 392,044 2,587 

2506 ....................................................... KAPP ..................................................... 337,194 298,159 1,967 

3658 ....................................................... KARD .................................................... 680,743 678,724 4,478 

23079 ..................................................... KARE ..................................................... 4,243,145 4,234,439 27,939 

33440 ..................................................... KARK–TV .............................................. 1,243,813 1,230,366 8,118 

37005 ..................................................... KARZ–TV .............................................. 1,153,588 1,134,221 7,484 

32311 ..................................................... KASA–TV .............................................. 1,198,361 1,159,350 7,649 

41212 ..................................................... KASN ..................................................... 1,200,705 1,185,725 7,823 

7143 ....................................................... KASW .................................................... 4,828,272 4,813,078 31,757 

55049 ..................................................... KASY–TV .............................................. 1,182,887 1,143,258 7,543 

33471 ..................................................... KATC ..................................................... 1,376,057 1,376,057 9,079 

13813 ..................................................... KATN ..................................................... 95,520 95,197 628 

21649 ..................................................... KATU ..................................................... 3,400,708 3,238,560 21,368 

33543 ..................................................... KATV ..................................................... 1,285,451 1,265,986 8,353 

50182 ..................................................... KAUT–TV .............................................. 1,810,654 1,809,428 11,939 

21488 ..................................................... KAUU .................................................... 398,876 396,486 2,616 

6864 ....................................................... KAUZ–TV .............................................. 366,943 365,162 2,409 

73101 ..................................................... KAVU–TV .............................................. 323,202 322,961 2,131 

49579 ..................................................... KAWB .................................................... 193,767 193,705 1,278 

49578 ..................................................... KAWE .................................................... 139,854 137,788 909 

58684 ..................................................... KAYU–TV .............................................. 925,282 861,276 5,683 

29234 ..................................................... KAZA–TV .............................................. 15,481,136 14,233,993 93,916 

17433 ..................................................... KAZD ..................................................... 8,087,952 8,085,339 53,347 

776273 ................................................... KAZF ..................................................... 253,785 188,057 1,241 

1151 ....................................................... KAZQ ..................................................... 1,137,703 1,126,947 7,436 

35811 ..................................................... KAZT–TV ............................................... 495,353 409,112 2,699 

4148 ....................................................... KBAK–TV .............................................. 1,626,532 1,363,867 8,999 

16940 ..................................................... KBCA ..................................................... 465,218 465,157 3,069 

53586 ..................................................... KBCB ..................................................... 1,510,168 1,478,647 9,756 


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SIGN—Continued 

Facility Id. Call sign 

Service area Terrain limited Terrain limited 

Population Population Fee amount 

22685 ..................................................... KBDI–TV ............................................... 4,731,715 4,335,180 28,604 

56384 ..................................................... KBEH ..................................................... 18,512,098 18,476,669 121,909 

65395 ..................................................... KBFD–DT .............................................. 1,016,508 887,671 5,857 

169030 ................................................... KBGS–TV .............................................. 176,432 173,977 1,148 

61068 ..................................................... KBHE–TV .............................................. 153,390 144,914 956 

48556 ..................................................... KBIM–TV ............................................... 226,233 226,194 1,492 

29108 ..................................................... KBIN–TV ............................................... 1,014,918 1,013,041 6,684 

33658 ..................................................... KBJR–TV ............................................... 278,564 274,572 1,812 

83306 ..................................................... KBLN–TV .............................................. 322,286 145,745 962 

63768 ..................................................... KBLR ..................................................... 2,280,730 2,220,879 14,653 

53324 ..................................................... KBME–TV .............................................. 146,149 146,082 964 

10150 ..................................................... KBMT .................................................... 799,217 798,262 5,267 

22121 ..................................................... KBMY .................................................... 142,682 142,622 941 

49760 ..................................................... KBOI–TV ............................................... 869,688 862,287 5,689 

55370 ..................................................... KBRR .................................................... 154,408 154,405 1,019 

66414 ..................................................... KBSD–DT .............................................. 151,986 151,901 1,002 

66415 ..................................................... KBSH–DT .............................................. 97,884 95,916 633 

19593 ..................................................... KBSI ...................................................... 730,259 728,325 4,805 

66416 ..................................................... KBSL–DT .............................................. 47,462 46,328 306 

4939 ....................................................... KBSV ..................................................... 1,535,281 1,424,913 9,402 

62469 ..................................................... KBTC–TV .............................................. 4,319,699 4,228,861 27,902 

61214 ..................................................... KBTV–TV .............................................. 771,692 771,692 5,092 

6669 ....................................................... KBTX–TV .............................................. 5,354,551 5,351,089 35,306 

35909 ..................................................... KBVO .................................................... 1,911,833 1,684,206 11,112 

58618 ..................................................... KBVU ..................................................... 136,908 121,846 804 

6823 ....................................................... KBYU–TV .............................................. 2,838,181 2,620,447 17,290 

33756 ..................................................... KBZK ..................................................... 156,388 139,258 919 

21422 ..................................................... KCAL–TV .............................................. 18,258,912 17,586,821 116,038 

11265 ..................................................... KCAU–TV .............................................. 769,096 754,352 4,977 

14867 ..................................................... KCBA ..................................................... 3,334,176 2,557,080 16,872 

27507 ..................................................... KCBD .................................................... 433,372 432,694 2,855 

9628 ....................................................... KCBS–TV .............................................. 18,628,137 17,359,665 114,539 

49750 ..................................................... KCBY–TV .............................................. 92,825 77,624 512 

33710 ..................................................... KCCI ...................................................... 1,216,146 1,209,219 7,978 

9640 ....................................................... KCCW–TV ............................................. 294,831 287,246 1,895 

63158 ..................................................... KCDO–TV ............................................. 3,305,368 3,160,730 20,854 

62424 ..................................................... KCDT ..................................................... 807,726 762,258 5,029 

83913 ..................................................... KCEB ..................................................... 446,377 445,850 2,942 

57219 ..................................................... KCEC .................................................... 4,497,531 4,237,580 27,960 

10245 ..................................................... KCEN–TV .............................................. 2,224,490 2,174,193 14,345 

13058 ..................................................... KCET ..................................................... 17,868,933 16,310,676 107,618 

18079 ..................................................... KCFW–TV ............................................. 196,292 157,001 1,036 

132606 ................................................... KCGE–DT ............................................. 129,244 129,244 853 

60793 ..................................................... KCHF ..................................................... 1,157,628 1,127,207 7,437 

33722 ..................................................... KCIT ...................................................... 392,243 391,646 2,584 

62468 ..................................................... KCKA ..................................................... 1,082,723 906,771 5,983 

41969 ..................................................... KCLO–TV .............................................. 150,949 145,392 959 

47903 ..................................................... KCNC–TV .............................................. 4,460,509 4,175,114 27,547 

71586 ..................................................... KCNS .................................................... 9,007,762 8,012,556 52,867 

33742 ..................................................... KCOP–TV .............................................. 18,134,022 17,318,605 114,268 

19117 ..................................................... KCOS .................................................... 1,092,982 1,092,792 7,210 

63165 ..................................................... KCOY–TV .............................................. 700,154 478,768 3,159 

33894 ..................................................... KCPQ .................................................... 5,131,164 4,985,829 32,896 

53843 ..................................................... KCPT ..................................................... 2,690,171 2,688,808 17,741 

33875 ..................................................... KCRA–TV .............................................. 11,608,107 7,153,845 47,201 

9719 ....................................................... KCRG–TV ............................................. 1,174,546 1,156,435 7,630 

60728 ..................................................... KCSD–TV .............................................. 323,237 323,093 2,132 

59494 ..................................................... KCSG .................................................... 229,899 220,818 1,457 

33749 ..................................................... KCTS–TV .............................................. 4,848,434 4,778,758 31,530 

41230 ..................................................... KCTV ..................................................... 2,732,197 2,730,443 18,015 

58605 ..................................................... KCVU .................................................... 700,745 689,702 4,551 

10036 ..................................................... KCWC–DT ............................................. 42,872 38,501 254

64444 ..................................................... KCWE .................................................... 2,642,880 2,641,432 17,428 

51502 ..................................................... KCWI–TV .............................................. 1,152,163 1,151,070 7,595 

42008 ..................................................... KCWO–TV ............................................. 55,411 55,383 365

166511 ................................................... KCWV .................................................... 210,633 210,626 1,390 

24316 ..................................................... KCWX .................................................... 4,947,756 4,941,660 32,605 

68713 ..................................................... KCWY–DT ............................................. 85,085 84,715 559

22201 ..................................................... KDAF ..................................................... 7,951,276 7,949,040 52,448 


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SIGN—Continued 

Facility Id. Call sign 

Service area Terrain limited Terrain limited 

Population Population Fee amount 

33764 ..................................................... KDBC–TV .............................................. 1,101,513 1,097,028 7,238 

79258 ..................................................... KDCK .................................................... 43,010 42,993 284 

166332 ................................................... KDCU–DT ............................................. 773,823 773,808 5,106 

38375 ..................................................... KDEN–TV .............................................. 3,968,060 3,943,641 26,020 

17037 ..................................................... KDFI ...................................................... 7,990,955 7,989,287 52,713 

33770 ..................................................... KDFW .................................................... 7,962,141 7,959,855 52,519 

29102 ..................................................... KDIN–TV ............................................... 1,193,740 1,189,191 7,846 

25454 ..................................................... KDKA–TV .............................................. 3,569,162 3,428,192 22,619 

60740 ..................................................... KDKF ..................................................... 73,619 66,137 436 

4691 ....................................................... KDLH ..................................................... 267,326 264,686 1,746 

41975 ..................................................... KDLO–TV .............................................. 214,024 213,819 1,411 

55379 ..................................................... KDLT–TV ............................................... 700,230 689,305 4,548 

55375 ..................................................... KDLV–TV .............................................. 98,101 97,673 644 

25221 ..................................................... KDMD .................................................... 394,250 391,278 2,582 

78915 ..................................................... KDMI ..................................................... 1,248,443 1,247,337 8,230 

56524 ..................................................... KDNL–TV .............................................. 3,013,924 3,009,244 19,855 

24518 ..................................................... KDOC–TV ............................................. 18,264,021 17,379,123 114,667 

1005 ....................................................... KDOR–TV ............................................. 1,180,603 1,177,894 7,772 

60736 ..................................................... KDRV .................................................... 551,809 469,537 3,098 

61064 ..................................................... KDSD–TV .............................................. 65,355 60,171 397 

53329 ..................................................... KDSE ..................................................... 52,777 51,188 338 

56527 ..................................................... KDSM–TV ............................................. 1,202,702 1,201,866 7,930 

49326 ..................................................... KDTN ..................................................... 7,901,133 7,898,922 52,117 

83491 ..................................................... KDTP ..................................................... 25,965 23,729 157 

33778 ..................................................... KDTV–DT .............................................. 8,697,794 7,750,134 51,135 

67910 ..................................................... KDTX–TV .............................................. 7,985,188 7,983,676 52,676 

126 ......................................................... KDVR .................................................... 4,301,541 4,144,268 27,344 

18084 ..................................................... KECI–TV ............................................... 228,161 210,560 1,389 

51208 ..................................................... KECY–TV .............................................. 407,175 403,848 2,665 

58408 ..................................................... KEDT ..................................................... 527,343 527,343 3,479 

55435 ..................................................... KEET ..................................................... 181,333 161,389 1,065 

37103 ..................................................... KEKE ..................................................... 105,022 101,614 670 

41983 ..................................................... KELO–TV .............................................. 767,130 715,437 4,720 

34440 ..................................................... KEMO–TV ............................................. 9,007,762 8,012,556 52,867 

776162 ................................................... KEMS .................................................... 55,920 54,847 362 

2777 ....................................................... KEMV .................................................... 634,060 576,758 3,805 

26304 ..................................................... KENS ..................................................... 3,091,086 3,077,749 20,307 

63845 ..................................................... KENV–DT .............................................. 52,294 45,932 303 

18338 ..................................................... KENW .................................................... 85,762 85,762 566 

50591 ..................................................... KEPB–TV .............................................. 631,758 574,973 3,794 

56029 ..................................................... KEPR–TV .............................................. 515,354 493,941 3,259 

49324 ..................................................... KERA–TV .............................................. 7,984,381 7,981,440 52,662 

40878 ..................................................... KERO–TV .............................................. 1,387,245 1,257,683 8,298 

61067 ..................................................... KESD–TV .............................................. 172,302 165,214 1,090 

25577 ..................................................... KESQ–TV .............................................. 1,487,393 615,803 4,063 

50205 ..................................................... KETA–TV .............................................. 1,874,445 1,860,161 12,273 

62182 ..................................................... KETC ..................................................... 2,945,200 2,942,622 19,415 

37101 ..................................................... KETD ..................................................... 3,918,776 3,879,692 25,598 

2768 ....................................................... KETG ..................................................... 421,357 403,179 2,660 

12895 ..................................................... KETH–TV .............................................. 7,296,694 7,296,428 48,142 

55643 ..................................................... KETK–TV .............................................. 1,072,485 1,071,097 7,067 

2770 ....................................................... KETS ..................................................... 1,209,518 1,191,713 7,863 

53903 ..................................................... KETV ..................................................... 1,491,674 1,486,408 9,807 

92872 ..................................................... KETZ ..................................................... 505,102 502,310 3,314 

68853 ..................................................... KEYC–TV .............................................. 553,554 539,853 3,562 

33691 ..................................................... KEYE–TV .............................................. 3,533,479 3,444,549 22,727 

60637 ..................................................... KEYT–TV .............................................. 1,466,777 1,275,243 8,414 

83715 ..................................................... KEYU ..................................................... 351,434 351,403 2,319 

34406 ..................................................... KEZI ...................................................... 1,221,893 1,166,907 7,699 

34412 ..................................................... KFBB–TV .............................................. 96,782 95,488 630 

125 ......................................................... KFCT ..................................................... 967,548 960,099 6,335 

51466 ..................................................... KFDA–TV .............................................. 394,744 393,695 2,598 

22589 ..................................................... KFDM .................................................... 770,621 770,609 5,084 

48521 ..................................................... KFDR ..................................................... 672,350 657,307 4,337 

65370 ..................................................... KFDX–TV .............................................. 367,320 366,583 2,419 

49264 ..................................................... KFFV ..................................................... 4,674,758 4,634,964 30,581 

12729 ..................................................... KFFX–TV ............................................... 467,787 463,006 3,055 

83992 ..................................................... KFJX ...................................................... 709,125 679,797 4,485 

42122 ..................................................... KFMB–TV .............................................. 4,239,135 3,914,207 25,826 


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Facility Id. Call sign 

Service area Terrain limited Terrain limited 

Population Population Fee amount 

53321 ..................................................... KFME .................................................... 442,176 441,664 2,914 

74256 ..................................................... KFNB ..................................................... 84,543 83,990 554 

21613 ..................................................... KFNE ..................................................... 53,059 52,392 346 

21612 ..................................................... KFNR ..................................................... 9,724 9,457 62 

66222 ..................................................... KFOR–TV .............................................. 1,789,693 1,789,342 11,806 

33716 ..................................................... KFOX–TV .............................................. 1,107,424 1,097,251 7,240 

41517 ..................................................... KFPH–DT .............................................. 385,474 313,720 2,070 

81509 ..................................................... KFPX–TV .............................................. 1,072,290 1,072,222 7,075 

31597 ..................................................... KFQX ..................................................... 197,918 173,495 1,145 

59013 ..................................................... KFRE–TV .............................................. 1,850,426 1,835,478 12,110 

51429 ..................................................... KFSF–DT .............................................. 7,986,866 7,039,241 46,445 

66469 ..................................................... KFSM–TV .............................................. 1,003,012 978,896 6,459 

8620 ....................................................... KFSN–TV .............................................. 1,973,852 1,957,279 12,914 

29560 ..................................................... KFTA–TV ............................................... 907,937 894,593 5,903 

83714 ..................................................... KFTC ..................................................... 64,284 64,250 424 

60537 ..................................................... KFTH–DT .............................................. 7,287,908 7,287,530 48,083 

60549 ..................................................... KFTR–DT .............................................. 18,326,526 16,971,273 111,976 

61335 ..................................................... KFTS ..................................................... 77,847 66,866 441 

81441 ..................................................... KFTU–DT .............................................. 109,271 105,476 696 

34439 ..................................................... KFTV–DT .............................................. 1,930,415 1,914,464 12,632 

664 ......................................................... KFVE ..................................................... 91,164 81,417 537 

592 ......................................................... KFVS–TV .............................................. 867,835 847,638 5,593 

29015 ..................................................... KFWD .................................................... 7,970,373 7,964,229 52,548 

35336 ..................................................... KFXA ..................................................... 914,357 912,893 6,023 

17625 ..................................................... KFXB–TV .............................................. 377,548 370,365 2,444 

70917 ..................................................... KFXK–TV .............................................. 969,012 966,868 6,379 

84453 ..................................................... KFXL–TV ............................................... 977,327 976,428 6,442 

56079 ..................................................... KFXV ..................................................... 1,335,643 1,335,643 8,813 

41427 ..................................................... KFYR–TV .............................................. 153,218 150,858 995 

25685 ..................................................... KGAN .................................................... 1,121,266 1,109,006 7,317 

34457 ..................................................... KGBT–TV .............................................. 1,350,104 1,350,004 8,907 

7841 ....................................................... KGCW ................................................... 938,174 935,835 6,175 

24485 ..................................................... KGEB .................................................... 1,257,918 1,224,797 8,081 

34459 ..................................................... KGET–TV .............................................. 982,744 940,071 6,203 

53320 ..................................................... KGFE ..................................................... 120,237 120,237 793 

7894 ....................................................... KGIN ...................................................... 235,875 233,749 1,542 

83945 ..................................................... KGLA–DT .............................................. 1,754,806 1,754,806 11,578 

34445 ..................................................... KGMB .................................................... 1,016,756 907,381 5,987 

58608 ..................................................... KGMC .................................................... 2,076,523 2,052,808 13,544 

36914 ..................................................... KGMD–TV ............................................. 101,247 100,762 665 

36920 ..................................................... KGMV .................................................... 209,577 175,904 1,161 

10061 ..................................................... KGNS–TV .............................................. 283,777 274,877 1,814 

34470 ..................................................... KGO–TV ................................................ 9,406,080 8,630,291 56,943 

56034 ..................................................... KGPE .................................................... 1,829,902 1,812,936 11,962 

81694 ..................................................... KGPX–TV .............................................. 792,059 724,592 4,781 

25511 ..................................................... KGTF ..................................................... 155,729 154,491 1,019 

40876 ..................................................... KGTV ..................................................... 4,257,568 3,912,037 25,812 

36918 ..................................................... KGUN–TV ............................................. 1,479,221 1,292,183 8,526 

34874 ..................................................... KGW ...................................................... 3,397,112 3,239,730 21,376 

63177 ..................................................... KGWC–TV ............................................. 84,597 84,117 555

63162 ..................................................... KGWL–TV ............................................. 37,314 37,199 245

63166 ..................................................... KGWN–TV ............................................. 558,685 528,237 3,485 

63170 ..................................................... KGWR–TV ............................................. 49,435 49,242 325

4146 ....................................................... KHAW–TV ............................................. 102,381 101,946 673 

60353 ..................................................... KHBS ..................................................... 610,455 588,263 3,881 

27300 ..................................................... KHCE–TV .............................................. 2,848,289 2,842,696 18,756 

26431 ..................................................... KHET ..................................................... 1,022,459 1,009,772 6,662 

21160 ..................................................... KHGI–TV ............................................... 245,331 244,515 1,613 

36917 ..................................................... KHII–TV ................................................. 1,017,217 907,842 5,990 

29085 ..................................................... KHIN ...................................................... 1,137,059 1,135,866 7,494 

17688 ..................................................... KHME .................................................... 196,002 194,233 1,282 

47670 ..................................................... KHMT .................................................... 193,159 188,714 1,245 

47987 ..................................................... KHNE–TV .............................................. 205,833 204,923 1,352 

34867 ..................................................... KHNL ..................................................... 1,016,725 907,350 5,987 

60354 ..................................................... KHOG–TV ............................................. 862,177 797,810 5,264 

4144 ....................................................... KHON–TV ............................................. 1,016,508 944,271 6,230 

34529 ..................................................... KHOU .................................................... 7,289,635 7,287,991 48,086 

4690 ....................................................... KHQA–TV .............................................. 299,409 298,038 1,966 

34537 ..................................................... KHQ–TV ................................................ 938,773 887,184 5,854 


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Population Population Fee amount 

30601 ..................................................... KHRR .................................................... 1,298,625 1,241,818 8,194 

34348 ..................................................... KHSD–TV .............................................. 203,077 199,032 1,313 

24508 ..................................................... KHSL–TV .............................................. 634,956 615,388 4,060 

69677 ..................................................... KHSV ..................................................... 2,384,812 2,343,597 15,463 

64544 ..................................................... KHVO .................................................... 101,138 99,980 660 

23394 ..................................................... KIAH ...................................................... 7,307,171 7,306,816 48,210 

34564 ..................................................... KICU–TV ............................................... 8,992,796 7,837,235 51,710 

56028 ..................................................... KIDK ...................................................... 351,335 348,794 2,301 

58560 ..................................................... KIDY ...................................................... 126,096 126,079 832 

53382 ..................................................... KIEM–TV ............................................... 177,885 166,501 1,099 

66258 ..................................................... KIFI–TV ................................................. 370,169 365,995 2,415 

16950 ..................................................... KIFR ...................................................... 2,356,175 2,330,021 15,373 

10188 ..................................................... KIII ......................................................... 580,363 577,602 3,811 

29095 ..................................................... KIIN ....................................................... 1,405,103 1,375,871 9,078 

34527 ..................................................... KIKU ...................................................... 1,017,227 920,837 6,076 

63865 ..................................................... KILM ...................................................... 18,009,859 16,478,550 108,725 

56033 ..................................................... KIMA–TV ............................................... 325,241 275,599 1,818 

66402 ..................................................... KIMT ...................................................... 671,281 662,859 4,374 

67089 ..................................................... KINC ...................................................... 2,320,873 2,230,933 14,720 

34847 ..................................................... KING–TV ............................................... 4,735,386 4,686,752 30,923 

51708 ..................................................... KINT–TV ................................................ 1,093,579 1,093,227 7,213 

26249 ..................................................... KION–TV ............................................... 2,602,418 906,539 5,981 

62427 ..................................................... KIPT ...................................................... 190,856 189,839 1,253 

66781 ..................................................... KIRO–TV ............................................... 4,715,994 4,685,383 30,914 

62430 ..................................................... KISU–TV ............................................... 358,145 353,319 2,331 

12896 ..................................................... KITU–TV ................................................ 749,934 749,934 4,948 

64548 ..................................................... KITV ...................................................... 1,016,508 890,101 5,873 

59255 ..................................................... KIVI–TV ................................................. 864,257 856,996 5,654 

47285 ..................................................... KIXE–TV ................................................ 484,629 444,405 2,932 

13792 ..................................................... KJJC–TV ............................................... 85,813 84,995 561 

14000 ..................................................... KJLA ...................................................... 18,725,198 17,464,578 115,231 

20015 ..................................................... KJNP–TV ............................................... 96,266 96,001 633 

53315 ..................................................... KJRE ..................................................... 15,414 15,394 102 

59439 ..................................................... KJRH–TV .............................................. 1,475,194 1,458,401 9,623 

55364 ..................................................... KJRR ..................................................... 45,707 44,148 291 

7675 ....................................................... KJTL ...................................................... 365,659 365,242 2,410 

55031 ..................................................... KJTV–TV ............................................... 426,315 426,302 2,813 

13814 ..................................................... KJUD ..................................................... 32,087 31,083 205 

36607 ..................................................... KJZZ–TV ............................................... 2,837,622 2,620,561 17,290 

83180 ..................................................... KKAI ...................................................... 1,016,756 995,859 6,571 

58267 ..................................................... KKAP ..................................................... 1,002,980 967,770 6,385 

24766 ..................................................... KKCO .................................................... 218,313 183,190 1,209 

776228 ................................................... KKEL ..................................................... 396,796 390,474 2,576 

35097 ..................................................... KKJB ..................................................... 780,452 775,264 5,115 

22644 ..................................................... KKPX–TV .............................................. 8,265,775 7,324,470 48,327 

35037 ..................................................... KKTV ..................................................... 3,340,505 2,899,502 19,131 

35042 ..................................................... KLAS–TV ............................................... 2,421,827 2,256,225 14,887 

52907 ..................................................... KLAX–TV ............................................... 350,490 350,144 2,310 

3660 ....................................................... KLBK–TV ............................................... 409,551 409,512 2,702 

65523 ..................................................... KLBY ..................................................... 29,875 29,852 197 

38430 ..................................................... KLCS ..................................................... 17,868,933 16,310,676 107,618 

77719 ..................................................... KLCW–TV ............................................. 404,384 404,369 2,668 

51479 ..................................................... KLDO–TV .............................................. 267,717 267,717 1,766 

37105 ..................................................... KLEI ....................................................... 149,648 122,977 811 

56032 ..................................................... KLEW–TV .............................................. 173,816 158,086 1,043 

35059 ..................................................... KLFY–TV ............................................... 1,380,417 1,379,775 9,104 

54011 ..................................................... KLJB ...................................................... 1,003,676 992,763 6,550 

11264 ..................................................... KLKN ..................................................... 1,295,353 1,249,913 8,247 

52593 ..................................................... KLML ..................................................... 285,490 232,725 1,536 

47975 ..................................................... KLNE–TV .............................................. 124,206 124,134 819 

38590 ..................................................... KLPA–TV ............................................... 395,240 395,079 2,607 

38588 ..................................................... KLPB–TV ............................................... 749,224 749,224 4,943 

749 ......................................................... KLRN ..................................................... 2,865,059 2,843,302 18,760 

11951 ..................................................... KLRT–TV ............................................... 1,206,848 1,187,015 7,832 

8564 ....................................................... KLRU ..................................................... 3,404,331 3,364,831 22,201 

8322 ....................................................... KLSR–TV .............................................. 617,791 555,511 3,665 

31114 ..................................................... KLST ..................................................... 205,611 176,862 1,167 

24436 ..................................................... KLTJ ...................................................... 7,239,268 7,239,082 47,763 

38587 ..................................................... KLTL–TV ............................................... 438,847 438,847 2,896 


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Population Population Fee amount 

38589 ..................................................... KLTM–TV .............................................. 670,083 665,283 4,390 

38591 ..................................................... KLTS–TV ............................................... 930,704 927,650 6,121 

68540 ..................................................... KLTV ..................................................... 1,125,646 1,108,403 7,313 

12913 ..................................................... KLUJ–TV ............................................... 1,304,523 1,304,523 8,607 

57220 ..................................................... KLUZ–TV ............................................... 1,122,002 1,061,683 7,005 

11683 ..................................................... KLVX ..................................................... 2,368,176 2,246,495 14,822 

82476 ..................................................... KLWB .................................................... 1,066,369 1,066,248 7,035 

40250 ..................................................... KLWY .................................................... 652,057 648,301 4,277 

64551 ..................................................... KMAU .................................................... 230,508 205,410 1,355 

51499 ..................................................... KMAX–TV .............................................. 11,771,919 7,828,092 51,650 

65686 ..................................................... KMBC–TV ............................................. 2,690,459 2,688,812 17,741 

35183 ..................................................... KMCB .................................................... 71,693 69,118 456 

41237 ..................................................... KMCC .................................................... 2,384,330 2,325,062 15,341 

42636 ..................................................... KMCI–TV ............................................... 2,611,447 2,610,077 17,221 

38584 ..................................................... KMCT–TV .............................................. 270,862 270,855 1,787 

22127 ..................................................... KMCY .................................................... 80,761 80,722 533 

162016 ................................................... KMDE .................................................... 34,041 34,035 225 

26428 ..................................................... KMEB .................................................... 239,702 216,916 1,431 

39665 ..................................................... KMEG .................................................... 763,806 758,839 5,007 

35123 ..................................................... KMEX–DT ............................................. 18,389,371 16,955,856 111,875 

40875 ..................................................... KMGH–TV ............................................. 4,484,612 4,211,082 27,785 

35131 ..................................................... KMID ..................................................... 453,896 453,890 2,995 

16749 ..................................................... KMIR–TV ............................................... 3,014,399 805,795 5,317 

63164 ..................................................... KMIZ ...................................................... 552,020 549,962 3,629 

53541 ..................................................... KMLM–DT ............................................. 358,819 358,819 2,367 

52046 ..................................................... KMLU .................................................... 685,717 681,660 4,498 

47981 ..................................................... KMNE–TV ............................................. 44,963 41,160 272

24753 ..................................................... KMOH–TV ............................................. 217,161 202,513 1,336 

4326 ....................................................... KMOS–TV ............................................. 823,502 819,698 5,408 

41425 ..................................................... KMOT .................................................... 90,764 88,505 584 

70034 ..................................................... KMOV .................................................... 3,058,356 3,053,447 20,147 

51488 ..................................................... KMPH–TV ............................................. 1,871,826 1,831,011 12,081 

73701 ..................................................... KMPX .................................................... 7,985,243 7,981,841 52,664 

44052 ..................................................... KMSB .................................................... 1,390,772 1,081,454 7,135 

68883 ..................................................... KMSP–TV .............................................. 4,232,627 4,200,278 27,713 

12525 ..................................................... KMSS–TV .............................................. 1,047,384 1,044,317 6,890 

43095 ..................................................... KMTP–TV .............................................. 6,891,529 5,992,187 39,536 

35189 ..................................................... KMTR .................................................... 858,621 737,863 4,868 

35190 ..................................................... KMTV–TV .............................................. 1,482,627 1,481,213 9,773 

77063 ..................................................... KMTW ................................................... 782,241 782,233 5,161 

35200 ..................................................... KMVT .................................................... 203,865 194,642 1,284 

32958 ..................................................... KMVU–DT ............................................. 333,344 255,430 1,685 

86534 ..................................................... KMYA–DT ............................................. 181,750 181,710 1,199 

51518 ..................................................... KMYS .................................................... 2,695,906 2,689,444 17,745 

54420 ..................................................... KMYT–TV .............................................. 1,378,264 1,366,926 9,019 

35822 ..................................................... KMYU .................................................... 174,066 170,667 1,126 

993 ......................................................... KNAT–TV .............................................. 1,194,249 1,164,035 7,680 

24749 ..................................................... KNAZ–TV .............................................. 370,644 251,297 1,658 

47906 ..................................................... KNBC .................................................... 18,007,954 16,466,286 108,645 

81464 ..................................................... KNBN .................................................... 158,327 149,470 986 

9754 ....................................................... KNCT ..................................................... 2,162,813 2,134,345 14,082 

82611 ..................................................... KNDB .................................................... 140,899 140,846 929 

82615 ..................................................... KNDM .................................................... 81,669 81,636 539 

12395 ..................................................... KNDO .................................................... 326,624 291,816 1,925 

12427 ..................................................... KNDU .................................................... 531,985 514,613 3,395 

17683 ..................................................... KNEP ..................................................... 96,311 91,722 605 

776145 ................................................... KNGF .................................................... 418,755 418,649 2,762 

48003 ..................................................... KNHL ..................................................... 282,894 282,649 1,865 

125710 ................................................... KNIC–DT ............................................... 2,916,877 2,900,176 19,135 

59363 ..................................................... KNIN–TV ............................................... 861,563 857,065 5,655 

48525 ..................................................... KNLC ..................................................... 3,009,669 3,007,124 19,841 

84215 ..................................................... KNMD–TV ............................................. 1,175,472 1,147,431 7,571 

55528 ..................................................... KNME–TV ............................................. 1,185,928 1,145,659 7,559 

47707 ..................................................... KNMT .................................................... 3,242,939 3,141,420 20,727 

48975 ..................................................... KNOE–TV .............................................. 706,833 703,468 4,641 

49273 ..................................................... KNOP–TV .............................................. 84,998 83,626 552 

10228 ..................................................... KNPB ..................................................... 684,366 522,715 3,449 

55362 ..................................................... KNRR .................................................... 24,339 24,315 160 

35277 ..................................................... KNSD .................................................... 4,176,531 3,908,916 25,791 


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Population Population Fee amount 

19191 ..................................................... KNSN–TV .............................................. 689,549 521,148 3,439 

23302 ..................................................... KNSO .................................................... 1,962,568 1,942,998 12,820 

35280 ..................................................... KNTV ..................................................... 9,285,323 8,743,038 57,687 

144 ......................................................... KNVA ..................................................... 3,326,171 3,285,676 21,679 

33745 ..................................................... KNVN .................................................... 497,887 470,307 3,103 

69692 ..................................................... KNVO .................................................... 1,359,785 1,359,785 8,972 

29557 ..................................................... KNWA–TV ............................................. 929,628 912,611 6,021 

59440 ..................................................... KNXV–TV .............................................. 4,836,838 4,826,028 31,842 

59014 ..................................................... KOAA–TV .............................................. 1,865,217 1,422,070 9,383 

50588 ..................................................... KOAB–TV .............................................. 254,424 250,749 1,654 

50590 ..................................................... KOAC–TV .............................................. 2,168,640 1,718,555 11,339 

58552 ..................................................... KOAM–TV ............................................. 822,738 789,385 5,208 

53928 ..................................................... KOAT–TV .............................................. 1,171,605 1,145,416 7,557 

35313 ..................................................... KOB ....................................................... 1,189,849 1,152,270 7,603 

35321 ..................................................... KOBF ..................................................... 198,225 163,241 1,077 

8260 ....................................................... KOBI ...................................................... 595,619 551,251 3,637 

62272 ..................................................... KOBR .................................................... 227,347 226,868 1,497 

50170 ..................................................... KOCB .................................................... 1,803,171 1,802,139 11,891 

4328 ....................................................... KOCE–TV .............................................. 18,212,242 17,141,918 113,102 

84225 ..................................................... KOCM .................................................... 1,615,493 1,614,922 10,655 

12508 ..................................................... KOCO–TV ............................................. 1,890,246 1,881,152 12,412 

83181 ..................................................... KOCW ................................................... 80,292 80,262 530 

18283 ..................................................... KODE–TV .............................................. 789,082 781,251 5,155 

66195 ..................................................... KOED–TV .............................................. 1,555,369 1,523,164 10,050 

50198 ..................................................... KOET ..................................................... 657,252 637,057 4,203 

51189 ..................................................... KOFY–TV .............................................. 5,746,338 4,850,897 32,006 

34859 ..................................................... KOGG .................................................... 206,000 173,034 1,142 

166534 ................................................... KOHD .................................................... 248,737 244,163 1,611 

35380 ..................................................... KOIN ...................................................... 3,398,786 3,237,691 21,362 

35388 ..................................................... KOKH–TV .............................................. 1,800,124 1,797,602 11,861 

11910 ..................................................... KOKI–TV ............................................... 1,428,477 1,415,308 9,338 

48663 ..................................................... KOLD–TV .............................................. 1,278,430 932,536 6,153 

7890 ....................................................... KOLN ..................................................... 1,565,175 1,465,478 9,669 

63331 ..................................................... KOLO–TV .............................................. 1,045,027 912,343 6,020 

28496 ..................................................... KOLR ..................................................... 1,111,540 1,075,340 7,095 

21656 ..................................................... KOMO–TV ............................................. 4,798,742 4,748,599 31,331 

65583 ..................................................... KOMU–TV ............................................. 560,878 559,926 3,694 

776087 ................................................... KONC .................................................... 1,752,026 1,713,180 11,304 

35396 ..................................................... KONG .................................................... 4,651,055 4,627,490 30,532 

60675 ..................................................... KOOD .................................................... 107,949 107,840 712 

50589 ..................................................... KOPB–TV .............................................. 3,433,002 3,231,453 21,321 

2566 ....................................................... KOPX–TV .............................................. 1,674,969 1,674,820 11,050 

64877 ..................................................... KORO .................................................... 572,684 572,684 3,779 

6865 ....................................................... KOSA–TV .............................................. 412,004 408,993 2,699 

34347 ..................................................... KOTA–TV .............................................. 189,181 166,163 1,096 

8284 ....................................................... KOTI ...................................................... 318,713 97,757 645 

35434 ..................................................... KOTV–DT .............................................. 1,476,322 1,464,332 9,662 

56550 ..................................................... KOVR .................................................... 11,787,731 7,857,430 51,843 

51101 ..................................................... KOZJ ..................................................... 431,452 429,469 2,834 

51102 ..................................................... KOZK ..................................................... 876,101 867,569 5,724 

3659 ....................................................... KOZL–TV .............................................. 1,026,947 999,396 6,594 

35455 ..................................................... KPAX–TV .............................................. 224,598 210,969 1,392 

67868 ..................................................... KPAZ–TV .............................................. 4,842,326 4,829,190 31,863 

6124 ....................................................... KPBS ..................................................... 3,878,727 3,740,193 24,678 

50044 ..................................................... KPBT–TV .............................................. 405,749 405,749 2,677 

77452 ..................................................... KPCB–DT .............................................. 30,087 30,010 198 

35460 ..................................................... KPDX ..................................................... 3,335,153 3,195,785 21,086 

12524 ..................................................... KPEJ–TV ............................................... 439,758 439,752 2,901 

41223 ..................................................... KPHO–TV .............................................. 4,847,036 4,823,456 31,825 

61551 ..................................................... KPIC ...................................................... 162,187 108,923 719 

86205 ..................................................... KPIF ...................................................... 294,133 287,132 1,894 

25452 ..................................................... KPIX–TV ................................................ 8,939,616 8,011,243 52,858 

58912 ..................................................... KPJK ..................................................... 8,580,033 7,562,337 49,896 

166510 ................................................... KPJR–TV ............................................... 3,994,308 3,966,833 26,173 

13994 ..................................................... KPLC ..................................................... 1,433,578 1,431,830 9,447 

41964 ..................................................... KPLO–TV .............................................. 55,567 52,690 348 

35417 ..................................................... KPLR–TV .............................................. 3,020,349 3,017,559 19,910 

12144 ..................................................... KPMR .................................................... 1,795,745 1,521,941 10,042 

47973 ..................................................... KPNE–TV .............................................. 89,112 84,360 557 


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Population Population Fee amount 

35486 ..................................................... KPNX ..................................................... 4,833,873 4,829,331 31,864 

77512 ..................................................... KPNZ ..................................................... 2,843,405 2,620,343 17,289 

73998 ..................................................... KPOB–TV .............................................. 131,017 130,539 861 

26655 ..................................................... KPPX–TV .............................................. 4,839,734 4,825,175 31,837 

53117 ..................................................... KPRC–TV .............................................. 7,306,242 7,305,940 48,205 

48660 ..................................................... KPRY–TV .............................................. 42,882 42,790 282 

61071 ..................................................... KPSD–TV .............................................. 19,034 17,986 119 

53544 ..................................................... KPTB–DT .............................................. 351,156 349,137 2,304 

81445 ..................................................... KPTF–DT .............................................. 83,380 83,378 550 

77451 ..................................................... KPTH ..................................................... 709,738 706,066 4,659 

51491 ..................................................... KPTM .................................................... 1,544,022 1,542,684 10,179 

33345 ..................................................... KPTS ..................................................... 849,715 845,613 5,579 

50633 ..................................................... KPTV ..................................................... 3,367,478 3,193,457 21,070 

82575 ..................................................... KPTW .................................................... 93,904 86,230 569 

1270 ....................................................... KPVI–DT ............................................... 301,761 295,401 1,949 

58835 ..................................................... KPXB–TV .............................................. 7,268,859 7,268,534 47,958 

68695 ..................................................... KPXC–TV .............................................. 3,953,241 3,922,814 25,883 

68834 ..................................................... KPXD–TV .............................................. 7,851,329 7,849,492 51,791 

33337 ..................................................... KPXE–TV .............................................. 2,621,434 2,620,523 17,290 

5801 ....................................................... KPXG–TV .............................................. 3,396,167 3,240,309 21,380 

81507 ..................................................... KPXJ ..................................................... 1,114,713 1,111,470 7,333 

61173 ..................................................... KPXL–TV ............................................... 2,675,400 2,663,341 17,573 

35907 ..................................................... KPXM–TV .............................................. 3,872,706 3,871,246 25,542 

58978 ..................................................... KPXN–TV .............................................. 18,009,859 16,478,550 108,725 

77483 ..................................................... KPXO–TV .............................................. 1,016,659 977,430 6,449 

21156 ..................................................... KPXR–TV .............................................. 870,810 864,123 5,701 

69619 ..................................................... KPYX ..................................................... 8,951,798 8,033,747 53,007 

10242 ..................................................... KQCA .................................................... 11,066,274 6,905,589 45,563 

41430 ..................................................... KQCD–TV ............................................. 46,118 43,974 290

18287 ..................................................... KQCK .................................................... 3,914,615 3,869,797 25,533 

78322 ..................................................... KQCW–DT ............................................ 1,198,492 1,192,260 7,867 

35525 ..................................................... KQDS–TV .............................................. 309,526 305,800 2,018 

35500 ..................................................... KQED .................................................... 8,924,403 7,934,659 52,353 

35663 ..................................................... KQEH .................................................... 8,924,403 7,934,659 52,353 

8214 ....................................................... KQET ..................................................... 3,221,916 2,234,120 14,741 

5471 ....................................................... KQIN ...................................................... 585,179 585,151 3,861 

17686 ..................................................... KQME .................................................... 203,177 198,383 1,309 

61063 ..................................................... KQSD–TV .............................................. 32,060 31,225 206 

8378 ....................................................... KQSL ..................................................... 209,114 145,828 962 

20427 ..................................................... KQTV ..................................................... 1,587,910 1,493,576 9,855 

78921 ..................................................... KQUP .................................................... 801,534 624,922 4,123 

306 ......................................................... KRBC–TV .............................................. 237,068 236,992 1,564 

166319 ................................................... KRBK ..................................................... 1,018,307 1,001,775 6,610 

22161 ..................................................... KRCA .................................................... 18,303,336 17,670,502 116,590 

57945 ..................................................... KRCB .................................................... 9,553,735 9,246,484 61,008 

41110 ..................................................... KRCG .................................................... 758,918 744,644 4,913 

8291 ....................................................... KRCR–TV .............................................. 439,734 419,678 2,769 

10192 ..................................................... KRCW–TV ............................................. 3,330,638 3,194,693 21,079 

49134 ..................................................... KRDK–TV .............................................. 396,418 396,379 2,615 

52579 ..................................................... KRDO–TV ............................................. 3,041,472 2,649,733 17,483 

70578 ..................................................... KREG–TV .............................................. 159,270 97,419 643 

34868 ..................................................... KREM .................................................... 934,011 862,068 5,688 

51493 ..................................................... KREN–TV .............................................. 890,359 755,865 4,987 

70596 ..................................................... KREX–TV .............................................. 154,968 154,745 1,021 

70579 ..................................................... KREY–TV .............................................. 77,765 69,062 456 

48589 ..................................................... KREZ–TV .............................................. 148,142 101,846 672 

43328 ..................................................... KRGV–TV .............................................. 1,359,834 1,359,671 8,971 

82698 ..................................................... KRII ....................................................... 130,753 129,582 855 

29114 ..................................................... KRIN ...................................................... 989,283 975,977 6,439 

25559 ..................................................... KRIS–TV ............................................... 576,145 576,104 3,801 

22204 ..................................................... KRIV ...................................................... 7,295,333 7,294,571 48,130 

14040 ..................................................... KRMA–TV ............................................. 4,385,284 4,186,932 27,625 

14042 ..................................................... KRMJ ..................................................... 184,799 169,573 1,119 

20476 ..................................................... KRMT .................................................... 3,457,214 3,353,993 22,130 

84224 ..................................................... KRMU .................................................... 86,743 70,549 465 

20373 ..................................................... KRMZ .................................................... 37,319 34,727 229 

47971 ..................................................... KRNE–TV .............................................. 45,930 38,258 252 

60307 ..................................................... KRNV–DT .............................................. 1,043,407 879,554 5,803 

65526 ..................................................... KRON–TV ............................................. 9,335,037 8,729,878 57,600 


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Population Population Fee amount 

53539 ..................................................... KRPV–DT .............................................. 65,504 65,504 432 

48575 ..................................................... KRQE .................................................... 1,174,664 1,143,133 7,542 

57431 ..................................................... KRSU–TV .............................................. 1,078,345 1,076,370 7,102 

82613 ..................................................... KRTN–TV .............................................. 86,907 67,161 443 

35567 ..................................................... KRTV ..................................................... 95,862 94,385 623 

84157 ..................................................... KRWB–TV ............................................. 118,050 117,368 774 

35585 ..................................................... KRWF .................................................... 82,308 82,308 543 

55516 ..................................................... KRWG–TV ............................................. 929,122 719,343 4,746 

48360 ..................................................... KRXI–TV ............................................... 802,294 612,918 4,044 

307 ......................................................... KSAN–TV .............................................. 142,667 142,664 941 

11911 ..................................................... KSAS–TV .............................................. 773,161 773,144 5,101 

53118 ..................................................... KSAT–TV .............................................. 3,075,254 3,027,321 19,974 

35584 ..................................................... KSAX ..................................................... 380,811 380,811 2,513 

35587 ..................................................... KSAZ–TV .............................................. 4,854,767 4,831,287 31,877 

38214 ..................................................... KSBI ...................................................... 1,751,439 1,749,811 11,545 

19653 ..................................................... KSBW .................................................... 5,564,606 4,838,506 31,924 

19654 ..................................................... KSBY ..................................................... 564,561 526,110 3,471 

82910 ..................................................... KSCC .................................................... 534,707 534,707 3,528 

10202 ..................................................... KSCE ..................................................... 1,093,223 1,089,485 7,188 

35608 ..................................................... KSCI ...................................................... 18,212,242 17,141,918 113,102 

72348 ..................................................... KSCW–DT ............................................. 927,681 922,979 6,090 

46981 ..................................................... KSDK ..................................................... 3,013,779 3,007,368 19,843 

35594 ..................................................... KSEE ..................................................... 1,888,344 1,874,494 12,368 

29121 ..................................................... KSFL–TV ............................................... 330,215 330,182 2,179 

48658 ..................................................... KSFY–TV .............................................. 731,978 677,603 4,471 

17680 ..................................................... KSGW–TV ............................................. 63,725 62,410 412

59444 ..................................................... KSHB–TV .............................................. 2,616,078 2,614,543 17,251 

73706 ..................................................... KSHV–TV .............................................. 927,614 927,074 6,117 

29096 ..................................................... KSIN–TV ............................................... 349,020 347,636 2,294 

34846 ..................................................... KSIX–TV ................................................ 79,019 79,019 521 

35606 ..................................................... KSKN ..................................................... 841,494 741,761 4,894 

70482 ..................................................... KSLA ..................................................... 998,682 998,217 6,586 

6359 ....................................................... KSL–TV ................................................. 2,839,353 2,616,980 17,267 

71558 ..................................................... KSMN .................................................... 357,081 357,075 2,356 

33336 ..................................................... KSMO–TV ............................................. 2,585,699 2,584,094 17,050 

28510 ..................................................... KSMQ–TV ............................................. 540,217 524,751 3,462 

35611 ..................................................... KSMS–TV .............................................. 1,684,095 922,727 6,088 

21161 ..................................................... KSNB–TV .............................................. 748,097 747,971 4,935 

72359 ..................................................... KSNC .................................................... 166,315 165,997 1,095 

67766 ..................................................... KSNF ..................................................... 640,722 637,167 4,204 

72361 ..................................................... KSNG .................................................... 143,267 143,050 944 

72362 ..................................................... KSNK ..................................................... 46,872 43,725 288 

67335 ..................................................... KSNT ..................................................... 657,321 629,824 4,156 

10179 ..................................................... KSNV ..................................................... 2,283,885 2,225,135 14,681 

72358 ..................................................... KSNW .................................................... 810,301 809,927 5,344 

61956 ..................................................... KSPS–TV .............................................. 935,711 883,159 5,827 

52953 ..................................................... KSPX–TV .............................................. 7,814,495 5,846,886 38,578 

166546 ................................................... KSQA .................................................... 391,323 383,112 2,528 

53313 ..................................................... KSRE ..................................................... 83,984 83,984 554 

35843 ..................................................... KSTC–TV .............................................. 4,228,163 4,218,565 27,834 

63182 ..................................................... KSTF ..................................................... 49,439 49,305 325 

28010 ..................................................... KSTP–TV .............................................. 4,230,921 4,222,032 27,857 

60534 ..................................................... KSTR–DT .............................................. 7,934,904 7,932,227 52,337 

64987 ..................................................... KSTS ..................................................... 9,125,502 7,902,723 52,142 

22215 ..................................................... KSTU ..................................................... 2,834,133 2,604,938 17,187 

23428 ..................................................... KSTW .................................................... 4,945,092 4,849,973 32,000 

5243 ....................................................... KSVI ...................................................... 192,678 191,712 1,265 

58827 ..................................................... KSWB–TV ............................................. 3,976,536 3,773,857 24,900 

60683 ..................................................... KSWK .................................................... 78,448 78,334 517 

35645 ..................................................... KSWO–TV ............................................. 461,432 437,725 2,888 

61350 ..................................................... KSYS ..................................................... 551,328 475,899 3,140 

59988 ..................................................... KTAB–TV .............................................. 281,813 281,579 1,858 

999 ......................................................... KTAJ–TV ............................................... 2,529,426 2,528,757 16,685 

35648 ..................................................... KTAL–TV ............................................... 1,072,280 1,070,439 7,063 

12930 ..................................................... KTAS ..................................................... 501,069 491,644 3,244 

81458 ..................................................... KTAZ ..................................................... 4,835,851 4,811,877 31,749 

35649 ..................................................... KTBC ..................................................... 4,138,493 3,857,454 25,451 

67884 ..................................................... KTBN–TV .............................................. 18,729,484 17,423,297 114,959 

67999 ..................................................... KTBO–TV .............................................. 1,758,274 1,756,813 11,591 


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Population Population Fee amount 

35652 ..................................................... KTBS–TV .............................................. 1,138,628 1,135,638 7,493 

28324 ..................................................... KTBU ..................................................... 7,242,592 7,242,368 47,785 

67950 ..................................................... KTBW–TV ............................................. 4,873,117 4,763,879 31,432 

35655 ..................................................... KTBY ..................................................... 360,565 358,722 2,367 

68594 ..................................................... KTCA–TV .............................................. 4,022,616 4,008,908 26,451 

68597 ..................................................... KTCI–TV ................................................ 3,912,137 3,908,528 25,788 

35187 ..................................................... KTCW .................................................... 106,581 93,009 614 

36916 ..................................................... KTDO .................................................... 1,093,374 1,089,602 7,189 

2769 ....................................................... KTEJ ...................................................... 417,496 415,013 2,738 

83707 ..................................................... KTEL–TV ............................................... 61,338 61,328 405 

35666 ..................................................... KTEN ..................................................... 629,981 627,687 4,141 

24514 ..................................................... KTFD–TV .............................................. 3,767,471 3,727,523 24,594 

35512 ..................................................... KTFF–DT ............................................... 2,403,821 2,383,063 15,723 

20871 ..................................................... KTFK–DT .............................................. 7,705,367 5,721,312 37,749 

68753 ..................................................... KTFN ..................................................... 1,095,022 1,091,962 7,205 

35084 ..................................................... KTFQ–TV .............................................. 1,188,205 1,154,792 7,619 

29232 ..................................................... KTGM .................................................... 153,836 153,653 1,014 

2787 ....................................................... KTHV ..................................................... 1,302,388 1,276,430 8,422 

29100 ..................................................... KTIN ...................................................... 275,295 273,715 1,806 

66170 ..................................................... KTIV ...................................................... 806,217 800,304 5,280 

49397 ..................................................... KTKA–TV .............................................. 805,221 786,518 5,189 

35670 ..................................................... KTLA ..................................................... 18,962,616 17,555,224 115,829 

62354 ..................................................... KTLM ..................................................... 1,148,738 1,148,738 7,579 

49153 ..................................................... KTLN–TV ............................................... 5,867,943 5,221,797 34,453 

64984 ..................................................... KTMD .................................................... 7,304,022 7,303,795 48,190 

14675 ..................................................... KTMF ..................................................... 203,121 182,458 1,204 

10177 ..................................................... KTMW ................................................... 2,690,440 2,543,730 16,784 

21533 ..................................................... KTNC–TV .............................................. 9,007,762 8,012,556 52,867 

47996 ..................................................... KTNE–TV .............................................. 95,310 90,746 599 

60519 ..................................................... KTNL–TV ............................................... 8,275 8,274 55 

74100 ..................................................... KTNV–TV .............................................. 2,422,112 2,249,532 14,842 

71023 ..................................................... KTNW .................................................... 512,412 493,366 3,255 

8651 ....................................................... KTOO–TV .............................................. 32,198 32,017 211 

7078 ....................................................... KTPX–TV .............................................. 1,138,473 1,136,085 7,496 

68541 ..................................................... KTRE ..................................................... 438,137 420,563 2,775 

35675 ..................................................... KTRK–TV .............................................. 7,318,272 7,316,846 48,277 

28230 ..................................................... KTRV–TV .............................................. 869,223 861,267 5,683 

69170 ..................................................... KTSC ..................................................... 3,598,645 3,397,164 22,414 

61066 ..................................................... KTSD–TV .............................................. 84,807 83,980 554 

37511 ..................................................... KTSF ..................................................... 8,697,794 7,750,134 51,135 

67760 ..................................................... KTSM–TV .............................................. 1,093,389 1,090,716 7,197 

35678 ..................................................... KTTC ..................................................... 836,828 748,435 4,938 

28501 ..................................................... KTTM ..................................................... 77,930 75,368 497 

11908 ..................................................... KTTU ..................................................... 1,393,795 1,109,962 7,324 

22208 ..................................................... KTTV ..................................................... 18,130,338 17,373,502 114,630 

28521 ..................................................... KTTW .................................................... 381,013 377,833 2,493 

65355 ..................................................... KTTZ–TV ............................................... 402,714 402,692 2,657 

35685 ..................................................... KTUL ..................................................... 1,573,310 1,543,051 10,181 

10173 ..................................................... KTUU–TV .............................................. 397,237 395,237 2,608 

77480 ..................................................... KTUZ–TV .............................................. 1,841,616 1,840,457 12,143 

49632 ..................................................... KTVA ..................................................... 353,795 353,563 2,333 

34858 ..................................................... KTVB ..................................................... 869,177 862,056 5,688 

31437 ..................................................... KTVC ..................................................... 140,329 104,355 689 

68581 ..................................................... KTVD ..................................................... 4,468,718 4,179,057 27,573 

35692 ..................................................... KTVE ..................................................... 607,145 606,961 4,005 

49621 ..................................................... KTVF ..................................................... 96,106 95,973 633 

5290 ....................................................... KTVH–DT .............................................. 244,448 199,923 1,319 

35693 ..................................................... KTVI ...................................................... 3,025,572 3,022,219 19,941 

40993 ..................................................... KTVK ..................................................... 4,837,443 4,825,882 31,841 

22570 ..................................................... KTVL ..................................................... 446,924 395,259 2,608 

18066 ..................................................... KTVM–TV .............................................. 303,243 250,287 1,651 

59139 ..................................................... KTVN ..................................................... 1,043,407 885,756 5,844 

21251 ..................................................... KTVO ..................................................... 220,732 220,235 1,453 

35694 ..................................................... KTVQ ..................................................... 197,125 190,529 1,257 

50592 ..................................................... KTVR ..................................................... 153,040 56,934 376 

23422 ..................................................... KTVT ..................................................... 8,233,312 8,230,812 54,307 

35703 ..................................................... KTVU ..................................................... 9,036,813 8,056,602 53,157 

35705 ..................................................... KTVW–DT ............................................. 4,827,096 4,809,796 31,735 

68889 ..................................................... KTVX ..................................................... 2,838,210 2,602,217 17,169 


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Population Population Fee amount 

55907 ..................................................... KTVZ ..................................................... 249,013 246,030 1,623 

18286 ..................................................... KTWO–TV ............................................. 84,574 84,044 555

70938 ..................................................... KTWU .................................................... 1,834,018 1,697,183 11,198 

51517 ..................................................... KTXA ..................................................... 8,210,642 8,208,172 54,158 

42359 ..................................................... KTXD–TV .............................................. 8,012,541 8,010,333 52,852 

51569 ..................................................... KTXH ..................................................... 7,301,821 7,301,673 48,176 

10205 ..................................................... KTXL ..................................................... 9,145,873 6,451,158 42,565 

308 ......................................................... KTXS–TV .............................................. 255,216 254,480 1,679 

69315 ..................................................... KUAC–TV .............................................. 96,544 96,043 634 

51233 ..................................................... KUAM–TV ............................................. 153,836 153,836 1,015 

2722 ....................................................... KUAS–TV .............................................. 1,060,599 1,041,636 6,873 

2731 ....................................................... KUAT–TV .............................................. 1,596,429 1,361,399 8,983 

60520 ..................................................... KUBD .................................................... 15,387 13,666 90 

70492 ..................................................... KUBE–TV .............................................. 7,297,882 7,297,596 48,150 

1136 ....................................................... KUCW ................................................... 2,837,693 2,601,359 17,164 

69396 ..................................................... KUED .................................................... 2,837,687 2,603,895 17,180 

69582 ..................................................... KUEN .................................................... 2,806,982 2,580,258 17,025 

82576 ..................................................... KUES ..................................................... 32,094 26,754 177 

82585 ..................................................... KUEW .................................................... 174,491 162,588 1,073 

66611 ..................................................... KUFM–TV .............................................. 203,395 180,333 1,190 

169028 ................................................... KUGF–TV .............................................. 89,762 89,455 590

68717 ..................................................... KUHM–TV ............................................. 166,592 156,454 1,032 

69269 ..................................................... KUHT ..................................................... 7,288,782 7,288,082 48,087 

62382 ..................................................... KUID–TV ............................................... 482,761 308,950 2,038 

169027 ................................................... KUKL–TV .............................................. 140,626 131,415 867 

35724 ..................................................... KULR–TV .............................................. 194,552 186,663 1,232 

41429 ..................................................... KUMV–TV ............................................. 70,878 70,314 464

81447 ..................................................... KUNP .................................................... 133,781 45,006 297 

4624 ....................................................... KUNS–TV .............................................. 4,682,176 4,668,774 30,805 

86532 ..................................................... KUOK .................................................... 28,807 28,738 190 

66589 ..................................................... KUON–TV ............................................. 1,516,440 1,502,853 9,916 

86263 ..................................................... KUPB ..................................................... 386,448 386,448 2,550 

65535 ..................................................... KUPK ..................................................... 147,290 146,174 964 

27431 ..................................................... KUPT ..................................................... 101,334 101,329 669 

89714 ..................................................... KUPU .................................................... 1,019,651 1,010,979 6,670 

57884 ..................................................... KUPX–TV .............................................. 2,824,302 2,598,543 17,145 

23074 ..................................................... KUSA ..................................................... 4,470,580 4,195,376 27,681 

61072 ..................................................... KUSD–TV .............................................. 519,419 519,181 3,426 

10238 ..................................................... KUSI–TV ............................................... 3,853,072 3,707,454 24,462 

43567 ..................................................... KUSM–TV ............................................. 155,558 140,071 924 

69694 ..................................................... KUTF ..................................................... 1,357,824 1,164,486 7,683 

81451 ..................................................... KUTH–DT .............................................. 2,636,456 2,416,549 15,944 

68886 ..................................................... KUTP ..................................................... 4,842,720 4,823,413 31,825 

35823 ..................................................... KUTV ..................................................... 2,837,398 2,601,168 17,163 

63927 ..................................................... KUVE–DT .............................................. 1,370,137 1,024,072 6,757 

7700 ....................................................... KUVI–DT ............................................... 1,287,700 1,076,164 7,101 

35841 ..................................................... KUVN–DT .............................................. 7,987,884 7,986,084 52,692 

58609 ..................................................... KUVS–DT .............................................. 4,496,875 4,458,448 29,417 

49766 ..................................................... KVAL–TV ............................................... 1,114,792 948,593 6,259 

32621 ..................................................... KVAW .................................................... 77,028 77,028 508 

58795 ..................................................... KVCR–DT .............................................. 19,073,599 18,308,953 120,802 

35846 ..................................................... KVCT ..................................................... 291,432 290,038 1,914 

10195 ..................................................... KVCW .................................................... 2,283,670 2,224,688 14,678 

64969 ..................................................... KVDA ..................................................... 3,114,838 3,092,933 20,407 

19783 ..................................................... KVEA ..................................................... 18,300,497 17,059,098 112,556 

12523 ..................................................... KVEO–TV .............................................. 1,357,022 1,356,984 8,953 

2495 ....................................................... KVEW .................................................... 537,519 524,246 3,459 

35852 ..................................................... KVHP ..................................................... 773,592 773,545 5,104 

49832 ..................................................... KVIA–TV ................................................ 1,093,389 1,090,716 7,197 

35855 ..................................................... KVIE ...................................................... 11,759,390 8,232,137 54,316 

40450 ..................................................... KVIH–TV ............................................... 139,435 119,247 787 

40446 ..................................................... KVII–TV ................................................. 392,629 391,979 2,586 

61961 ..................................................... KVLY–TV ............................................... 409,018 408,931 2,698 

16729 ..................................................... KVMD .................................................... 15,940,782 15,143,297 99,915 

83825 ..................................................... KVME–TV .............................................. 26,212 22,277 147 

25735 ..................................................... KVOA .................................................... 1,386,793 1,069,725 7,058 

35862 ..................................................... KVOS–TV .............................................. 2,566,816 2,493,670 16,453 

69733 ..................................................... KVPT ..................................................... 1,856,508 1,833,293 12,096 

55372 ..................................................... KVRR .................................................... 403,075 403,075 2,659 


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Facility Id. Call sign 

Service area Terrain limited Terrain limited 

Population Population Fee amount 

166331 ................................................... KVSN–DT .............................................. 3,136,196 2,698,298 17,803 

608 ......................................................... KVTH–DT .............................................. 319,985 318,374 2,101 

2784 ....................................................... KVTJ–DT ............................................... 1,459,963 1,459,552 9,630 

607 ......................................................... KVTN–DT .............................................. 970,045 963,130 6,355 

35867 ..................................................... KVUE ..................................................... 3,458,312 3,395,187 22,401 

78910 ..................................................... KVUI ...................................................... 286,007 279,513 1,844 

35870 ..................................................... KVVU–TV .............................................. 2,369,125 2,246,682 14,824 

36170 ..................................................... KVYE ..................................................... 404,453 401,890 2,652 

35095 ..................................................... KWBA–TV ............................................. 1,194,062 1,136,172 7,496 

78314 ..................................................... KWBM ................................................... 694,164 676,716 4,465 

27425 ..................................................... KWBN .................................................... 1,016,508 893,029 5,892 

76268 ..................................................... KWBQ ................................................... 1,186,772 1,147,638 7,572 

66413 ..................................................... KWCH–DT ............................................. 897,522 896,232 5,913 

71549 ..................................................... KWCM–TV ............................................ 253,609 245,441 1,619 

35419 ..................................................... KWDK .................................................... 4,867,196 4,778,196 31,527 

42007 ..................................................... KWES–TV ............................................. 506,963 506,675 3,343 

50194 ..................................................... KWET .................................................... 125,090 109,790 724 

35881 ..................................................... KWEX–DT ............................................. 2,871,330 2,864,298 18,899 

35883 ..................................................... KWGN–TV ............................................. 4,368,605 4,155,087 27,415 

37099 ..................................................... KWHB .................................................... 1,056,520 1,056,118 6,968 

36846 ..................................................... KWHE .................................................... 1,015,533 885,013 5,839 

26231 ..................................................... KWHY–TV ............................................. 18,512,098 18,476,669 121,909 

35096 ..................................................... KWKB .................................................... 1,167,302 1,156,465 7,630 

162115 ................................................... KWKS .................................................... 38,196 37,876 250 

12522 ..................................................... KWKT–TV ............................................. 1,631,788 1,626,721 10,733 

21162 ..................................................... KWNB–TV ............................................. 87,130 85,538 564

67347 ..................................................... KWOG ................................................... 615,169 608,476 4,015 

56852 ..................................................... KWPX–TV ............................................. 4,894,047 4,809,358 31,732 

6885 ....................................................... KWQC–TV ............................................. 1,082,087 1,072,789 7,078 

53318 ..................................................... KWSE .................................................... 85,141 83,532 551 

71024 ..................................................... KWSU–TV ............................................. 824,342 528,984 3,490 

25382 ..................................................... KWTV–DT ............................................. 1,801,405 1,800,115 11,877 

35903 ..................................................... KWTX–TV ............................................. 2,532,542 2,418,595 15,958 

593 ......................................................... KWWL ................................................... 1,127,596 1,116,266 7,365 

84410 ..................................................... KWWT ................................................... 358,813 358,813 2,367 

14674 ..................................................... KWYB .................................................... 91,657 72,951 481 

10032 ..................................................... KWYP–DT ............................................. 163,309 143,265 945 

35920 ..................................................... KXAN–TV .............................................. 3,476,567 3,408,238 22,488 

49330 ..................................................... KXAS–TV .............................................. 8,080,362 8,077,819 53,297 

24287 ..................................................... KXGN–TV .............................................. 14,265 13,906 92

35954 ..................................................... KXII ........................................................ 2,904,223 2,845,456 18,774 

55083 ..................................................... KXLA ..................................................... 18,725,198 17,464,578 115,231 

35959 ..................................................... KXLF–TV ............................................... 301,370 256,892 1,695 

53847 ..................................................... KXLN–DT .............................................. 7,293,696 7,293,476 48,122 

35906 ..................................................... KXLT–TV ............................................... 369,632 369,086 2,435 

61978 ..................................................... KXLY–TV ............................................... 884,722 852,475 5,625 

55684 ..................................................... KXMA–TV .............................................. 42,033 41,964 277 

55686 ..................................................... KXMB–TV .............................................. 164,736 160,794 1,061 

55685 ..................................................... KXMC–TV ............................................. 108,096 100,774 665 

55683 ..................................................... KXMD–TV ............................................. 66,215 66,107 436

47995 ..................................................... KXNE–TV .............................................. 314,798 313,705 2,070 

81593 ..................................................... KXNW .................................................... 707,066 702,866 4,638 

35991 ..................................................... KXRM–TV ............................................. 2,129,262 1,769,815 11,677 

1255 ....................................................... KXTF ..................................................... 157,622 157,168 1,037 

25048 ..................................................... KXTV ..................................................... 11,761,085 8,212,854 54,188 

35994 ..................................................... KXTX–TV .............................................. 8,029,815 8,026,902 52,961 

62293 ..................................................... KXVA ..................................................... 195,284 195,242 1,288 

23277 ..................................................... KXVO .................................................... 1,535,792 1,534,836 10,127 

9781 ....................................................... KXXV ..................................................... 2,192,443 2,159,450 14,248 

31870 ..................................................... KYAZ ..................................................... 7,248,533 7,248,341 47,825 

29086 ..................................................... KYIN ...................................................... 596,722 594,616 3,923 

60384 ..................................................... KYLE–TV ............................................... 367,648 367,562 2,425 

33639 ..................................................... KYMA–DT ............................................. 403,372 400,541 2,643 

47974 ..................................................... KYNE–TV .............................................. 1,089,692 1,089,546 7,189 

53820 ..................................................... KYOU–TV .............................................. 679,167 668,722 4,412 

36003 ..................................................... KYTV ..................................................... 1,129,940 1,117,420 7,373 

55644 ..................................................... KYTX ..................................................... 956,234 955,262 6,303 

13815 ..................................................... KYUR .................................................... 397,084 395,055 2,607 

5237 ....................................................... KYUS–TV .............................................. 12,525 12,495 82 


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Population Population Fee amount 

33752 ..................................................... KYVE ..................................................... 317,640 273,973 1,808 

55762 ..................................................... KYVV–TV .............................................. 66,372 65,857 435 

25453 ..................................................... KYW–TV ................................................ 11,769,848 11,559,783 76,271 

69531 ..................................................... KZJL ...................................................... 7,244,427 7,244,235 47,797 

69571 ..................................................... KZJO ..................................................... 4,814,396 4,758,120 31,394 

61062 ..................................................... KZSD–TV .............................................. 40,148 34,607 228 

33079 ..................................................... KZTV ..................................................... 578,385 575,560 3,798 

57292 ..................................................... WAAY–TV ............................................. 1,644,869 1,570,146 10,360 

1328 ....................................................... WABC–TV ............................................. 22,259,872 21,880,695 144,369 

4190 ....................................................... WABE–TV ............................................. 6,138,218 6,116,631 40,358 

43203 ..................................................... WABG–TV ............................................. 352,521 352,047 2,323 

17005 ..................................................... WABI–TV ............................................... 532,053 512,796 3,383 

16820 ..................................................... WABM ................................................... 1,857,082 1,825,082 12,042 

23917 ..................................................... WABW–TV ............................................ 1,106,011 1,104,788 7,289 

19199 ..................................................... WACH ................................................... 1,448,991 1,442,358 9,517 

189358 ................................................... WACP .................................................... 9,884,531 9,777,819 64,514 

23930 ..................................................... WACS–TV ............................................. 785,954 782,957 5,166 

60018 ..................................................... WACX .................................................... 5,173,569 5,164,028 34,072 

361 ......................................................... WACY–TV ............................................. 992,148 991,650 6,543 

455 ......................................................... WADL .................................................... 4,727,529 4,719,528 31,139 

589 ......................................................... WAFB .................................................... 1,928,550 1,927,924 12,720 

591 ......................................................... WAFF .................................................... 1,642,889 1,574,162 10,386 

70689 ..................................................... WAGA–TV ............................................. 6,879,310 6,793,067 44,821 

48305 ..................................................... WAGM–TV ............................................ 60,320 59,087 390 

37809 ..................................................... WAGV ................................................... 1,555,609 1,240,816 8,187 

706 ......................................................... WAIQ ..................................................... 624,285 622,198 4,105 

701 ......................................................... WAKA .................................................... 796,039 790,015 5,213 

4143 ....................................................... WALA–TV .............................................. 1,431,666 1,428,457 9,425 

70713 ..................................................... WALB .................................................... 794,686 793,085 5,233 

60536 ..................................................... WAMI–DT .............................................. 6,013,991 6,013,991 39,680 

70852 ..................................................... WAND ................................................... 1,345,860 1,344,596 8,872 

39270 ..................................................... WANE–TV ............................................. 1,182,627 1,182,599 7,803 

72120 ..................................................... WANF .................................................... 6,907,445 6,833,668 45,089 

64546 ..................................................... WAOW .................................................. 642,013 633,108 4,177 

52073 ..................................................... WAPA–TV2 7 ......................................... 3,310,492 2,963,089 19,550 

49712 ..................................................... WAPT .................................................... 784,962 783,938 5,172 

67792 ..................................................... WAQP ................................................... 2,125,841 2,121,638 13,999 

13206 ..................................................... WATC–DT ............................................. 6,582,231 6,553,248 43,238 

71082 ..................................................... WATE–TV ............................................. 1,971,491 1,724,804 11,380 

22819 ..................................................... WATL .................................................... 6,759,193 6,686,998 44,121 

20287 ..................................................... WATM–TV ............................................. 868,640 735,080 4,850 

11907 ..................................................... WATN–TV ............................................. 1,792,866 1,789,289 11,806 

13989 ..................................................... WAVE .................................................... 1,998,359 1,989,161 13,124 

71127 ..................................................... WAVY–TV ............................................. 2,171,033 2,171,033 14,324 

54938 ..................................................... WAWD ................................................... 661,368 661,287 4,363 

65247 ..................................................... WAWV–TV ............................................ 684,558 679,421 4,483 

12793 ..................................................... WAXN–TV ............................................. 3,101,362 3,092,322 20,403 

65696 ..................................................... WBAL–TV .............................................. 10,637,240 10,226,692 67,476 

74417 ..................................................... WBAY–TV ............................................. 1,275,960 1,275,160 8,414 

71085 ..................................................... WBBH–TV ............................................. 2,368,347 2,368,347 15,626 

65204 ..................................................... WBBJ–TV .............................................. 654,842 651,262 4,297 

9617 ....................................................... WBBM–TV ............................................. 10,069,057 10,062,626 66,393 

9088 ....................................................... WBBZ–TV ............................................. 1,293,109 1,281,368 8,454 

70138 ..................................................... WBDT .................................................... 3,996,184 3,976,552 26,237 

51349 ..................................................... WBEC–TV ............................................. 5,979,674 5,979,674 39,454 

10758 ..................................................... WBFF .................................................... 9,293,641 9,148,848 60,364 

12497 ..................................................... WBFS–TV ............................................. 5,895,133 5,895,133 38,896 

6568 ....................................................... WBGU–TV ............................................. 1,325,871 1,325,871 8,748 

81594 ..................................................... WBIF ..................................................... 315,981 315,981 2,085 

84802 ..................................................... WBIH ..................................................... 734,949 717,111 4,731 

717 ......................................................... WBIQ ..................................................... 1,649,738 1,621,834 10,701 

46984 ..................................................... WBIR–TV .............................................. 2,083,590 1,795,576 11,847 

67048 ..................................................... WBKB–TV ............................................. 131,202 123,916 818 

34167 ..................................................... WBKI ..................................................... 2,220,753 2,204,001 14,542 

4692 ....................................................... WBKO ................................................... 1,079,438 953,403 6,291 

76001 ..................................................... WBKP .................................................... 54,703 54,532 360 

68427 ..................................................... WBMM ................................................... 595,569 595,314 3,928 

73692 ..................................................... WBNA .................................................... 1,803,465 1,770,024 11,679 

23337 ..................................................... WBNG–TV ............................................. 1,400,072 1,023,266 6,752 


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Population Population Fee amount 

71217 ..................................................... WBNS–TV ............................................. 3,083,491 3,021,775 19,938 

72958 ..................................................... WBNX–TV ............................................. 3,642,087 3,632,499 23,967 

71218 ..................................................... WBOC–TV ............................................. 880,031 880,031 5,806 

71220 ..................................................... WBOY–TV ............................................. 689,705 605,977 3,998 

60850 ..................................................... WBPH–TV ............................................. 11,348,739 10,115,153 66,740 

7692 ....................................................... WBPX–TV ............................................. 7,354,860 7,283,151 48,054 

5981 ....................................................... WBRA–TV ............................................. 1,705,750 1,657,188 10,934 

71221 ..................................................... WBRC ................................................... 1,976,420 1,942,307 12,815 

71225 ..................................................... WBRE–TV ............................................. 2,912,468 2,263,626 14,935 

38616 ..................................................... WBRZ–TV ............................................. 2,299,439 2,298,465 15,165 

82627 ..................................................... WBSF .................................................... 1,816,355 1,811,602 11,953 

30826 ..................................................... WBTV .................................................... 4,973,067 4,828,412 31,858 

66407 ..................................................... WBTW ................................................... 2,060,897 2,044,444 13,489 

16363 ..................................................... WBUI ..................................................... 964,071 964,061 6,361 

59281 ..................................................... WBUP .................................................... 124,208 111,143 733 

60830 ..................................................... WBUY–TV ............................................. 1,568,306 1,566,684 10,337 

72971 ..................................................... WBXX–TV ............................................. 2,270,940 2,098,066 13,843 

25456 ..................................................... WBZ–TV ................................................ 8,524,410 8,283,402 54,654 

63153 ..................................................... WCAU ................................................... 11,821,594 11,646,436 76,843 

363 ......................................................... WCAV .................................................... 1,122,505 960,525 6,338 

46728 ..................................................... WCAX–TV ............................................. 793,321 675,201 4,455 

39659 ..................................................... WCBB .................................................... 985,125 952,373 6,284 

10587 ..................................................... WCBD–TV ............................................. 1,336,923 1,336,923 8,821 

12477 ..................................................... WCBI–TV .............................................. 675,135 673,011 4,441 

9610 ....................................................... WCBS–TV ............................................. 23,434,126 22,837,346 150,681 

49157 ..................................................... WCCB ................................................... 4,088,954 4,017,224 26,506 

9629 ....................................................... WCCO–TV ............................................ 4,237,121 4,228,346 27,899 

14050 ..................................................... WCCT–TV ............................................. 5,898,482 5,384,454 35,527 

69544 ..................................................... WCCU ................................................... 673,293 673,293 4,442 

3001 ....................................................... WCCV–TV ............................................. 3,000,204 2,188,016 14,437 

23937 ..................................................... WCES–TV ............................................. 1,138,637 1,137,146 7,503 

65666 ..................................................... WCET .................................................... 3,245,827 3,234,134 21,339 

46755 ..................................................... WCFE–TV ............................................. 468,278 427,164 2,818 

71280 ..................................................... WCHS–TV ............................................. 1,276,867 1,199,053 7,911 

42124 ..................................................... WCIA ..................................................... 809,784 809,348 5,340 

711 ......................................................... WCIQ ..................................................... 3,433,774 3,244,161 21,405 

71428 ..................................................... WCIU–TV .............................................. 10,205,649 10,199,522 67,296 

9015 ....................................................... WCIV ..................................................... 1,341,404 1,341,404 8,851 

42116 ..................................................... WCIX ..................................................... 531,709 527,935 3,483 

16993 ..................................................... WCJB–TV .............................................. 1,080,055 1,080,055 7,126 

11125 ..................................................... WCLF .................................................... 4,707,313 4,706,427 31,053 

68007 ..................................................... WCLJ–TV .............................................. 2,538,971 2,537,989 16,746 

50781 ..................................................... WCMH–TV ............................................ 2,988,929 2,947,009 19,444 

9917 ....................................................... WCML ................................................... 229,956 221,000 1,458 

9908 ....................................................... WCMU–TV ............................................ 717,859 708,880 4,677 

9922 ....................................................... WCMV ................................................... 435,637 421,372 2,780 

9913 ....................................................... WCMW .................................................. 107,851 105,871 699 

32326 ..................................................... WCNC–TV ............................................. 4,347,601 4,262,460 28,124 

53734 ..................................................... WCNY–TV ............................................. 1,328,626 1,263,336 8,335 

73642 ..................................................... WCOV–TV ............................................. 916,080 911,398 6,013 

40618 ..................................................... WCPB .................................................... 612,947 612,947 4,044 

59438 ..................................................... WCPO–TV ............................................. 3,461,834 3,448,166 22,751 

10981 ..................................................... WCPX–TV ............................................. 9,906,756 9,905,251 65,355 

71297 ..................................................... WCSC–TV ............................................. 1,188,482 1,188,482 7,842 

39664 ..................................................... WCSH ................................................... 1,844,256 1,625,773 10,727 

69479 ..................................................... WCTE .................................................... 645,441 572,887 3,780 

18334 ..................................................... WCTI–TV ............................................... 1,741,252 1,734,851 11,447 

31590 ..................................................... WCTV .................................................... 1,083,799 1,083,709 7,150 

33081 ..................................................... WCTX .................................................... 7,999,974 7,453,383 49,177 

65684 ..................................................... WCVB–TV ............................................. 8,334,723 8,171,970 53,919 

9987 ....................................................... WCVE–TV ............................................. 1,894,231 1,892,374 12,486 

83304 ..................................................... WCVI–TV .............................................. 41,004 40,978 270 

34204 ..................................................... WCVN–TV ............................................. 2,242,264 2,237,912 14,766 

9989 ....................................................... WCVW ................................................... 1,662,141 1,660,801 10,958 

73042 ..................................................... WCWF ................................................... 1,181,564 1,180,880 7,791 

35385 ..................................................... WCWG .................................................. 3,895,811 3,546,156 23,398 

29712 ..................................................... WCWJ ................................................... 1,938,352 1,938,263 12,789 

73264 ..................................................... WCWN .................................................. 1,917,787 1,630,664 10,759 

2455 ....................................................... WCYB–TV ............................................. 2,296,374 1,447,129 9,548 


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Population Population Fee amount 

11291 ..................................................... WDAF–TV ............................................. 2,724,533 2,722,049 17,960 

21250 ..................................................... WDAM–TV ............................................ 507,937 495,331 3,268 

22129 ..................................................... WDAY–TV ............................................. 389,109 389,023 2,567 

22124 ..................................................... WDAZ–TV ............................................. 155,202 154,877 1,022 

71325 ..................................................... WDBB .................................................... 1,874,003 1,841,150 12,148 

71326 ..................................................... WDBD ................................................... 924,445 923,304 6,092 

71329 ..................................................... WDBJ .................................................... 1,603,364 1,421,509 9,379 

51567 ..................................................... WDCA ................................................... 8,945,253 8,890,093 58,657 

16530 ..................................................... WDCQ–TV ............................................ 1,226,421 1,226,397 8,092 

30576 ..................................................... WDCW .................................................. 9,008,590 8,971,597 59,195 

54385 ..................................................... WDEF–TV ............................................. 1,818,758 1,592,644 10,508 

32851 ..................................................... WDFX–TV ............................................. 343,408 343,096 2,264 

43846 ..................................................... WDHN ................................................... 454,174 453,945 2,995 

71338 ..................................................... WDIO–DT .............................................. 345,803 332,242 2,192 

714 ......................................................... WDIQ ..................................................... 674,543 625,633 4,128 

53114 ..................................................... WDIV–TV .............................................. 5,555,564 5,555,436 36,655 

71427 ..................................................... WDJT–TV .............................................. 3,315,464 3,306,632 21,817 

39561 ..................................................... WDKA .................................................... 640,692 640,230 4,224 

64017 ..................................................... WDKY–TV ............................................. 1,280,920 1,245,717 8,219 

67893 ..................................................... WDLI–TV ............................................... 4,131,639 4,098,980 27,045 

72335 ..................................................... WDPB .................................................... 652,694 652,694 4,306 

83740 ..................................................... WDPM–DT ............................................ 1,493,282 1,491,552 9,841 

1283 ....................................................... WDPN–TV ............................................. 12,164,952 12,033,746 79,399 

6476 ....................................................... WDPX–TV ............................................. 7,354,860 7,283,151 48,054 

28476 ..................................................... WDRB ................................................... 2,166,593 2,149,625 14,183 

12171 ..................................................... WDSC–TV ............................................. 4,131,441 4,131,441 27,259 

17726 ..................................................... WDSE .................................................... 335,589 320,243 2,113 

71353 ..................................................... WDSI–TV .............................................. 1,155,212 1,094,624 7,222 

71357 ..................................................... WDSU ................................................... 1,746,300 1,746,300 11,522 

7908 ....................................................... WDTI ..................................................... 2,314,404 2,313,996 15,268 

65690 ..................................................... WDTN .................................................... 3,998,815 3,979,357 26,256 

70592 ..................................................... WDTV .................................................... 554,217 513,260 3,386 

25045 ..................................................... WDVM–TV ............................................ 3,360,750 2,931,025 19,339 

4110 ....................................................... WDWL ................................................... 2,449,731 2,192,227 14,464 

49421 ..................................................... WEAO ................................................... 3,954,789 3,936,003 25,970 

71363 ..................................................... WEAR–TV ............................................. 1,662,799 1,662,271 10,968 

7893 ....................................................... WEAU .................................................... 1,031,280 993,529 6,555 

61003 ..................................................... WEBA–TV ............................................. 652,051 645,245 4,257 

19561 ..................................................... WECN ................................................... 2,551,597 2,296,482 15,152 

48666 ..................................................... WECT .................................................... 1,284,078 1,284,078 8,472 

13602 ..................................................... WEDH ................................................... 5,419,331 4,792,684 31,622 

13607 ..................................................... WEDN ................................................... 3,520,804 2,654,657 17,515 

69338 ..................................................... WEDQ ................................................... 6,372,341 6,354,538 41,927 

21808 ..................................................... WEDU ................................................... 6,372,341 6,354,538 41,927 

13594 ..................................................... WEDW ................................................... 21,942,405 21,529,106 142,049 

13595 ..................................................... WEDY .................................................... 5,419,331 4,792,684 31,622 

24801 ..................................................... WEEK–TV ............................................. 730,054 729,949 4,816 

6744 ....................................................... WEFS .................................................... 4,115,849 4,115,849 27,156 

24215 ..................................................... WEHT .................................................... 854,000 838,936 5,535 

721 ......................................................... WEIQ ..................................................... 1,138,095 1,137,690 7,506 

18301 ..................................................... WEIU–TV .............................................. 442,120 442,040 2,917 

69271 ..................................................... WEKW–TV ............................................ 1,306,163 800,635 5,283 

60825 ..................................................... WELF–TV .............................................. 1,547,836 1,455,263 9,602 

26602 ..................................................... WELU .................................................... 2,052,918 1,847,568 12,190 

40761 ..................................................... WEMT ................................................... 1,708,704 1,169,182 7,714 

69237 ..................................................... WENH–TV ............................................. 4,865,355 4,679,954 30,878 

71508 ..................................................... WENY–TV ............................................. 636,768 501,692 3,310 

83946 ..................................................... WEPH .................................................... 604,510 602,977 3,978 

81508 ..................................................... WEPX–TV ............................................. 945,425 945,425 6,238 

25738 ..................................................... WESH .................................................... 4,917,201 4,906,261 32,372 

65670 ..................................................... WETA–TV ............................................. 9,177,186 9,112,861 60,127 

69944 ..................................................... WETK .................................................... 681,830 571,729 3,772 

60653 ..................................................... WETM–TV ............................................. 844,248 745,266 4,917 

18252 ..................................................... WETP–TV ............................................. 2,251,212 1,940,383 12,803 

2709 ....................................................... WEUX .................................................... 396,788 387,527 2,557 

72041 ..................................................... WEVV–TV ............................................. 751,428 750,047 4,949 

59441 ..................................................... WEWS–TV ............................................ 4,098,329 4,061,663 26,799 

72052 ..................................................... WEYI–TV ............................................... 3,802,069 3,734,694 24,642 

72054 ..................................................... WFAA .................................................... 8,238,058 8,226,984 54,282 


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Population Population Fee amount 

81669 ..................................................... WFBD .................................................... 919,012 918,335 6,059 

69532 ..................................................... WFDC–DT ............................................. 9,008,590 8,971,597 59,195 

10132 ..................................................... WFFF–TV .............................................. 644,230 566,681 3,739 

25040 ..................................................... WFFT–TV .............................................. 1,133,445 1,133,031 7,476 

11123 ..................................................... WFGC ................................................... 3,402,762 3,402,762 22,451 

6554 ....................................................... WFGX .................................................... 1,631,714 1,631,224 10,763 

13991 ..................................................... WFIE ..................................................... 742,941 741,771 4,894 

715 ......................................................... WFIQ ..................................................... 550,070 548,067 3,616 

64592 ..................................................... WFLA–TV .............................................. 6,656,303 6,639,930 43,810 

22211 ..................................................... WFLD .................................................... 10,111,733 10,105,397 66,675 

72060 ..................................................... WFLI–TV ............................................... 1,357,801 1,252,063 8,261 

39736 ..................................................... WFLX .................................................... 6,299,680 6,299,680 41,565 

72062 ..................................................... WFMJ–TV ............................................. 4,291,547 3,802,286 25,087 

72064 ..................................................... WFMY–TV ............................................. 5,399,787 5,364,129 35,393 

39884 ..................................................... WFMZ–TV ............................................. 11,348,739 10,115,153 66,740 

83943 ..................................................... WFNA .................................................... 1,511,431 1,509,839 9,962 

47902 ..................................................... WFOR–TV ............................................. 5,952,062 5,952,062 39,272 

11909 ..................................................... WFOX–TV ............................................. 1,881,740 1,881,740 12,416 

40626 ..................................................... WFPT .................................................... 6,479,421 6,072,020 40,063 

21245 ..................................................... WFPX–TV ............................................. 2,980,937 2,976,800 19,641 

25396 ..................................................... WFQX–TV ............................................. 537,914 533,910 3,523 

9635 ....................................................... WFRV–TV ............................................. 1,313,825 1,300,885 8,583 

53115 ..................................................... WFSB .................................................... 4,799,110 4,417,573 29,147 

6093 ....................................................... WFSG .................................................... 403,233 403,173 2,660 

21801 ..................................................... WFSU–TV ............................................. 592,693 592,676 3,910 

11913 ..................................................... WFTC .................................................... 4,159,690 4,144,073 27,343 

64588 ..................................................... WFTS–TV .............................................. 6,213,173 6,213,039 40,994 

16788 ..................................................... WFTT–TV .............................................. 5,291,296 5,291,296 34,912 

72076 ..................................................... WFTV .................................................... 4,707,940 4,707,940 31,063 

70649 ..................................................... WFTX–TV .............................................. 2,076,721 2,076,721 13,702 

60553 ..................................................... WFTY–DT ............................................. 5,838,625 5,724,691 37,772 

25395 ..................................................... WFUP .................................................... 235,473 234,457 1,547 

60555 ..................................................... WFUT–DT ............................................. 21,842,105 21,428,169 141,383 

22108 ..................................................... WFWA ................................................... 1,071,881 1,071,733 7,071 

9054 ....................................................... WFXB .................................................... 1,448,018 1,447,713 9,552 

3228 ....................................................... WFXG .................................................... 1,126,109 1,115,208 7,358 

70815 ..................................................... WFXL .................................................... 792,863 786,514 5,189 

19707 ..................................................... WFXP .................................................... 556,627 543,130 3,584 

24813 ..................................................... WFXR .................................................... 1,418,873 1,283,217 8,467 

6463 ....................................................... WFXT .................................................... 8,044,623 7,951,492 52,464 

22245 ..................................................... WFXU .................................................... 225,675 225,675 1,489 

43424 ..................................................... WFXV .................................................... 682,282 587,673 3,877 

25236 ..................................................... WFXW ................................................... 240,198 240,193 1,585 

41397 ..................................................... WFYI ..................................................... 2,614,535 2,613,865 17,246 

53930 ..................................................... WGAL .................................................... 6,592,850 5,851,154 38,606 

2708 ....................................................... WGBA–TV ............................................. 1,219,315 1,218,972 8,043 

24314 ..................................................... WGBC ................................................... 233,035 232,798 1,536 

72099 ..................................................... WGBH–TV ............................................. 8,264,395 8,151,180 53,781 

12498 ..................................................... WGBO–DT ............................................ 9,984,682 9,984,501 65,878 

11113 ..................................................... WGBP–TV ............................................. 1,964,065 1,956,753 12,911 

72098 ..................................................... WGBX–TV ............................................. 8,354,289 8,184,570 54,002 

72096 ..................................................... WGBY–TV ............................................. 4,556,980 3,838,887 25,329 

62388 ..................................................... WGCU ................................................... 1,789,951 1,789,951 11,810 

54275 ..................................................... WGEM–TV ............................................ 340,572 335,705 2,215 

27387 ..................................................... WGEN–TV ............................................. 47,451 47,451 313

7727 ....................................................... WGFL .................................................... 958,665 958,665 6,325 

25682 ..................................................... WGGB–TV ............................................ 3,501,457 3,092,700 20,406 

11027 ..................................................... WGGN–TV ............................................ 4,010,515 3,987,566 26,310 

9064 ....................................................... WGGS–TV ............................................ 2,978,169 2,919,596 19,263 

72106 ..................................................... WGHP ................................................... 4,716,324 4,663,025 30,767 

710 ......................................................... WGIQ .................................................... 367,358 367,140 2,422 

12520 ..................................................... WGMB–TV ............................................ 1,815,089 1,814,919 11,975 

25683 ..................................................... WGME–TV ............................................ 1,562,382 1,391,898 9,184 

24618 ..................................................... WGNM ................................................... 765,295 764,308 5,043 

72119 ..................................................... WGNO ................................................... 1,737,340 1,737,340 11,463 

9762 ....................................................... WGNT ................................................... 2,218,861 2,218,861 14,640 

72115 ..................................................... WGN–TV ............................................... 10,139,791 10,133,994 66,864 

40619 ..................................................... WGPT .................................................... 570,828 347,754 2,294 

65074 ..................................................... WGPX–TV ............................................. 3,063,562 3,053,879 20,149 


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Facility Id. Call sign 

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Population Population Fee amount 

64547 ..................................................... WGRZ ................................................... 1,896,029 1,833,959 12,100 

63329 ..................................................... WGTA .................................................... 1,174,842 1,134,460 7,485 

66285 ..................................................... WGTE–TV ............................................. 2,250,689 2,250,689 14,850 

59279 ..................................................... WGTQ ................................................... 114,517 109,995 726 

59280 ..................................................... WGTU ................................................... 369,755 364,263 2,403 

23948 ..................................................... WGTV .................................................... 6,872,895 6,793,292 44,822 

7623 ....................................................... WGTW–TV ............................................ 830,912 830,818 5,482 

24783 ..................................................... WGVK ................................................... 2,565,756 2,563,031 16,911 

24784 ..................................................... WGVU–TV ............................................. 1,943,807 1,894,218 12,498 

21536 ..................................................... WGWG .................................................. 1,146,502 1,146,502 7,565 

56642 ..................................................... WGWW ................................................. 1,742,591 1,714,951 11,315 

58262 ..................................................... WGXA ................................................... 799,532 798,664 5,270 

73371 ..................................................... WHAM–TV ............................................ 1,381,792 1,333,395 8,798 

32327 ..................................................... WHAS–TV ............................................. 2,065,124 2,034,746 13,425 

6096 ....................................................... WHA–TV ............................................... 1,715,866 1,709,075 11,276 

13950 ..................................................... WHBF–TV ............................................. 1,726,114 1,713,500 11,306 

12521 ..................................................... WHBQ–TV ............................................. 1,735,050 1,714,081 11,310 

10894 ..................................................... WHBR ................................................... 1,425,293 1,424,691 9,400 

65128 ..................................................... WHDF .................................................... 1,720,614 1,666,798 10,998 

72145 ..................................................... WHDH ................................................... 7,993,816 7,899,325 52,120 

83929 ..................................................... WHDT .................................................... 6,334,757 6,334,757 41,797 

70041 ..................................................... WHEC–TV ............................................. 1,322,761 1,278,323 8,434 

67971 ..................................................... WHFT–TV ............................................. 5,976,793 5,976,793 39,435 

41458 ..................................................... WHIO–TV .............................................. 4,041,602 4,033,560 26,613 

713 ......................................................... WHIQ ..................................................... 1,383,801 1,329,761 8,774 

61216 ..................................................... WHIZ–TV ............................................... 962,141 885,771 5,844 

18780 ..................................................... WHLA–TV ............................................. 569,415 530,529 3,500 

48668 ..................................................... WHLT .................................................... 481,036 479,959 3,167 

24582 ..................................................... WHLV–TV ............................................. 4,739,820 4,739,820 31,273 

37102 ..................................................... WHMB–TV ............................................ 3,187,327 3,126,458 20,628 

61004 ..................................................... WHMC ................................................... 838,228 838,228 5,531 

36117 ..................................................... WHME–TV ............................................ 1,490,612 1,490,518 9,834 

37106 ..................................................... WHNO ................................................... 1,592,553 1,592,553 10,508 

72300 ..................................................... WHNS ................................................... 2,753,561 2,462,848 16,250 

48693 ..................................................... WHNT–TV ............................................. 1,687,347 1,607,863 10,609 

66221 ..................................................... WHO–DT ............................................... 1,226,093 1,209,327 7,979 

6866 ....................................................... WHOI ..................................................... 716,035 715,956 4,724 

72313 ..................................................... WHP–TV ............................................... 4,219,869 3,695,568 24,383 

51980 ..................................................... WHPX–TV ............................................. 5,666,126 5,176,293 34,153 

73036 ..................................................... WHRM–TV ............................................ 537,971 535,112 3,531 

25932 ..................................................... WHRO–TV ............................................ 2,261,464 2,261,381 14,921 

68058 ..................................................... WHSG–TV ............................................. 6,744,093 6,678,392 44,064 

4688 ....................................................... WHSV–TV ............................................. 894,602 760,620 5,019 

9990 ....................................................... WHTJ .................................................... 867,445 743,025 4,902 

72326 ..................................................... WHTM–TV ............................................. 3,349,178 2,923,354 19,288 

11117 ..................................................... WHTN .................................................... 2,283,942 2,273,175 14,998 

27772 ..................................................... WHUT–TV ............................................. 8,785,956 8,745,663 57,704 

18793 ..................................................... WHWC–TV ............................................ 1,205,932 1,152,576 7,605 

72338 ..................................................... WHYY–TV ............................................. 10,984,166 10,590,279 69,875 

5360 ....................................................... WIAT ..................................................... 1,959,076 1,921,566 12,678 

63160 ..................................................... WIBW–TV .............................................. 1,312,372 1,263,123 8,334 

25684 ..................................................... WICD ..................................................... 1,220,886 1,219,775 8,048 

25686 ..................................................... WICS ..................................................... 1,060,412 1,058,572 6,984 

24970 ..................................................... WICU–TV .............................................. 704,263 654,470 4,318 

62210 ..................................................... WICZ–TV ............................................... 1,208,124 932,840 6,155 

18410 ..................................................... WIDP ..................................................... 2,258,204 2,022,801 13,346 

26025 ..................................................... WIFS ..................................................... 1,664,757 1,659,814 10,951 

720 ......................................................... WIIQ ...................................................... 330,593 326,759 2,156 

68939 ..................................................... WILL–TV ............................................... 1,148,587 1,125,681 7,427 

6863 ....................................................... WILX–TV ............................................... 3,505,808 3,321,258 21,914 

22093 ..................................................... WINK–TV .............................................. 2,135,187 2,135,187 14,088 

67787 ..................................................... WINM .................................................... 1,035,236 1,004,998 6,631 

41314 ..................................................... WINP–TV .............................................. 2,918,791 2,870,939 18,942 

3646 ....................................................... WIPB ..................................................... 2,098,072 2,097,589 13,840 

48408 ..................................................... WIPL ...................................................... 902,112 849,374 5,604 

53863 ..................................................... WIPM–TV1 ............................................ 2,018,636 1,743,992 740 

53859 ..................................................... WIPR–TV1 ............................................ 3,164,369 2,988,035 19,715 

10253 ..................................................... WIPX–TV ............................................... 2,538,971 2,537,989 16,746 

39887 ..................................................... WIRS12 ................................................. 962,531 803,553 2,946 


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Population Population Fee amount 

71336 ..................................................... WIRT–DT .............................................. 125,282 123,221 813 

13990 ..................................................... WIS ........................................................ 2,873,204 2,819,721 18,605 

65143 ..................................................... WISC–TV .............................................. 1,816,917 1,779,975 11,744 

13960 ..................................................... WISE–TV ............................................... 1,105,600 1,105,444 7,294 

39269 ..................................................... WISH–TV .............................................. 3,141,430 3,093,806 20,413 

65680 ..................................................... WISN–TV .............................................. 3,041,677 3,036,957 20,038 

73083 ..................................................... WITF–TV ............................................... 2,532,625 2,299,838 15,174 

73107 ..................................................... WITI ....................................................... 3,149,773 3,140,719 20,722 

594 ......................................................... WITN–TV ............................................... 1,942,458 1,927,751 12,719 

61005 ..................................................... WITV ..................................................... 1,002,380 1,002,380 6,614 

7780 ....................................................... WIVB–TV ............................................... 1,911,934 1,834,562 12,104 

11260 ..................................................... WIVT ..................................................... 831,941 612,317 4,040 

60571 ..................................................... WIWN .................................................... 3,387,206 3,370,697 22,240 

62207 ..................................................... WIYC ..................................................... 673,128 670,480 4,424 

73120 ..................................................... WJAC–TV .............................................. 2,152,162 1,855,359 12,242 

10259 ..................................................... WJAL ..................................................... 9,654,785 9,309,845 61,426 

50780 ..................................................... WJAR .................................................... 7,602,846 7,447,435 49,138 

35576 ..................................................... WJAX–TV .............................................. 1,909,321 1,909,321 12,598 

27140 ..................................................... WJBF ..................................................... 1,669,785 1,652,861 10,906 

73123 ..................................................... WJBK .................................................... 5,840,177 5,804,131 38,296 

37174 ..................................................... WJCL ..................................................... 1,031,857 1,031,857 6,808 

73130 ..................................................... WJCT .................................................... 1,893,148 1,892,490 12,487 

29719 ..................................................... WJEB–TV .............................................. 1,880,192 1,880,192 12,406 

65749 ..................................................... WJET–TV .............................................. 711,412 685,375 4,522 

7651 ....................................................... WJFB ..................................................... 2,745,573 2,734,787 18,044 

49699 ..................................................... WJFW–TV ............................................. 281,148 271,274 1,790 

73136 ..................................................... WJHG–TV ............................................. 912,881 905,531 5,975 

57826 ..................................................... WJHL–TV .............................................. 2,035,505 1,463,539 9,656 

68519 ..................................................... WJKT ..................................................... 645,594 645,161 4,257 

1051 ....................................................... WJLA–TV .............................................. 9,654,785 9,314,754 61,459 

86537 ..................................................... WJLP ..................................................... 22,694,994 22,426,423 147,970 

9630 ....................................................... WJMN–TV ............................................. 158,494 151,938 1,002 

61008 ..................................................... WJPM–TV ............................................. 587,058 586,836 3,872 

58340 ..................................................... WJPX6 10 12 ........................................... 2,861,004 2,653,740 17,509 

21735 ..................................................... WJRT–TV .............................................. 2,831,612 2,583,368 17,045 

23918 ..................................................... WJSP–TV .............................................. 4,678,958 4,643,904 30,640 

41210 ..................................................... WJTC .................................................... 1,517,180 1,516,056 10,003 

48667 ..................................................... WJTV ..................................................... 966,513 958,676 6,325 

73150 ..................................................... WJW ...................................................... 3,969,148 3,895,876 25,705 

61007 ..................................................... WJWJ–TV ............................................. 1,180,652 1,180,652 7,790 

58342 ..................................................... WJWN–TV6 .......................................... 1,830,695 1,568,858 2,946 

53116 ..................................................... WJXT ..................................................... 1,899,110 1,899,110 12,530 

11893 ..................................................... WJXX .................................................... 1,888,910 1,888,113 12,458 

32334 ..................................................... WJYS .................................................... 9,820,848 9,820,831 64,798 

25455 ..................................................... WJZ–TV ................................................ 10,637,240 10,228,751 67,489 

73152 ..................................................... WJZY ..................................................... 4,965,077 4,831,865 31,881 

64983 ..................................................... WKAQ–TV3 ........................................... 3,259,225 2,914,322 1,101 

6104 ....................................................... WKAR–TV ............................................. 1,713,640 1,709,038 11,276 

34171 ..................................................... WKAS .................................................... 522,877 496,277 3,274 

51570 ..................................................... WKBD–TV ............................................. 5,180,191 5,179,980 34,178 

73153 ..................................................... WKBN–TV ............................................. 4,870,043 4,522,748 29,841 

13929 ..................................................... WKBS–TV ............................................. 1,054,914 914,205 6,032 

74424 ..................................................... WKBT–DT ............................................. 905,659 860,444 5,677 

54176 ..................................................... WKBW–TV ............................................ 2,261,221 2,175,654 14,355 

53465 ..................................................... WKCF .................................................... 5,109,221 5,107,692 33,701 

73155 ..................................................... WKEF .................................................... 3,860,944 3,850,405 25,405 

34177 ..................................................... WKGB–TV ............................................. 444,266 442,639 2,921 

34196 ..................................................... WKHA .................................................... 475,212 372,027 2,455 

34207 ..................................................... WKLE .................................................... 918,947 911,337 6,013 

34212 ..................................................... WKMA–TV ............................................. 558,464 558,150 3,683 

71293 ..................................................... WKMG–TV ............................................ 4,643,692 4,643,692 30,639 

34195 ..................................................... WKMJ–TV ............................................. 1,572,974 1,565,579 10,330 

34202 ..................................................... WKMR ................................................... 457,241 422,772 2,789 

34174 ..................................................... WKMU ................................................... 339,477 339,064 2,237 

42061 ..................................................... WKNO ................................................... 1,649,295 1,647,327 10,869 

83931 ..................................................... WKNX–TV ............................................. 1,778,483 1,548,751 10,219 

34205 ..................................................... WKOH ................................................... 591,189 584,484 3,856 

67869 ..................................................... WKOI–TV .............................................. 3,996,184 3,976,552 26,237 

34211 ..................................................... WKON ................................................... 1,170,361 1,163,470 7,677 


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Population Population Fee amount 

18267 ..................................................... WKOP–TV ............................................. 1,641,367 1,465,642 9,670 

64545 ..................................................... WKOW .................................................. 1,999,166 1,978,160 13,052 

21432 ..................................................... WKPC–TV ............................................. 1,620,977 1,613,304 10,645 

65758 ..................................................... WKPD .................................................... 277,245 276,367 1,823 

34200 ..................................................... WKPI–TV ............................................... 552,999 432,287 2,852 

27504 ..................................................... WKPT–TV ............................................. 1,107,992 876,999 5,786 

58341 ..................................................... WKPV10 ................................................ 981,832 762,182 2,946 

11289 ..................................................... WKRC–TV ............................................. 3,412,677 3,359,970 22,169 

73187 ..................................................... WKRG–TV ............................................. 1,661,088 1,660,222 10,954 

73188 ..................................................... WKRN–TV ............................................. 2,843,550 2,823,383 18,629 

34222 ..................................................... WKSO–TV ............................................. 675,800 663,810 4,380 

40902 ..................................................... WKTC .................................................... 1,422,142 1,421,788 9,381 

60654 ..................................................... WKTV .................................................... 1,566,267 1,340,030 8,842 

73195 ..................................................... WKYC .................................................... 4,162,460 4,109,739 27,116 

24914 ..................................................... WKYT–TV ............................................. 1,263,314 1,247,201 8,229 

71861 ..................................................... WKYU–TV ............................................. 447,402 444,471 2,933 

34181 ..................................................... WKZT–TV .............................................. 1,092,295 1,075,603 7,097 

18819 ..................................................... WLAE–TV .............................................. 1,489,518 1,489,518 9,828 

36533 ..................................................... WLAJ ..................................................... 4,230,811 4,195,529 27,682 

2710 ....................................................... WLAX .................................................... 480,917 455,361 3,004 

68542 ..................................................... WLBT .................................................... 930,984 929,897 6,135 

39644 ..................................................... WLBZ .................................................... 374,046 364,463 2,405 

69328 ..................................................... WLED–TV ............................................. 333,929 175,095 1,155 

63046 ..................................................... WLEF–TV .............................................. 201,828 200,259 1,321 

73203 ..................................................... WLEX–TV .............................................. 1,037,124 1,032,416 6,812 

37806 ..................................................... WLFB .................................................... 756,510 656,110 4,329 

37808 ..................................................... WLFG .................................................... 1,555,609 1,240,816 8,187 

73204 ..................................................... WLFI–TV ............................................... 2,422,930 2,397,991 15,822 

73205 ..................................................... WLFL ..................................................... 4,154,373 4,151,842 27,394 

19777 ..................................................... WLII–DT 4 8 ............................................ 2,472,430 2,284,000 15,070 

37503 ..................................................... WLIO ..................................................... 1,076,204 1,052,712 6,946 

38336 ..................................................... WLIW ..................................................... 21,331,793 21,007,396 138,607 

27696 ..................................................... WLJC–TV .............................................. 1,433,034 1,317,702 8,694 

71645 ..................................................... WLJT–DT .............................................. 382,232 381,417 2,517 

53939 ..................................................... WLKY .................................................... 2,035,700 2,028,397 13,383 

11033 ..................................................... WLLA ..................................................... 2,204,047 2,203,715 14,540 

1222 ....................................................... WLMA .................................................... 1,681,703 1,678,515 11,075 

17076 ..................................................... WLMB .................................................... 2,820,328 2,813,733 18,565 

68518 ..................................................... WLMT .................................................... 1,739,879 1,737,416 11,463 

22591 ..................................................... WLNE–TV ............................................. 6,880,185 6,815,475 44,969 

74420 ..................................................... WLNS–TV ............................................. 4,230,811 4,195,529 27,682 

73206 ..................................................... WLNY–TV ............................................. 7,829,527 7,746,153 51,109 

84253 ..................................................... WLOO ................................................... 897,764 896,755 5,917 

56537 ..................................................... WLOS .................................................... 3,337,211 2,748,224 18,133 

37732 ..................................................... WLOV–TV ............................................. 608,778 606,994 4,005 

13995 ..................................................... WLOX .................................................... 1,236,798 1,224,809 8,081 

38586 ..................................................... WLPB–TV .............................................. 1,263,410 1,263,379 8,336 

73189 ..................................................... WLPX–TV .............................................. 1,012,910 963,892 6,360 

66358 ..................................................... WLRN–TV ............................................. 6,010,422 6,010,422 39,657 

73226 ..................................................... WLS–TV ................................................ 10,333,090 10,326,952 68,137 

73230 ..................................................... WLTV–DT .............................................. 5,988,029 5,988,029 39,509 

37176 ..................................................... WLTX .................................................... 1,614,789 1,611,719 10,634 

37179 ..................................................... WLTZ ..................................................... 738,023 734,057 4,843 

21259 ..................................................... WLUC–TV ............................................. 103,185 95,367 629 

4150 ....................................................... WLUK–TV ............................................. 1,237,211 1,236,394 8,158 

73238 ..................................................... WLVI ...................................................... 7,993,816 7,899,325 52,120 

36989 ..................................................... WLVT–TV .............................................. 11,348,739 10,115,153 66,740 

3978 ....................................................... WLWC ................................................... 3,398,164 3,257,998 21,496 

46979 ..................................................... WLWT ................................................... 3,499,610 3,489,652 23,025 

54452 ..................................................... WLXI ...................................................... 3,243,843 3,015,382 19,895 

55350 ..................................................... WLYH .................................................... 3,349,178 2,923,354 19,288 

43192 ..................................................... WMAB–TV ............................................. 389,089 384,767 2,539 

43170 ..................................................... WMAE–TV ............................................. 692,999 663,737 4,379 

43197 ..................................................... WMAH–TV ............................................ 1,302,245 1,301,790 8,589 

43176 ..................................................... WMAO–TV ............................................ 333,490 333,321 2,199 

47905 ..................................................... WMAQ–TV ............................................ 10,069,653 10,068,069 66,429 

59442 ..................................................... WMAR–TV ............................................ 10,025,750 9,879,744 65,187 

43184 ..................................................... WMAU–TV ............................................ 637,434 631,358 4,166 

43193 ..................................................... WMAV–TV ............................................. 1,018,601 1,018,556 6,720 


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Population Population Fee amount 

43169 ..................................................... WMAW–TV ............................................ 731,384 716,614 4,728 

46991 ..................................................... WMAZ–TV ............................................. 1,238,176 1,180,117 7,786 

66398 ..................................................... WMBB ................................................... 990,632 964,744 6,365 

43952 ..................................................... WMBC–TV ............................................ 22,446,503 21,778,765 143,696 

42121 ..................................................... WMBD–TV ............................................ 720,722 720,669 4,755 

83969 ..................................................... WMBF–TV ............................................. 526,232 526,232 3,472 

60829 ..................................................... WMCF–TV ............................................. 644,916 641,833 4,235 

9739 ....................................................... WMCN–TV ............................................ 10,984,166 10,590,279 69,875 

19184 ..................................................... WMC–TV ............................................... 2,057,112 2,053,563 13,549 

189357 ................................................... WMDE ................................................... 6,933,795 6,802,466 44,883 

73255 ..................................................... WMDN ................................................... 259,822 259,616 1,713 

16455 ..................................................... WMDT ................................................... 790,315 790,315 5,214 

39656 ..................................................... WMEA–TV ............................................. 965,365 911,355 6,013 

39648 ..................................................... WMEB–TV ............................................. 411,335 396,677 2,617 

70537 ..................................................... WMEC ................................................... 199,187 198,698 1,311 

39649 ..................................................... WMED–TV ............................................ 28,850 27,884 184 

39662 ..................................................... WMEM–TV ............................................ 66,343 64,625 426 

41893 ..................................................... WMFD–TV ............................................. 1,637,011 1,379,386 9,101 

41436 ..................................................... WMFP ................................................... 6,230,964 5,959,061 39,318 

61111 ..................................................... WMGM–TV ............................................ 830,912 830,818 5,482 

43847 ..................................................... WMGT–TV ............................................ 614,625 614,040 4,051 

73263 ..................................................... WMHT ................................................... 1,729,302 1,559,066 10,287 

68545 ..................................................... WMLW–TV ............................................ 1,863,951 1,863,679 12,297 

53819 ..................................................... WMOR–TV ............................................ 6,400,456 6,400,333 42,229 

81503 ..................................................... WMOW .................................................. 122,110 106,904 705 

65944 ..................................................... WMPB ................................................... 8,059,368 7,940,127 52,389 

43168 ..................................................... WMPN–TV ............................................ 843,756 841,772 5,554 

65942 ..................................................... WMPT ................................................... 9,500,117 9,442,413 62,301 

60827 ..................................................... WMPV–TV ............................................. 1,565,537 1,564,599 10,323 

10221 ..................................................... WMSN–TV ............................................ 2,030,916 2,010,636 13,266 

2174 ....................................................... WMTJ 11 ................................................ 2,764,573 2,492,464 16,445 

6870 ....................................................... WMTV ................................................... 1,628,641 1,625,206 10,723 

73288 ..................................................... WMTW .................................................. 2,041,342 1,737,673 11,465 

23935 ..................................................... WMUM–TV ............................................ 926,604 921,419 6,080 

73292 ..................................................... WMUR–TV ............................................ 5,652,739 5,453,759 35,984 

42663 ..................................................... WMVS ................................................... 3,216,887 3,155,770 20,822 

42665 ..................................................... WMVT ................................................... 3,216,887 3,155,770 20,822 

81946 ..................................................... WMWC–TV ........................................... 935,338 912,437 6,020 

56548 ..................................................... WMYA–TV ............................................. 1,808,659 1,723,755 11,373 

74211 ..................................................... WMYD ................................................... 5,840,155 5,839,880 38,532 

20624 ..................................................... WMYT–TV ............................................. 4,965,077 4,831,865 31,881 

25544 ..................................................... WMYV ................................................... 4,406,813 4,379,408 28,895 

73310 ..................................................... WNAB .................................................... 2,600,886 2,591,235 17,097 

73311 ..................................................... WNAC–TV ............................................. 7,817,084 7,459,610 49,219 

47535 ..................................................... WNBC ................................................... 23,283,577 22,722,761 149,925 

83965 ..................................................... WNBW–DT ............................................ 1,557,530 1,550,637 10,231 

72307 ..................................................... WNCF .................................................... 665,079 658,994 4,348 

50782 ..................................................... WNCN ................................................... 4,201,973 4,186,944 27,625 

57838 ..................................................... WNCT–TV ............................................. 2,034,787 1,975,930 13,037 

41674 ..................................................... WNDU–TV ............................................. 1,901,588 1,870,311 12,340 

28462 ..................................................... WNDY–TV ............................................. 3,141,430 3,093,806 20,413 

71928 ..................................................... WNED–TV ............................................. 1,408,141 1,390,745 9,176 

60931 ..................................................... WNEH ................................................... 1,389,794 1,383,193 9,126 

41221 ..................................................... WNEM–TV ............................................ 1,437,726 1,434,104 9,462 

49439 ..................................................... WNEO ................................................... 3,343,598 3,265,373 21,545 

73318 ..................................................... WNEP–TV ............................................. 3,472,501 2,879,994 19,002 

18795 ..................................................... WNET .................................................... 22,428,695 21,915,470 144,598 

51864 ..................................................... WNEU ................................................... 7,676,529 7,606,661 50,189 

23942 ..................................................... WNGH–TV ............................................ 6,461,522 6,281,764 41,447 

67802 ..................................................... WNIN ..................................................... 907,713 891,200 5,880 

41671 ..................................................... WNIT ..................................................... 1,335,767 1,335,767 8,813 

48457 ..................................................... WNJB .................................................... 22,145,547 21,374,668 141,030 

48477 ..................................................... WNJN .................................................... 22,145,547 21,374,668 141,030 

48481 ..................................................... WNJS .................................................... 7,729,626 7,710,589 50,874 

48465 ..................................................... WNJT .................................................... 7,729,626 7,710,589 50,874 

73333 ..................................................... WNJU .................................................... 23,283,577 22,722,761 149,925 

73336 ..................................................... WNJX–TV2 ........................................... 1,446,990 1,265,826 905 

61217 ..................................................... WNKY .................................................... 414,184 412,652 2,723 

71905 ..................................................... WNLO .................................................... 1,911,934 1,834,562 12,104 


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Population Population Fee amount 

4318 ....................................................... WNMU ................................................... 178,504 177,692 1,172 

73344 ..................................................... WNNE ................................................... 801,186 684,501 4,516 

54280 ..................................................... WNOL–TV ............................................. 1,730,074 1,730,074 11,415 

71676 ..................................................... WNPB–TV ............................................. 2,094,971 1,923,306 12,690 

62137 ..................................................... WNPI–DT .............................................. 159,208 154,143 1,017 

41398 ..................................................... WNPT .................................................... 2,692,492 2,657,273 17,533 

28468 ..................................................... WNPX–TV ............................................. 2,494,581 2,470,662 16,301 

61009 ..................................................... WNSC–TV ............................................. 2,860,897 2,853,300 18,826 

61010 ..................................................... WNTV .................................................... 2,775,252 2,572,161 16,971 

16539 ..................................................... WNTZ–TV ............................................. 328,336 327,661 2,162 

7933 ....................................................... WNUV ................................................... 9,944,268 9,735,378 64,234 

9999 ....................................................... WNVC ................................................... 867,445 743,025 4,902 

10019 ..................................................... WNVT .................................................... 1,894,231 1,892,374 12,486 

73354 ..................................................... WNWO–TV ............................................ 2,915,507 2,915,507 19,237 

136751 ................................................... WNYA .................................................... 1,932,105 1,656,014 10,926 

30303 ..................................................... WNYB .................................................... 1,784,805 1,758,025 11,599 

6048 ....................................................... WNYE–TV ............................................. 20,693,079 20,445,674 134,901 

34329 ..................................................... WNYI ..................................................... 1,609,642 1,329,569 8,772 

67784 ..................................................... WNYO–TV ............................................. 1,449,480 1,428,169 9,423 

73363 ..................................................... WNYT .................................................... 1,691,742 1,539,006 10,154 

22206 ..................................................... WNYW ................................................... 21,377,740 21,043,915 138,848 

69618 ..................................................... WOAI–TV .............................................. 3,063,753 3,050,610 20,128 

66804 ..................................................... WOAY–TV ............................................. 536,548 414,046 2,732 

41225 ..................................................... WOFL .................................................... 4,897,034 4,891,577 32,275 

70651 ..................................................... WOGX ................................................... 1,262,333 1,262,333 8,329 

8661 ....................................................... WOI–DT ................................................ 1,278,698 1,277,340 8,428 

39746 ..................................................... WOIO .................................................... 3,819,462 3,739,439 24,673 

71725 ..................................................... WOLE–DT 4 ........................................... 1,581,955 1,411,809 5,385 

73375 ..................................................... WOLF–TV ............................................. 3,025,477 2,531,097 16,700 

60963 ..................................................... WOLO–TV ............................................. 2,854,959 2,814,886 18,573 

36838 ..................................................... WOOD–TV ............................................ 2,637,147 2,631,110 17,360 

67602 ..................................................... WOPX–TV ............................................. 4,677,102 4,676,992 30,859 

64865 ..................................................... WORA–TV3 13 ....................................... 3,172,055 2,933,387 19,354 

73901 ..................................................... WORO–DT ............................................ 2,847,102 2,661,536 17,561 

60357 ..................................................... WOST .................................................... 1,055,465 918,659 6,061 

66185 ..................................................... WOSU–TV ............................................. 3,073,523 3,013,857 19,885 

131 ......................................................... WOTF–TV ............................................. 4,204,625 4,204,625 27,742 

10212 ..................................................... WOTV .................................................... 2,493,328 2,492,908 16,448 

50147 ..................................................... WOUB–TV ............................................. 739,667 721,384 4,760 

50141 ..................................................... WOUC–TV ............................................ 1,680,457 1,618,502 10,679 

23342 ..................................................... WOWK–TV ............................................ 1,098,995 1,028,502 6,786 

65528 ..................................................... WOWT ................................................... 1,516,978 1,514,052 9,990 

31570 ..................................................... WPAN .................................................... 1,392,393 1,392,261 9,186 

51988 ..................................................... WPBF .................................................... 3,601,603 3,601,603 23,763 

21253 ..................................................... WPBN–TV ............................................. 452,157 440,310 2,905 

62136 ..................................................... WPBS–TV ............................................. 332,147 296,972 1,959 

13456 ..................................................... WPBT .................................................... 5,976,331 5,976,331 39,432 

13924 ..................................................... WPCB–TV ............................................. 2,920,794 2,802,648 18,492 

64033 ..................................................... WPCH–TV ............................................. 6,826,973 6,747,200 44,518 

4354 ....................................................... WPCT .................................................... 207,688 207,286 1,368 

17012 ..................................................... WPDE–TV ............................................. 1,845,347 1,838,747 12,132 

52527 ..................................................... WPEC .................................................... 6,332,850 6,332,850 41,784 

84088 ..................................................... WPFO .................................................... 1,390,230 1,272,952 8,399 

54728 ..................................................... WPGA–TV ............................................. 575,813 575,578 3,798 

60820 ..................................................... WPGD–TV ............................................. 2,787,190 2,772,517 18,293 

73875 ..................................................... WPGH–TV ............................................. 3,209,933 3,099,658 20,452 

2942 ....................................................... WPGX ................................................... 448,453 445,686 2,941 

73879 ..................................................... WPHL–TV ............................................. 10,944,731 10,756,717 70,973 

73881 ..................................................... WPIX ..................................................... 22,259,872 21,818,842 143,961 

69880 ..................................................... WPKD–TV ............................................. 3,366,547 3,181,216 20,990 

53113 ..................................................... WPLG .................................................... 6,165,413 6,165,413 40,679 

11906 ..................................................... WPMI–TV .............................................. 1,609,741 1,609,491 10,619 

10213 ..................................................... WPMT ................................................... 2,532,625 2,299,838 15,174 

18798 ..................................................... WPNE–TV ............................................. 1,210,150 1,209,366 7,979 

73907 ..................................................... WPNT .................................................... 3,148,917 3,050,465 20,127 

28480 ..................................................... WPPT .................................................... 11,348,739 10,115,153 66,740 

51984 ..................................................... WPPX–TV ............................................. 8,429,105 8,212,096 54,183 

47404 ..................................................... WPRI–TV .............................................. 7,754,340 7,480,561 49,357 

51991 ..................................................... WPSD–TV ............................................. 852,232 848,332 5,597 


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Population Population Fee amount 

12499 ..................................................... WPSG ................................................... 11,342,493 11,068,585 73,031 

66219 ..................................................... WPSU–TV ............................................. 1,016,983 842,529 5,559 

73905 ..................................................... WPTA .................................................... 1,136,029 1,135,873 7,494 

25067 ..................................................... WPTD .................................................... 3,535,155 3,522,151 23,239 

25065 ..................................................... WPTO .................................................... 3,080,289 3,066,947 20,236 

59443 ..................................................... WPTV–TV ............................................. 6,414,108 6,414,108 42,320 

57476 ..................................................... WPTZ .................................................... 801,186 684,501 4,516 

8616 ....................................................... WPVI–TV ............................................... 11,997,071 11,834,791 78,086 

48772 ..................................................... WPWR–TV ............................................ 10,111,733 10,105,397 66,675 

51969 ..................................................... WPXA–TV ............................................. 7,486,662 7,341,812 48,441 

71236 ..................................................... WPXC–TV ............................................. 1,812,411 1,812,329 11,958 

5800 ....................................................... WPXD–TV ............................................. 5,357,614 5,357,504 35,349 

37104 ..................................................... WPXE–TV ............................................. 3,105,562 3,094,581 20,418 

48406 ..................................................... WPXG–TV ............................................. 2,760,323 2,697,351 17,797 

73312 ..................................................... WPXH–TV ............................................. 1,558,487 1,543,110 10,181 

73910 ..................................................... WPXI ..................................................... 3,270,399 3,179,997 20,982 

2325 ....................................................... WPXJ–TV .............................................. 2,383,753 2,319,308 15,303 

52628 ..................................................... WPXK–TV ............................................. 1,897,932 1,672,850 11,037 

21729 ..................................................... WPXL–TV .............................................. 1,738,354 1,738,354 11,470 

48608 ..................................................... WPXM–TV ............................................. 5,673,283 5,673,283 37,432 

73356 ..................................................... WPXN–TV ............................................. 22,193,311 21,756,322 143,548 

27290 ..................................................... WPXP–TV ............................................. 6,117,297 6,117,297 40,362 

50063 ..................................................... WPXQ–TV ............................................. 3,398,164 3,257,998 21,496 

70251 ..................................................... WPXR–TV ............................................. 1,361,522 1,199,794 7,916 

40861 ..................................................... WPXS .................................................... 2,313,093 2,228,599 14,704 

53065 ..................................................... WPXT .................................................... 1,058,317 1,005,248 6,633 

37971 ..................................................... WPXU–TV ............................................. 764,835 764,835 5,046 

67077 ..................................................... WPXV–TV ............................................. 1,997,620 1,997,620 13,180 

74091 ..................................................... WPXW–TV ............................................ 8,918,745 8,866,240 58,499 

21726 ..................................................... WPXX–TV ............................................. 1,563,942 1,560,675 10,297 

73319 ..................................................... WQAD–TV ............................................. 1,077,293 1,065,179 7,028 

65130 ..................................................... WQCW .................................................. 1,234,953 1,165,995 7,693 

71561 ..................................................... WQEC ................................................... 177,193 175,191 1,156 

41315 ..................................................... WQED ................................................... 3,491,971 3,385,114 22,335 

3255 ....................................................... WQHA ................................................... 2,936,821 2,543,288 16,781 

60556 ..................................................... WQHS–DT ............................................ 3,982,203 3,936,334 25,972 

53716 ..................................................... WQLN .................................................... 573,688 553,172 3,650 

52075 ..................................................... WQMY ................................................... 403,099 246,363 1,626 

64550 ..................................................... WQOW .................................................. 383,460 372,929 2,461 

5468 ....................................................... WQPT–TV ............................................. 928,221 922,909 6,089 

64690 ..................................................... WQPX–TV ............................................. 1,624,976 1,207,503 7,967 

52408 ..................................................... WQRF–TV ............................................. 1,384,090 1,360,850 8,979 

2175 ....................................................... WQTO 11 ............................................... 2,533,848 1,714,503 4,010 

8688 ....................................................... WRAL–TV ............................................. 4,258,430 4,255,027 28,075 

10133 ..................................................... WRAY–TV ............................................. 4,701,102 4,682,210 30,893 

64611 ..................................................... WRAZ .................................................... 4,206,845 4,204,439 27,741 

136749 ................................................... WRBJ–TV .............................................. 1,029,422 1,026,759 6,775 

3359 ....................................................... WRBL .................................................... 1,573,722 1,534,121 10,122 

57221 ..................................................... WRBU ................................................... 2,964,043 2,960,986 19,537 

54940 ..................................................... WRBW ................................................... 4,929,252 4,926,807 32,507 

59137 ..................................................... WRCB ................................................... 1,674,932 1,436,942 9,481 

47904 ..................................................... WRC–TV ............................................... 9,040,003 8,996,367 59,358 

54963 ..................................................... WRDC ................................................... 4,380,924 4,374,069 28,860 

55454 ..................................................... WRDQ ................................................... 4,765,929 4,765,929 31,446 

73937 ..................................................... WRDW–TV ............................................ 1,630,465 1,580,144 10,426 

66174 ..................................................... WREG–TV ............................................. 1,645,112 1,638,826 10,813 

61011 ..................................................... WRET–TV ............................................. 2,775,252 2,572,161 16,971 

73940 ..................................................... WREX .................................................... 2,367,561 2,071,361 13,667 

54443 ..................................................... WRFB13 ................................................ 2,361,435 2,105,790 1,101 

73942 ..................................................... WRGB ................................................... 1,773,206 1,559,637 10,290 

411 ......................................................... WRGT–TV ............................................. 3,563,572 3,528,799 23,283 

74416 ..................................................... WRIC–TV .............................................. 2,264,724 2,197,233 14,497 

61012 ..................................................... WRJA–TV .............................................. 1,227,284 1,220,205 8,051 

412 ......................................................... WRLH–TV ............................................. 2,215,949 2,152,568 14,203 

61013 ..................................................... WRLK–TV ............................................. 1,268,677 1,267,713 8,364 

43870 ..................................................... WRLM ................................................... 3,954,789 3,936,003 25,970 

74156 ..................................................... WRNN–TV ............................................. 21,146,732 20,904,564 137,928 

73964 ..................................................... WROC–TV ............................................ 1,210,157 1,192,546 7,868 

159007 ................................................... WRPT .................................................... 108,521 108,009 713 


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Population Population Fee amount 

20590 ..................................................... WRPX–TV ............................................. 2,980,937 2,976,800 19,641 

62009 ..................................................... WRSP–TV ............................................. 1,062,091 1,060,251 6,996 

40877 ..................................................... WRTV .................................................... 3,148,448 3,125,475 20,622 

15320 ..................................................... WRUA ................................................... 2,624,204 2,339,222 15,434 

71580 ..................................................... WRXY–TV ............................................. 2,114,529 2,114,529 13,952 

48662 ..................................................... WSAV–TV ............................................. 1,094,897 1,094,884 7,224 

6867 ....................................................... WSAW–TV ............................................ 657,843 651,328 4,297 

36912 ..................................................... WSAZ–TV ............................................. 1,173,019 1,103,266 7,279 

56092 ..................................................... WSBE–TV ............................................. 8,044,866 7,776,757 51,311 

73982 ..................................................... WSBK–TV ............................................. 7,834,658 7,766,985 51,247 

72053 ..................................................... WSBS–TV ............................................. 47,386 47,386 313

73983 ..................................................... WSBT–TV ............................................. 1,790,673 1,780,628 11,749 

23960 ..................................................... WSB–TV ................................................ 6,772,503 6,695,450 44,177 

69446 ..................................................... WSCG ................................................... 961,649 961,649 6,345 

64971 ..................................................... WSCV .................................................... 6,029,382 6,029,382 39,782 

70536 ..................................................... WSEC .................................................... 517,830 517,364 3,414 

49711 ..................................................... WSEE–TV ............................................. 585,062 562,271 3,710 

21258 ..................................................... WSES .................................................... 1,905,067 1,866,312 12,314 

73988 ..................................................... WSET–TV ............................................. 1,587,650 1,345,990 8,881 

13993 ..................................................... WSFA .................................................... 1,206,335 1,168,069 7,707 

11118 ..................................................... WSFJ–TV .............................................. 1,911,871 1,902,328 12,552 

10203 ..................................................... WSFL–TV .............................................. 5,890,244 5,890,244 38,864 

72871 ..................................................... WSFX–TV ............................................. 1,088,964 1,088,964 7,185 

73999 ..................................................... WSIL–TV ............................................... 650,734 647,093 4,270 

4297 ....................................................... WSIU–TV .............................................. 994,418 936,746 6,181 

74007 ..................................................... WSJV .................................................... 1,686,953 1,680,493 11,088 

78908 ..................................................... WSKA .................................................... 530,610 416,302 2,747 

74034 ..................................................... WSKG–TV ............................................. 866,172 616,130 4,065 

76324 ..................................................... WSKY–TV ............................................. 2,003,325 2,002,894 13,215 

776220 ................................................... WSLN .................................................... 3,269,796 3,020,118 19,927 

57840 ..................................................... WSLS–TV .............................................. 1,436,974 1,276,869 8,425 

21737 ..................................................... WSMH ................................................... 2,350,370 2,335,477 15,409 

41232 ..................................................... WSMV–TV ............................................. 2,883,773 2,837,323 18,721 

70119 ..................................................... WSNS–TV ............................................. 10,069,653 10,068,069 66,429 

74070 ..................................................... WSOC–TV ............................................. 4,156,321 4,085,565 26,957 

66391 ..................................................... WSPA–TV ............................................. 3,717,232 3,549,667 23,421 

64352 ..................................................... WSPX–TV ............................................. 1,285,581 1,167,040 7,700 

17611 ..................................................... WSRE .................................................... 1,490,766 1,489,946 9,831 

63867 ..................................................... WSST–TV ............................................. 312,974 312,260 2,060 

60341 ..................................................... WSTE–DT ............................................. 3,284,058 3,220,155 21,247 

21252 ..................................................... WSTM–TV ............................................. 1,437,543 1,367,590 9,023 

11204 ..................................................... WSTR–TV ............................................. 3,424,743 3,411,973 22,512 

19776 ..................................................... WSUR–DT 8 .......................................... 3,276,102 3,182,722 5,385 

2370 ....................................................... WSVI ..................................................... 41,004 41,004 271 

63840 ..................................................... WSVN .................................................... 6,165,386 6,165,386 40,679 

73374 ..................................................... WSWB ................................................... 1,516,774 1,088,360 7,181 

28155 ..................................................... WSWG .................................................. 389,103 389,030 2,567 

71680 ..................................................... WSWP–TV ............................................ 849,038 633,378 4,179 

74094 ..................................................... WSYM–TV ............................................. 1,607,593 1,607,277 10,605 

73113 ..................................................... WSYR–TV ............................................. 1,314,500 1,226,575 8,093 

40758 ..................................................... WSYT .................................................... 1,962,530 1,731,744 11,426 

56549 ..................................................... WSYX .................................................... 2,871,413 2,825,664 18,644 

65681 ..................................................... WTAE–TV ............................................. 2,985,875 2,865,692 18,908 

23341 ..................................................... WTAJ–TV .............................................. 1,158,024 925,907 6,109 

4685 ....................................................... WTAP–TV ............................................. 489,083 469,004 3,094 

416 ......................................................... WTAT–TV .............................................. 1,284,148 1,284,148 8,473 

67993 ..................................................... WTBY–TV ............................................. 16,997,114 16,897,718 111,491 

29715 ..................................................... WTCE–TV ............................................. 2,964,583 2,964,583 19,560 

65667 ..................................................... WTCI ..................................................... 1,276,295 1,159,269 7,649 

67786 ..................................................... WTCT .................................................... 590,643 586,819 3,872 

28954 ..................................................... WTCV5 9 ............................................... 2,861,004 2,653,740 17,509 

74422 ..................................................... WTEN .................................................... 1,913,356 1,621,808 10,701 

9881 ....................................................... WTGL .................................................... 4,516,827 4,516,827 29,802 

27245 ..................................................... WTGS .................................................... 1,064,292 1,064,066 7,021 

70655 ..................................................... WTHI–TV ............................................... 966,268 914,388 6,033 

70162 ..................................................... WTHR .................................................... 3,175,603 3,122,761 20,604 

147 ......................................................... WTIC–TV ............................................... 5,397,501 4,767,795 31,458 

26681 ..................................................... WTIN–TV7 ............................................ 3,277,279 3,162,469 905 

66536 ..................................................... WTIU ..................................................... 1,690,704 1,689,678 11,148 


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Facility Id. Call sign 

Service area Terrain limited Terrain limited 

Population Population Fee amount 

1002 ....................................................... WTJP–TV .............................................. 2,037,103 2,002,301 13,211 

4593 ....................................................... WTJR .................................................... 316,974 316,852 2,091 

70287 ..................................................... WTJX–TV .............................................. 112,125 104,561 690 

47401 ..................................................... WTKR .................................................... 2,242,929 2,242,846 14,798 

82735 ..................................................... WTLF ..................................................... 883,350 883,326 5,828 

23486 ..................................................... WTLH .................................................... 1,082,589 1,082,542 7,143 

67781 ..................................................... WTLJ ..................................................... 1,738,667 1,736,853 11,460 

65046 ..................................................... WTLV .................................................... 2,041,165 2,022,822 13,347 

74098 ..................................................... WTMJ–TV ............................................. 3,139,304 3,123,411 20,608 

74109 ..................................................... WTNH .................................................... 7,999,974 7,453,267 49,177 

19200 ..................................................... WTNZ .................................................... 1,790,817 1,598,570 10,547 

590 ......................................................... WTOC–TV ............................................. 1,061,993 1,061,993 7,007 

74112 ..................................................... WTOG ................................................... 6,239,245 6,236,871 41,151 

4686 ....................................................... WTOK–TV ............................................. 391,847 386,112 2,548 

13992 ..................................................... WTOL .................................................... 4,534,147 4,527,590 29,873 

21254 ..................................................... WTOM–TV ............................................ 120,159 116,524 769 

74122 ..................................................... WTOV–TV ............................................. 3,866,114 3,605,421 23,789 

82574 ..................................................... WTPC–TV ............................................. 2,138,494 2,132,635 14,071 

86496 ..................................................... WTPX–TV ............................................. 258,246 258,154 1,703 

6869 ....................................................... WTRF–TV ............................................. 2,938,363 2,562,114 16,905 

67798 ..................................................... WTSF .................................................... 879,853 811,994 5,358 

11290 ..................................................... WTSP .................................................... 6,538,906 6,515,239 42,988 

4108 ....................................................... WTTA .................................................... 6,656,303 6,639,930 43,810 

74137 ..................................................... WTTE .................................................... 2,926,672 2,885,004 19,035 

22207 ..................................................... WTTG .................................................... 8,945,253 8,890,093 58,657 

56526 ..................................................... WTTK .................................................... 3,074,975 3,055,143 20,158 

74138 ..................................................... WTTO .................................................... 1,966,252 1,931,949 12,747 

56523 ..................................................... WTTV .................................................... 2,752,635 2,749,080 18,138 

10802 ..................................................... WTTW ................................................... 9,929,487 9,929,071 65,512 

74148 ..................................................... WTVA .................................................... 807,017 794,561 5,243 

22590 ..................................................... WTVC .................................................... 1,658,814 1,434,931 9,468 

8617 ....................................................... WTVD .................................................... 4,201,042 4,188,018 27,633 

55305 ..................................................... WTVE .................................................... 5,368,807 5,365,301 35,400 

36504 ..................................................... WTVF .................................................... 2,816,921 2,798,755 18,466 

74150 ..................................................... WTVG .................................................... 4,440,934 4,429,742 29,227 

74151 ..................................................... WTVH .................................................... 1,375,016 1,313,054 8,664 

10645 ..................................................... WTVI ..................................................... 3,286,073 3,261,428 21,519 

63154 ..................................................... WTVJ ..................................................... 6,009,434 6,009,434 39,650 

52280 ..................................................... WTVK .................................................... 7,403,075 7,395,979 48,799 

595 ......................................................... WTVM ................................................... 1,577,223 1,471,502 9,709 

72945 ..................................................... WTVO .................................................... 1,413,778 1,400,377 9,240 

28311 ..................................................... WTVP .................................................... 660,258 660,214 4,356 

51597 ..................................................... WTVQ–DT ............................................. 1,060,102 1,054,409 6,957 

57832 ..................................................... WTVR–TV ............................................. 1,998,729 1,990,377 13,133 

16817 ..................................................... WTVS .................................................... 5,607,125 5,606,929 36,995 

68569 ..................................................... WTVT .................................................... 6,511,462 6,491,829 42,833 

3661 ....................................................... WTVW ................................................... 839,062 833,035 5,496 

35575 ..................................................... WTVX .................................................... 3,558,645 3,556,727 23,467 

4152 ....................................................... WTVY .................................................... 1,032,612 1,029,898 6,795 

40759 ..................................................... WTVZ–TV .............................................. 2,246,928 2,246,845 14,825 

66908 ..................................................... WTWC–TV ............................................ 1,078,213 1,078,166 7,114 

20426 ..................................................... WTWO ................................................... 716,304 710,680 4,689 

81692 ..................................................... WTWV ................................................... 1,529,924 1,528,555 10,085 

51568 ..................................................... WTXF–TV .............................................. 11,330,716 11,023,958 72,736 

41065 ..................................................... WTXL–TV .............................................. 1,071,056 1,070,908 7,066 

8532 ....................................................... WUAB .................................................... 3,819,462 3,739,439 24,673 

12855 ..................................................... WUCF–TV ............................................. 4,516,827 4,516,827 29,802 

36395 ..................................................... WUCW .................................................. 4,213,867 4,205,494 27,748 

69440 ..................................................... WUFT .................................................... 1,524,792 1,524,792 10,061 

413 ......................................................... WUHF .................................................... 1,161,377 1,157,795 7,639 

8156 ....................................................... WUJA .................................................... 2,449,731 2,192,227 14,464 

69080 ..................................................... WUNC–TV ............................................. 4,701,102 4,682,210 30,893 

69292 ..................................................... WUND–TV ............................................. 1,526,704 1,526,704 10,073 

69114 ..................................................... WUNE–TV ............................................. 3,449,284 2,886,515 19,045 

69300 ..................................................... WUNF–TV ............................................. 2,825,704 2,517,064 16,608 

69124 ..................................................... WUNG–TV ............................................ 4,065,099 4,049,218 26,717 

60551 ..................................................... WUNI ..................................................... 7,755,236 7,627,170 50,324 

69332 ..................................................... WUNJ–TV ............................................. 1,224,449 1,224,449 8,079 

69149 ..................................................... WUNK–TV ............................................. 2,105,575 2,099,533 13,853 


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Facility Id. Call sign 

Service area Terrain limited Terrain limited 

Population Population Fee amount 

69360 ..................................................... WUNL–TV ............................................. 3,243,843 3,015,382 19,895 

69444 ..................................................... WUNM–TV ............................................ 1,370,547 1,370,547 9,043 

69397 ..................................................... WUNP–TV ............................................. 1,488,708 1,474,989 9,732 

69416 ..................................................... WUNU ................................................... 1,212,006 1,210,875 7,989 

83822 ..................................................... WUNW .................................................. 2,012,283 1,476,883 9,744 

6900 ....................................................... WUPA .................................................... 6,845,271 6,764,030 44,629 

13938 ..................................................... WUPL .................................................... 1,833,116 1,833,116 12,095 

10897 ..................................................... WUPV .................................................... 2,142,407 2,122,016 14,001 

19190 ..................................................... WUPW ................................................... 2,136,541 2,135,020 14,087 

23128 ..................................................... WUPX–TV ............................................. 1,182,585 1,166,267 7,695 

65593 ..................................................... WUSA .................................................... 9,654,785 9,309,845 61,426 

4301 ....................................................... WUSI–TV .............................................. 320,658 320,658 2,116 

60552 ..................................................... WUTB .................................................... 9,293,641 9,148,848 60,364 

30577 ..................................................... WUTF–TV ............................................. 8,479,857 8,266,141 54,540 

57837 ..................................................... WUTR .................................................... 511,394 470,311 3,103 

415 ......................................................... WUTV .................................................... 1,611,128 1,579,265 10,420 

16517 ..................................................... WUVC–DT ............................................. 4,224,285 4,208,453 27,767 

48813 ..................................................... WUVG–DT ............................................ 6,908,879 6,834,542 45,094 

3072 ....................................................... WUVN ................................................... 1,236,426 1,156,397 7,630 

60560 ..................................................... WUVP–DT ............................................. 10,944,731 10,756,717 70,973 

9971 ....................................................... WUXP–TV ............................................. 2,749,827 2,737,094 18,059 

417 ......................................................... WVAH–TV ............................................. 1,295,710 1,222,075 8,063 

23947 ..................................................... WVAN–TV ............................................. 1,118,534 1,117,845 7,376 

65387 ..................................................... WVBT .................................................... 1,964,109 1,964,109 12,959 

72342 ..................................................... WVCY–TV ............................................. 3,149,773 3,140,719 20,722 

60559 ..................................................... WVEA–TV ............................................. 5,324,315 5,322,343 35,117 

74167 ..................................................... WVEC .................................................... 2,189,627 2,184,435 14,413 

5802 ....................................................... WVEN–TV ............................................. 4,749,513 4,749,513 31,337 

61573 ..................................................... WVEO 5 ................................................. 962,531 803,553 2,946 

69946 ..................................................... WVER .................................................... 903,858 770,412 5,083 

10976 ..................................................... WVFX .................................................... 688,514 596,278 3,934 

47929 ..................................................... WVIA–TV ............................................... 3,472,501 2,879,994 19,002 

3667 ....................................................... WVII–TV ................................................ 368,499 348,813 2,301 

70309 ..................................................... WVIR–TV .............................................. 2,140,100 2,107,081 13,903 

74170 ..................................................... WVIT ..................................................... 5,920,252 5,425,459 35,797 

18753 ..................................................... WVIZ ..................................................... 3,694,957 3,687,740 24,332 

70021 ..................................................... WVLA–TV .............................................. 1,969,063 1,969,000 12,991 

81750 ..................................................... WVLR .................................................... 1,483,484 1,376,091 9,079 

35908 ..................................................... WVLT–TV .............................................. 1,983,974 1,714,780 11,314 

74169 ..................................................... WVNS–TV ............................................. 889,675 560,472 3,698 

11259 ..................................................... WVNY .................................................... 755,448 673,828 4,446 

29000 ..................................................... WVOZ–TV9 ........................................... 981,832 762,182 2,946 

71657 ..................................................... WVPB–TV ............................................. 939,383 910,465 6,007 

60111 ..................................................... WVPT .................................................... 995,523 887,449 5,855 

70491 ..................................................... WVPX–TV ............................................. 4,131,639 4,098,980 27,045 

66378 ..................................................... WVPY .................................................... 995,523 887,449 5,855 

67190 ..................................................... WVSN .................................................... 2,593,148 2,271,512 14,987 

69940 ..................................................... WVTB .................................................... 468,294 246,240 1,625 

74173 ..................................................... WVTM–TV ............................................. 2,101,947 2,026,895 13,373 

74174 ..................................................... WVTV .................................................... 3,130,664 3,122,630 20,603 

77496 ..................................................... WVUA .................................................... 2,305,621 2,250,337 14,848 

4149 ....................................................... WVUE–DT ............................................. 1,759,779 1,759,779 11,611 

4329 ....................................................... WVUT .................................................... 267,636 267,555 1,765 

74176 ..................................................... WVVA .................................................... 997,556 690,651 4,557 

3113 ....................................................... WVXF .................................................... 70,673 66,853 441 

12033 ..................................................... WWAY ................................................... 1,328,366 1,328,366 8,765 

30833 ..................................................... WWBT ................................................... 2,109,206 2,074,930 13,690 

20295 ..................................................... WWCP–TV ............................................ 2,798,717 2,540,105 16,760 

24812 ..................................................... WWCW .................................................. 1,390,908 1,210,482 7,987 

23671 ..................................................... WWDP ................................................... 6,230,964 5,959,061 39,318 

21158 ..................................................... WWHO .................................................. 2,994,400 2,952,760 19,482 

14682 ..................................................... WWJE–DT ............................................. 7,755,236 7,627,170 50,324 

65919 ..................................................... WWJS ................................................... 3,798,882 3,731,768 24,622 

72123 ..................................................... WWJ–TV ............................................... 5,653,566 5,653,219 37,300 

166512 ................................................... WWJX ................................................... 524,625 524,579 3,461 

6868 ....................................................... WWLP ................................................... 3,866,407 3,097,621 20,438 

74192 ..................................................... WWL–TV ............................................... 1,908,335 1,908,335 12,591 

3133 ....................................................... WWMB .................................................. 1,596,320 1,591,501 10,501 

74195 ..................................................... WWMT .................................................. 2,667,986 2,657,016 17,531 


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Facility Id. Call sign 

Service area Terrain limited Terrain limited 

Population Population Fee amount 

68851 ..................................................... WWNY–TV ............................................ 368,613 341,101 2,251 

74197 ..................................................... WWOR–TV ............................................ 21,146,732 20,904,564 137,928 

65943 ..................................................... WWPB ................................................... 3,531,585 3,086,500 20,365 

23264 ..................................................... WWPX–TV ............................................ 2,612,045 2,544,163 16,786 

68547 ..................................................... WWRS–TV ............................................ 2,376,549 2,354,442 15,535 

61251 ..................................................... WWSB ................................................... 3,830,838 3,830,838 25,276 

23142 ..................................................... WWSI .................................................... 11,821,594 11,646,436 76,843 

16747 ..................................................... WWTI .................................................... 195,127 188,538 1,244 

998 ......................................................... WWTO–TV ............................................ 6,837,732 6,837,732 45,115 

26994 ..................................................... WWTV ................................................... 1,047,227 1,032,448 6,812 

84214 ..................................................... WWTW .................................................. 1,529,924 1,528,555 10,085 

26993 ..................................................... WWUP–TV ............................................ 114,688 108,690 717 

23338 ..................................................... WXBU .................................................... 4,219,869 3,695,568 24,383 

61504 ..................................................... WXCW ................................................... 2,000,927 2,000,927 13,202 

61084 ..................................................... WXEL–TV .............................................. 5,976,331 5,976,331 39,432 

60539 ..................................................... WXFT–DT ............................................. 10,333,090 10,326,952 68,137 

23929 ..................................................... WXGA–TV ............................................. 618,176 616,843 4,070 

51163 ..................................................... WXIA–TV ............................................... 7,067,151 6,920,534 45,662 

53921 ..................................................... WXII–TV ................................................ 3,895,811 3,546,156 23,398 

146 ......................................................... WXIN ..................................................... 3,066,589 3,043,020 20,078 

39738 ..................................................... WXIX–TV ............................................... 3,033,449 3,023,049 19,946 

414 ......................................................... WXLV–TV .............................................. 4,920,177 4,882,710 32,216 

68433 ..................................................... WXMI ..................................................... 2,110,083 2,109,607 13,919 

64549 ..................................................... WXOW .................................................. 433,343 422,605 2,788 

6601 ....................................................... WXPX–TV ............................................. 5,414,068 5,411,832 35,707 

74215 ..................................................... WXTV–DT ............................................. 21,842,105 21,428,169 141,383 

12472 ..................................................... WXTX .................................................... 745,811 742,438 4,899 

11970 ..................................................... WXXA–TV ............................................. 1,691,753 1,553,272 10,248 

57274 ..................................................... WXXI–TV ............................................... 1,192,140 1,176,310 7,761 

53517 ..................................................... WXXV–TV ............................................. 1,235,520 1,233,511 8,139 

10267 ..................................................... WXYZ–TV ............................................. 5,716,967 5,716,632 37,718 

77515 ..................................................... WYCI ..................................................... 32,321 21,447 142 

70149 ..................................................... WYCW ................................................... 3,717,232 3,549,667 23,421 

62219 ..................................................... WYDC ................................................... 542,984 435,924 2,876 

18783 ..................................................... WYDN ................................................... 2,760,323 2,697,351 17,797 

35582 ..................................................... WYDO ................................................... 1,340,990 1,340,990 8,848 

25090 ..................................................... WYES–TV ............................................. 2,002,806 2,002,459 13,212 

53905 ..................................................... WYFF .................................................... 2,836,376 2,609,544 17,218 

49803 ..................................................... WYIN ..................................................... 7,062,511 7,062,511 46,598 

24915 ..................................................... WYMT–TV ............................................. 1,144,051 819,069 5,404 

17010 ..................................................... WYOU ................................................... 2,912,468 2,246,394 14,822 

77789 ..................................................... WYOW .................................................. 94,927 94,486 623 

13933 ..................................................... WYPX–TV ............................................. 1,547,670 1,434,147 9,463 

4693 ....................................................... WYTV .................................................... 4,870,043 4,522,748 29,841 

5875 ....................................................... WYZZ–TV .............................................. 1,008,995 1,002,743 6,616 

15507 ..................................................... WZBJ ..................................................... 1,603,364 1,421,509 9,379 

28119 ..................................................... WZDX .................................................... 1,714,034 1,633,019 10,775 

70493 ..................................................... WZME ................................................... 21,320,488 20,875,035 137,733 

81448 ..................................................... WZMQ ................................................... 73,784 73,510 485 

71871 ..................................................... WZPX–TV ............................................. 2,165,413 2,165,333 14,287 

136750 ................................................... WZRB .................................................... 1,007,172 1,006,731 6,642 

418 ......................................................... WZTV .................................................... 2,743,270 2,733,978 18,039 

83270 ..................................................... WZVI ..................................................... 64,187 63,279 418 

19183 ..................................................... WZVN–TV ............................................. 2,331,155 2,331,155 15,381 

49713 ..................................................... WZZM .................................................... 1,678,220 1,652,095 10,901 

1 Call signs WIPM and WIPR are stations in Puerto Rico that are linked together with a total fee of $20,455. 

2 Call signs WNJX and WAPA are stations in Puerto Rico that are linked together with a total fee of $20,455. 

3 Call signs WKAQ and WORA are stations in Puerto Rico that are linked together with a total fee of $20,455. 

4 Call signs WOLE and WLII are stations in Puerto Rico that are linked together with a total fee of $20,455. 

5 Call signs WVEO and WTCV are stations in Puerto Rico that are linked together with a total fee of $20,455. 

6 Call signs WJPX and WJWN are stations in Puerto Rico that are linked together with a total fee of $20,455. 

7 Call signs WAPA and WTIN are stations in Puerto Rico that are linked together with a total fee of $20,455. 

8 Call signs WSUR and WLII are stations in Puerto Rico that are linked together with a total fee of $20,455. 

9 Call signs WVOZ and WTCV are stations in Puerto Rico that are linked together with a total fee of $20,455. 

10 Call signs WJPX and WKPV are stations in Puerto Rico that are linked together with a total fee of $20,455. 11 Call signs WMTJ and WQTO are stations in Puerto Rico that are linked together with a total fee of $20,455. 12 Call signs WIRS and WJPX are stations in Puerto Rico that are linked together with a total fee of $20,455. 13 Call signs WRFB and WORA are stations in Puerto Rico that are linked together with a total fee of $20,455. 


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[Regulatory fees for the categories shaded in gray are collected by the Commission in advance to cover the term of the license and are 

submitted at the time the application is filed.] 

Fee category Annual regulatory fee 

(U.S. $s) 

PLMRS (per license) (Exclusive Use) (47 CFR part 90) .......................................... 25. 

Microwave (per license) (47 CFR part 101) ............................................................. 25. 

Marine (Ship) (per station) (47 CFR part 80) ........................................................... 15. 

Marine (Coast) (per license) (47 CFR part 80) ........................................................ 40. 

Rural Radio (47 CFR part 22) (previously listed under the Land Mobile category) 10. 

PLMRS (Shared Use) (per license) (47 CFR part 90) ............................................. 10. 

Aviation (Aircraft) (per station) (47 CFR part 87) ..................................................... 10. 

Aviation (Ground) (per license) (47 CFR part 87) .................................................... 20. 

CMRS Mobile/Cellular Services (per unit) (47 CFR parts 20, 22, 24, 27, 80, and 

90) (Includes Non-Geographic telephone numbers).

.16. 

CMRS Messaging Services (per unit) (47 CFR parts 20, 22, 24, and 90) .............. .08. 

Broadband Radio Service (formerly MMDS/MDS) (per license) (47 CFR part 27) 700. 

Local Multipoint Distribution Service (per call sign) (47 CFR part 101) ................... 700. 

AM Radio Construction Permits ................................................................................ 620. 

FM Radio Construction Permits ................................................................................ 1,085. 

AM and FM Broadcast Radio Station Fees .............................................................. See Table Below. 

Digital TV (47 CFR part 73) VHF and UHF Commercial Fee Factor ....................... $.007799. 

See Appendix G of FY 2023 Report and Order for fee 

amounts due, also available at https://www.fcc.gov/licensing-databases/fees/regulatory-fees. 

Digital TV Construction Permits ................................................................................ 5,100. 

Low Power TV, Class A TV, TV/FM Translators & FM Boosters (47 CFR ..............

part 74) ......................................................................................................................

260. 

CARS (47 CFR part 78) ............................................................................................ 1,720. 

Cable Television Systems (per subscriber) (47 CFR part 76), Including IPTV and 

Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS).

1.23. 

Interstate Telecommunication Service Providers (per revenue dollar) ..................... .00540. 

Toll Free (per toll free subscriber) (47 CFR 52.101(f)) ............................................. .13. 

Earth Stations (47 CFR part 25) ............................................................................... 575. 

Space Stations (per operational station in geostationary orbit) (47 CFR part 25) 

also includes DBS Service (per operational station) (47 CFR part 100).

117,580. 

Space Stations (per operational system in non-geostationary orbit) (47 CFR part 

25) (Other).

347,755. 

Space Stations (per operational system in non-geostationary orbit) (47 CFR part 

25) (Less Complex).

130,405. 

Space Stations (per license/call sign in non-geostationary orbit) (47 CFR part 25) 

(Small Satellite).

12,215. 

International Bearer Circuits—Terrestrial/Satellites (per Gbps circuit) ..................... $26. 

Submarine Cable Landing Licenses Fee (per cable system) .................................. See Table Below. 

FY 2023 RADIO STATION REGULATORY FEES

Population served AM Class A AM Class B AM Class C AM Class D FM Classes 

A, B1 & C3 

FM Classes 

B, C, C0, 

C1 & C2 

≤10,000 .................................................... $595 $430 $370 $410 $650 $745 

10,001–25,000 ......................................... 990 715 620 680 1,085 1,240 

25,001–75,000 ......................................... 1,485 1,075 930 1,020 1,630 1,860 

75,001–150,000 ....................................... 2,230 1,610 1,395 1,530 2,440 2,790 

150,001–500,000 ..................................... 3,345 2,415 2,095 2,300 3,665 4,190 

500,001–1,200,000 .................................. 5,010 3,620 3,135 3,440 5,490 6,275 

1,200,001–3,000,000 ............................... 7,525 5,435 4,710 5,170 8,245 9,425 

3,000,001–6,000,000 ............................... 11,275 8,145 7,060 7,745 12,360 14,125 

>6,000,000 ............................................... 16,920 12,220 10,595 11,620 18,545 21,190 

FY 2023 INTERNATIONAL BEARER CIRCUITS—SUBMARINE CABLE SYSTEMS

Submarine cable systems 

(capacity as of December 31, 2022) 

Fee ratio 

(units) 

FY 2023 

regulatory fees 

Less than 50 Gbps ............................................................................................................................................ .0625 $7,680 

50 Gbps or greater, but less than 250 Gbps .................................................................................................... .125 15,355 

250 Gbps or greater, but less than 1,500 Gbps ............................................................................................... .25 30,705 

1,500 Gbps or greater, but less than 3,500 Gbps ............................................................................................ .5 61,410 

3,500 Gbps or greater, but less than 6,500 Gbps ............................................................................................ 1.0 122,815 

6,500 Gbps or greater ....................................................................................................................................... 2.0 245,630 


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Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

As required by the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act of 1980, as amended 

(RFA) an Initial Regulatory Flexibility 

Analysis (IRFA) was incorporated in the 

FY 2024 NPRM released in June 2024. 

The Federal Communications 

Commission (Commission or FCC) 

sought written public comment on the 

proposals in the FY 2024 NPRM, 

including comment on the IRFA. No 

comments were filed addressing the 

IRFA. This present Final Regulatory 

Flexibility Analysis (FRFA) conforms to 

the RFA. 

Need for, and Objectives of, the Report 

and Order 

In the Report and Order, the 

Commission adopts a regulatory fee 

schedule to meet its objective of fully 

complying with its congressionally 

mandated requirement of collecting 

regulatory fees for fiscal year (FY) 2024. 

For FY 2024, the Commission is 

required to collect $390,192,000 in 

regulatory fees, an amount equal to the 

Commission’s annual salaries and 

expenses appropriation, pursuant to 

section 9 of the Communications Act of 

1934, as amended (Communications Act 

or Act), and the Commission’s FY 2024 

Further Consolidation Appropriations 

Act. The Commission’s methodology for 

assessing regulatory fees must ‘‘reflect 

the full-time equivalent number of 

employees within the bureaus and 

offices of the Commission, adjusted to 

take into account factors that are 

reasonably related to the benefits 

provided to the payor of the fee by the 

Commission’s activities.’’ The total 

amount the Commission must collect in 

an offsetting collection generally 

changes each fiscal year, and payors’ 

regulatory fees will also typically 

change each fiscal year as a 

mathematical consequence of the 

changes in the total amount to be 

collected, the number of full-time 

equivalents (FTEs), and projected unit 

estimates for each regulatory fee 

category. 

In 2023, the Commission eliminated 

the International Bureau, established a 

new Space Bureau and a new Office of 

International Affairs, and reallocated the 

authorities and functions of the 

International Bureau to the Space 

Bureau and the Office of International 

Affairs. In light of these actions, for FY 

2024, the Commission reviewed the FY 

2023 reallocations to determine if any 

changes are warranted, and proposed to 

slightly revise the FY 2023 reallocations 

to the core bureaus, including the new 

Space Bureau and the new Office of 

International Affairs. 

In the FY 2024 NPRM, the 

Commission also sought comment on 

several additional regulatory fee issues, 

including: (i) the calculation of 

television broadcaster regulatory fees; 

(ii) how our proposals may promote or 

inhibit advances in diversity, equity, 

inclusion, and accessibility; (iii) the end 

of temporary relief measures we 

implemented in response to the COVID– 

19 pandemic; (iv) our proposal to 

discontinue the Commission’s 

presumption that broadcast stations that 

are dark or were recently dark or 

bankrupt are experiencing financial 

hardship sufficient to justify waiver of 

their regulatory fees; and (v) ways in 

which the Commission might assist 

regulatory fee payors in meeting their 

annual regulatory fee obligations. For 

FY 2024, the Commission adopts, with 

modification, the regulatory fee 

schedule set forth in tables 3 and 4 of 

this document. 

Summary of Significant Issues Raised by 

Public Comments in Response to the 

IRFA 

There were no comments filed that 

specifically addressed the proposed 

rules and policies presented in the 

IRFA. However, one commenter, 

Iridium, contends that adopting the 60/ 

40 allocation split between 

Geostationary Orbit (GSO) and NonGeostationary Orbit (NGSO) for FY 2024 

would impose a burden on smaller 

NGSO systems. The Commission does 

not agree that it would be appropriate to 

delay this allocation, in that it more 

accurately represents the FY 2024 FTE 

burden in the Space Bureau than the 

prior 80/20 allocation. 

Response to Comments by Chief 

Counsel for Advocacy of the Small 

Business Administration 

Pursuant to the Small Business Jobs 

Act of 2010, which amended the RFA, 

the Commission is required to respond 

to any comments filed by the Chief 

Counsel for Advocacy of the Small 

Business Administration (SBA), and to 

provide a detailed statement of any 

change made to the proposed rules as a 

result of those comments. The Chief 

Counsel did not file any comments in 

response to the proposed rules in this 

proceeding. 

Description and Estimate of the Number 

of Small Entities to Which the Rules 

Will Apply 

The RFA directs agencies to provide 

a description of, and, where feasible, an 

estimate of the number of small entities 

that may be affected by the rules 

adopted herein. The RFA generally 

defines the term ‘‘small entity’’ as 

having the same meaning as the terms 

‘‘small business,’’ ‘‘small organization,’’ 

and ‘‘small governmental jurisdiction.’’ 

In addition, the term ‘‘small business’’ 

has the same meaning as the term 

‘‘small business concern’’ under the 

Small Business Act. A ‘‘small business 

concern’’ is one which: (1) is 

independently owned and operated; (2) 

is not dominant in its field of operation; 

and (3) satisfies any additional criteria 

established by the SBA. 

Small Businesses, Small 

Organizations, Small Governmental 

Jurisdictions. Our actions, over time, 

may affect small entities that are not 

easily categorized at present. We 

therefore describe, at the outset, three 

broad groups of small entities that could 

be directly affected herein. First, while 

there are industry specific size 

standards for small businesses that are 

used in the regulatory flexibility 

analysis, according to data from the 

Small Business Administration’s (SBA) 

Office of Advocacy, in general a small 

business is an independent business 

having fewer than 500 employees. These 

types of small businesses represent 

99.9% of all businesses in the United 

States, which translates to 33.2 million 

businesses. 

Next, the type of small entity 

described as a ‘‘small organization’’ is 

generally ‘‘any not-for-profit enterprise 

which is independently owned and 

operated and is not dominant in its 

field.’’ The Internal Revenue Service 

(IRS) uses a revenue benchmark of 

$50,000 or less to delineate its annual 

electronic filing requirements for small 

exempt organizations. Nationwide, for 

tax year 2022, there were approximately 

530,109 small exempt organizations in 

the U.S. reporting revenues of $50,000 

or less according to the registration and 

tax data for exempt organizations 

available from the IRS. 

Finally, the small entity described as 

a ‘‘small governmental jurisdiction’’ is 

defined generally as ‘‘governments of 

cities, counties, towns, townships, 

villages, school districts, or special 

districts, with a population of less than 

fifty thousand.’’ U.S. Census Bureau 

data from the 2022 Census of 

Governments indicate there were 90,837 

local governmental jurisdictions 

consisting of general purpose 

governments and special purpose 

governments in the United States. Of 

this number, there were 36,845 general 

purpose governments (county, 

municipal, and town or township) with 

populations of less than 50,000 and 

11,879 special purpose governments 

(independent school districts) with 

enrollment populations of less than 

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U.S. Census of Governments data, we 

estimate that at least 48,724 entities fall 

into the category of ‘‘small 

governmental jurisdictions.’’ 

Wired Telecommunications Carriers. 

The U.S. Census Bureau defines this 

industry as establishments primarily 

engaged in operating and/or providing 

access to transmission facilities and 

infrastructure that they own and/or 

lease for the transmission of voice, data, 

text, sound, and video using wired 

communications networks. 

Transmission facilities may be based on 

a single technology or a combination of 

technologies. Establishments in this 

industry use the wired 

telecommunications network facilities 

that they operate to provide a variety of 

services, such as wired telephony 

services, including VoIP services, wired 

(cable) audio and video programming 

distribution, and wired broadband 

internet services. By exception, 

establishments providing satellite 

television distribution services using 

facilities and infrastructure that they 

operate are included in this industry. 

Wired Telecommunications Carriers are 

also referred to as wireline carriers or 

fixed local service providers. 

The SBA small business size standard 

for Wired Telecommunications Carriers 

classifies firms having 1,500 or fewer 

employees as small. U.S. Census Bureau 

data for 2017 show that there were 3,054 

firms that operated in this industry for 

the entire year. Of this number, 2,964 

firms operated with fewer than 250 

employees. Additionally, based on 

Commission data in the 2022 Universal 

Service Monitoring Report, as of 

December 31, 2021, there were 4,590 

providers that reported they were 

engaged in the provision of fixed local 

services. Of these providers, the 

Commission estimates that 4,146 

providers have 1,500 or fewer 

employees. Consequently, using the 

SBA’s small business size standard, 

most of these providers can be 

considered small entities. 

Local Exchange Carriers (LECs). 

Neither the Commission nor the SBA 

has developed a size standard for small 

businesses specifically applicable to 

local exchange services. Providers of 

these services include both incumbent 

and competitive local exchange service 

providers. Wired Telecommunications 

Carriers is the closest industry with an 

SBA small business size standard. 

Wired Telecommunications Carriers are 

also referred to as wireline carriers or 

fixed local service providers. The SBA 

small business size standard for Wired 

Telecommunications Carriers classifies 

firms having 1,500 or fewer employees 

as small. U.S. Census Bureau data for 

2017 show that there were 3,054 firms 

that operated in this industry for the 

entire year. Of this number, 2,964 firms 

operated with fewer than 250 

employees. Additionally, based on 

Commission data in the 2022 Universal 

Service Monitoring Report, as of 

December 31, 2021, there were 4,590 

providers that reported they were fixed 

local exchange service providers. Of 

these providers, the Commission 

estimates that 4,146 providers have 

1,500 or fewer employees. 

Consequently, using the SBA’s small 

business size standard, most of these 

providers can be considered small 

entities. 

Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers 

(Incumbent LECs). Neither the 

Commission nor the SBA have 

developed a small business size 

standard specifically for incumbent 

local exchange carriers. Wired 

Telecommunications Carriers is the 

closest industry with an SBA small 

business size standard. The SBA small 

business size standard for Wired 

Telecommunications Carriers classifies 

firms having 1,500 or fewer employees 

as small. U.S. Census Bureau data for 

2017 show that there were 3,054 firms 

in this industry that operated for the 

entire year. Of this number, 2,964 firms 

operated with fewer than 250 

employees. Additionally, based on 

Commission data in the 2022 Universal 

Service Monitoring Report, as of 

December 31, 2021, there were 1,212 

providers that reported they were 

incumbent local exchange service 

providers. Of these providers, the 

Commission estimates that 916 

providers have 1,500 or fewer 

employees. Consequently, using the 

SBA’s small business size standard, the 

Commission estimates that the majority 

of incumbent local exchange carriers 

can be considered small entities. 

Competitive Local Exchange Carriers 

(CLECs). Neither the Commission nor 

the SBA has developed a size standard 

for small businesses specifically 

applicable to local exchange services. 

Providers of these services include 

several types of competitive local 

exchange service providers. Wired 

Telecommunications Carriers is the 

closest industry with a SBA small 

business size standard. The SBA small 

business size standard for Wired 

Telecommunications Carriers classifies 

firms having 1,500 or fewer employees 

as small. U.S. Census Bureau data for 

2017 show that there were 3,054 firms 

that operated in this industry for the 

entire year. Of this number, 2,964 firms 

operated with fewer than 250 

employees. Additionally, based on 

Commission data in the 2022 Universal 

Service Monitoring Report, as of 

December 31, 2021, there were 3,378 

providers that reported they were 

competitive local service providers. Of 

these providers, the Commission 

estimates that 3,230 providers have 

1,500 or fewer employees. 

Consequently, using the SBA’s small 

business size standard, most of these 

providers can be considered small 

entities. 

Interexchange Carriers (IXCs). Neither 

the Commission nor the SBA have 

developed a small business size 

standard specifically for Interexchange 

Carriers. Wired Telecommunications 

Carriers is the closest industry with a 

SBA small business size standard. The 

SBA small business size standard for 

Wired Telecommunications Carriers 

classifies firms having 1,500 or fewer 

employees as small. U.S. Census Bureau 

data for 2017 show that there were 3,054 

firms that operated in this industry for 

the entire year. Of this number, 2,964 

firms operated with fewer than 250 

employees. Additionally, based on 

Commission data in the 2022 Universal 

Service Monitoring Report, as of 

December 31, 2021, there were 127 

providers that reported they were 

engaged in the provision of 

interexchange services. Of these 

providers, the Commission estimates 

that 109 providers have 1,500 or fewer 

employees. Consequently, using the 

SBA’s small business size standard, the 

Commission estimates that the majority 

of providers in this industry can be 

considered small entities. 

Prepaid Calling Card Providers. 

Neither the Commission nor the SBA 

has developed a small business size 

standard specifically for prepaid calling 

card providers. Telecommunications 

Resellers is the closest industry with a 

SBA small business size standard. The 

Telecommunications Resellers industry 

comprises establishments engaged in 

purchasing access and network capacity 

from owners and operators of 

telecommunications networks and 

reselling wired and wireless 

telecommunications services (except 

satellite) to businesses and households. 

Establishments in this industry resell 

telecommunications; they do not 

operate transmission facilities and 

infrastructure. Mobile virtual network 

operators (MVNOs) are included in this 

industry. The SBA small business size 

standard for Telecommunications 

Resellers classifies a business as small if 

it has 1,500 or fewer employees. U.S. 

Census Bureau data for 2017 show that 

1,386 firms in this industry provided 

resale services for the entire year. Of 

that number, 1,375 firms operated with 

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Additionally, based on Commission 

data in the 2022 Universal Service 

Monitoring Report, as of December 31, 

2021, there were 62 providers that 

reported they were engaged in the 

provision of prepaid card services. Of 

these providers, the Commission 

estimates that 61 providers have 1,500 

or fewer employees. Consequently, 

using the SBA’s small business size 

standard, most of these providers can be 

considered small entities. 

Local Resellers. Neither the 

Commission nor the SBA have 

developed a small business size 

standard specifically for Local Resellers. 

Telecommunications Resellers is the 

closest industry with a SBA small 

business size standard. The 

Telecommunications Resellers industry 

comprises establishments engaged in 

purchasing access and network capacity 

from owners and operators of 

telecommunications networks and 

reselling wired and wireless 

telecommunications services (except 

satellite) to businesses and households. 

Establishments in this industry resell 

telecommunications; they do not 

operate transmission facilities and 

infrastructure. Mobile virtual network 

operators (MVNOs) are included in this 

industry. The SBA small business size 

standard for Telecommunications 

Resellers classifies a business as small if 

it has 1,500 or fewer employees. U.S. 

Census Bureau data for 2017 show that 

1,386 firms in this industry provided 

resale services for the entire year. Of 

that number, 1,375 firms operated with 

fewer than 250 employees. 

Additionally, based on Commission 

data in the 2022 Universal Service 

Monitoring Report, as of December 31, 

2021, there were 207 providers that 

reported they were engaged in the 

provision of local resale services. Of 

these providers, the Commission 

estimates that 202 providers have 1,500 

or fewer employees. Consequently, 

using the SBA’s small business size 

standard, most of these providers can be 

considered small entities. 

Toll Resellers. Neither the 

Commission nor the SBA have 

developed a small business size 

standard specifically for Toll Resellers. 

Telecommunications Resellers is the 

closest industry with a SBA small 

business size standard. The 

Telecommunications Resellers industry 

comprises establishments engaged in 

purchasing access and network capacity 

from owners and operators of 

telecommunications networks and 

reselling wired and wireless 

telecommunications services (except 

satellite) to businesses and households. 

Establishments in this industry resell 

telecommunications; they do not 

operate transmission facilities and 

infrastructure. Mobile virtual network 

operators (MVNOs) are included in this 

industry. The SBA small business size 

standard for Telecommunications 

Resellers classifies a business as small if 

it has 1,500 or fewer employees. U.S. 

Census Bureau data for 2017 show that 

1,386 firms in this industry provided 

resale services for the entire year. Of 

that number, 1,375 firms operated with 

fewer than 250 employees. 

Additionally, based on Commission 

data in the 2022 Universal Service 

Monitoring Report, as of December 31, 

2021, there were 457 providers that 

reported they were engaged in the 

provision of toll services. Of these 

providers, the Commission estimates 

that 438 providers have 1,500 or fewer 

employees. Consequently, using the 

SBA’s small business size standard, 

most of these providers can be 

considered small entities. 

Other Toll Carriers. Neither the 

Commission nor the SBA has developed 

a definition for small businesses 

specifically applicable to Other Toll 

Carriers. This category includes toll 

carriers that do not fall within the 

categories of interexchange carriers, 

operator service providers, prepaid 

calling card providers, satellite service 

carriers, or toll resellers. Wired 

Telecommunications Carriers is the 

closest industry with a SBA small 

business size standard. The SBA small 

business size standard for Wired 

Telecommunications Carriers classifies 

firms having 1,500 or fewer employees 

as small. U.S. Census Bureau data for 

2017 show that there were 3,054 firms 

in this industry that operated for the 

entire year. Of this number, 2,964 firms 

operated with fewer than 250 

employees. Additionally, based on 

Commission data in the 2022 Universal 

Service Monitoring Report, as of 

December 31, 2021, there were 90 

providers that reported they were 

engaged in the provision of other toll 

services. Of these providers, the 

Commission estimates that 87 providers 

have 1,500 or fewer employees. 

Consequently, using the SBA’s small 

business size standard, most of these 

providers can be considered small 

entities. 

Wireless Telecommunications 

Carriers (except Satellite). This industry 

comprises establishments engaged in 

operating and maintaining switching 

and transmission facilities to provide 

communications via the airwaves. 

Establishments in this industry have 

spectrum licenses and provide services 

using that spectrum, such as cellular 

services, paging services, wireless 

internet access, and wireless video 

services. The SBA size standard for this 

industry classifies a business as small if 

it has 1,500 or fewer employees. U.S. 

Census Bureau data for 2017 show that 

there were 2,893 firms in this industry 

that operated for the entire year. Of that 

number, 2,837 firms employed fewer 

than 250 employees. Additionally, 

based on Commission data in the 2022 

Universal Service Monitoring Report, as 

of December 31, 2021, there were 594 

providers that reported they were 

engaged in the provision of wireless 

services. Of these providers, the 

Commission estimates that 511 

providers have 1,500 or fewer 

employees. Consequently, using the 

SBA’s small business size standard, 

most of these providers can be 

considered small entities. 

Television Broadcasting. This 

industry is comprised of 

‘‘establishments primarily engaged in 

broadcasting images together with 

sound.’’ These establishments operate 

television broadcast studios and 

facilities for the programming and 

transmission of programs to the public. 

These establishments also produce or 

transmit visual programming to 

affiliated broadcast television stations, 

which in turn broadcast the programs to 

the public on a predetermined schedule. 

Programming may originate in their own 

studio, from an affiliated network, or 

from external sources. The SBA small 

business size standard for this industry 

classifies businesses having $47 million 

or less in annual receipts as small. 2017 

U.S. Census Bureau data indicate that 

744 firms in this industry operated for 

the entire year. Of that number, 657 

firms had revenue of less than 

$25,000,000. Based on this data we 

estimate that the majority of television 

broadcasters are small entities under the 

SBA small business size standard. 

As of June 30, 2024, there were 1,384 

licensed commercial television stations. 

Of this total, 1,307 stations (or 94.4%) 

had revenues of $47 million or less in 

2023, according to Commission staff 

review of the BIA Kelsey Inc. Media 

Access Pro Television Database (BIA) on 

July 3, 2024, and therefore these 

licensees qualify as small entities under 

the SBA definition. In addition, the 

Commission estimates as of June 30, 

2024, there were 382 licensed 

noncommercial educational (NCE) 

television stations, 379 Class A TV 

stations, 1,821 LPTV stations and 3,100 

TV translator stations. The Commission, 

however, does not compile and 

otherwise does not have access to 

financial information for these 

television broadcast stations that would 

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these stations qualify as small entities 

under the SBA small business size 

standard. Nevertheless, given the SBA’s 

large annual receipts threshold for this 

industry and the nature of these 

television station licensees, we presume 

that all of these entities qualify as small 

entities under the above SBA small 

business size standard. 

Radio Stations. This industry is 

comprised of ‘‘establishments primarily 

engaged in broadcasting aural programs 

by radio to the public.’’ Programming 

may originate in their own studio, from 

an affiliated network, or from external 

sources. The SBA small business size 

standard for this industry classifies 

firms having $47 million or less in 

annual receipts as small. U.S. Census 

Bureau data for 2017 show that 2,963 

firms operated in this industry during 

that year. Of this number, 1,879 firms 

operated with revenue of less than $25 

million per year. Based on this data and 

the SBA’s small business size standard, 

we estimate a majority of such entities 

are small entities. 

The Commission estimates that as of 

June 30, 2024, there were 4,413 licensed 

commercial AM radio stations and 6,620 

licensed commercial FM radio stations, 

for a combined total of 11,033 

commercial radio stations. Of this total, 

11,032 stations (or 99.99%) had 

revenues of $47 million or less in 2023, 

according to Commission staff review of 

the BIA Kelsey Inc. Media Access Pro 

Database (BIA) on July 3, 2024, and 

therefore these licensees qualify as 

small entities under the SBA definition. 

In addition, the Commission estimates 

that as of June 30, 2024, there were 

4,356 licensed noncommercial (NCE) 

FM radio stations, 1,965 low power FM 

(LPFM) stations, and 8,906 FM 

translators and boosters. The 

Commission however does not compile, 

and otherwise does not have access to 

financial information for these radio 

stations that would permit it to 

determine how many of these stations 

qualify as small entities under the SBA 

small business size standard. 

Nevertheless, given the SBA’s large 

annual receipts threshold for this 

industry and the nature of radio station 

licensees, we presume that all of these 

entities qualify as small entities under 

the above SBA small business size 

standard. 

We note, however, that in assessing 

whether a business concern qualifies as 

‘‘small’’ under the above definition, 

business (control) affiliations must be 

included. Our estimate, therefore, likely 

overstates the number of small entities 

that might be affected by our action, 

because the revenue figure on which it 

is based does not include or aggregate 

revenues from affiliated companies. In 

addition, another element of the 

definition of ‘‘small business’’ requires 

that an entity not be dominant in its 

field of operation. We are unable at this 

time to define or quantify the criteria 

that would establish whether a specific 

radio or television broadcast station is 

dominant in its field of operation. 

Accordingly, the estimate of small 

businesses to which the rules may apply 

does not exclude any radio or television 

station from the definition of a small 

business on this basis and is therefore 

possibly over-inclusive. An additional 

element of the definition of ‘‘small 

business’’ is that the entity must be 

independently owned and operated. 

Because it is difficult to assess these 

criteria in the context of media entities, 

the estimate of small businesses to 

which the rules may apply does not 

exclude any radio or television station 

from the definition of a small business 

on this basis and similarly may be overinclusive. 

Cable Companies and Systems (Rate 

Regulation). The Commission has 

developed its own small business size 

standard for the purpose of cable rate 

regulation. Under the Commission’s 

rules, a ‘‘small cable company’’ is one 

serving 400,000 or fewer subscribers 

nationwide. Based on industry data, 

there are about 420 cable companies in 

the U.S. Of these, only seven have more 

than 400,000 subscribers. In addition, 

under the Commission’s rules, a ‘‘small 

system’’ is a cable system serving 15,000 

or fewer subscribers. Based on industry 

data, there are about 4,139 cable systems 

(headends) in the U.S. Of these, about 

639 have more than 15,000 subscribers. 

Accordingly, the Commission estimates 

that the majority of cable companies and 

cable systems are small. 

Cable System Operators (Telecom Act 

Standard). The Communications Act of 

1934, as amended, contains a size 

standard for a ‘‘small cable operator,’’ 

which is ‘‘a cable operator that, directly 

or through an affiliate, serves in the 

aggregate fewer than one percent of all 

subscribers in the United States and is 

not affiliated with any entity or entities 

whose gross annual revenues in the 

aggregate exceed $250,000,000.’’ For 

purposes of the Telecom Act Standard, 

the Commission determined that a cable 

system operator that serves fewer than 

498,000 subscribers, either directly or 

through affiliates, will meet the 

definition of a small cable operator. 

Based on industry data, only six cable 

system operators have more than 

498,000 subscribers. Accordingly, the 

Commission estimates that the majority 

of cable system operators are small 

under this size standard. We note 

however, that the Commission neither 

requests nor collects information on 

whether cable system operators are 

affiliated with entities whose gross 

annual revenues exceed $250 million. 

Therefore, we are unable at this time to 

estimate with greater precision the 

number of cable system operators that 

would qualify as small cable operators 

under the definition in the 

Communications Act. 

Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) 

Service. DBS service is a nationally 

distributed subscription service that 

delivers video and audio programming 

via satellite to a small parabolic ‘‘dish’’ 

antenna at the subscriber’s location. 

DBS is included in the Wired 

Telecommunications Carriers industry 

which comprises establishments 

primarily engaged in operating and/or 

providing access to transmission 

facilities and infrastructure that they 

own and/or lease for the transmission of 

voice, data, text, sound, and video using 

wired telecommunications networks. 

Transmission facilities may be based on 

a single technology or combination of 

technologies. Establishments in this 

industry use the wired 

telecommunications network facilities 

that they operate to provide a variety of 

services, such as wired telephony 

services, including VoIP services, wired 

(cable) audio and video programming 

distribution; and wired broadband 

internet services. By exception, 

establishments providing satellite 

television distribution services using 

facilities and infrastructure that they 

operate are included in this industry. 

The SBA small business size standard 

for Wired Telecommunications Carriers 

classifies firms having 1,500 or fewer 

employees as small. U.S. Census Bureau 

data for 2017 show that 3,054 firms 

operated in this industry for the entire 

year. Of this number, 2,964 firms 

operated with fewer than 250 

employees. Based on this data, the 

majority of firms in this industry can be 

considered small under the SBA small 

business size standard. According to 

Commission data however, only two 

entities provide DBS service—DIRECTV 

(co-owned by AT&T) and DISH Network 

(owned by EchoStar Corp.), which 

require a great deal of capital for 

operation. DIRECTV and DISH Network 

both exceed the SBA size standard for 

classification as a small business. 

Therefore, we must conclude based on 

internally developed Commission data, 

in general DBS service is provided only 

by large firms. 

Satellite Telecommunications. This 

industry comprises firms ‘‘primarily 

engaged in providing 

telecommunications services to other 


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establishments in the 

telecommunications and broadcasting 

industries by forwarding and receiving 

communications signals via a system of 

satellites or reselling satellite 

telecommunications.’’ Satellite 

telecommunications service providers 

include satellite and earth station 

operators. The SBA small business size 

standard for this industry classifies a 

business with $44 million or less in 

annual receipts as small. U.S. Census 

Bureau data for 2017 show that 275 

firms in this industry operated for the 

entire year. Of this number, 242 firms 

had revenue of less than $25 million. 

Additionally, based on Commission 

data in the 2022 Universal Service 

Monitoring Report, as of December 31, 

2021, there were 65 providers that 

reported they were engaged in the 

provision of satellite 

telecommunications services. Of these 

providers, the Commission estimates 

that approximately 42 providers have 

1,500 or fewer employees. 

Consequently, using the SBA’s small 

business size standard, a little more 

than half of these providers can be 

considered small entities. 

All Other Telecommunications. This 

industry is comprised of establishments 

primarily engaged in providing 

specialized telecommunications 

services, such as satellite tracking, 

communications telemetry, and radar 

station operation. This industry also 

includes establishments primarily 

engaged in providing satellite terminal 

stations and associated facilities 

connected with one or more terrestrial 

systems and capable of transmitting 

telecommunications to, and receiving 

telecommunications from, satellite 

systems. Providers of internet services 

(e.g. dial-up ISPs) or Voice over internet 

Protocol (VoIP) services, via clientsupplied telecommunications 

connections are also included in this 

industry. The SBA small business size 

standard for this industry classifies 

firms with annual receipts of $40 

million or less as small. U.S. Census 

Bureau data for 2017 show that there 

were 1,079 firms in this industry that 

operated for the entire year. Of those 

firms, 1,039 had revenue of less than 

$25 million. Based on this data, the 

Commission estimates that the majority 

of ‘‘All Other Telecommunications’’ 

firms can be considered small. 

RespOrgs. Responsible Organizations, 

or RespOrgs (also referred to as TollFree Number (TFN) providers), are 

entities chosen by toll free subscribers 

to manage and administer the 

appropriate records in the toll-free 

Service Management System for the tollfree subscriber. Based on information on 

the website of SOMOS, the entity that 

maintains a registry of Toll-Free 

Number providers (SMS/800 TFN 

Registry) for the more than 42 million 

Toll-Free numbers in North America, 

and the TSS Registry, a centralized 

registry for the use of Toll-Free Numbers 

in text messaging and multimedia 

services, there were approximately 446 

registered RespOrgs/Toll-Free Number 

providers in July 2021. RespOrgs are 

often wireline carriers, however they 

can be include non-carrier entities. 

Accordingly, the description below for 

RespOrgs include both Carrier RespOrgs 

and Non-Carrier RespOrgs. 

Carrier RespOrgs. Neither the 

Commission nor the SBA have 

developed a small business size 

standard for Carrier RespOrgs. Wired 

Telecommunications Carriers, and 

Wireless Telecommunications Carriers 

(except Satellite) are the closest 

industries with a SBA small business 

size applicable to Carrier RespOrgs. 

Wired Telecommunications Carriers 

are establishments primarily engaged in 

operating and/or providing access to 

transmission facilities and infrastructure 

that they own and/or lease for the 

transmission of voice, data, text, sound, 

and video using wired communications 

networks. Transmission facilities may 

be based on a single technology or a 

combination of technologies. 

Establishments in this industry use the 

wired telecommunications network 

facilities that they operate to provide a 

variety of services, such as wired 

telephony services, including VoIP 

services, wired (cable) audio and video 

programming distribution, and wired 

broadband internet services. By 

exception, establishments providing 

satellite television distribution services 

using facilities and infrastructure that 

they operate are included in this 

industry. The SBA small business size 

standard for this industry classifies a 

business as small if it has 1,500 or fewer 

employees. U.S. Census Bureau data for 

2017 show that there were 3,054 firms 

that operated for the entire year. Of this 

number, 2,964 firms operated with 

fewer than 250 employees. Based on 

that data, we conclude that the majority 

of Carrier RespOrgs that operated with 

wireline-based technology are small. 

Wireless Telecommunications 

Carriers (except Satellite) engage in 

operating and maintaining switching 

and transmission facilities to provide 

communications via the airwaves. 

Establishments in this industry have 

spectrum licenses and provide services 

using that spectrum, such as cellular 

services, paging services, wireless 

internet access, and wireless video 

services. The SBA small business size 

standard for this industry classifies a 

business as small if it has 1,500 or fewer 

employees. For this industry, U.S. 

Census Bureau data for 2017 show that 

there were 2,893 firms that operated for 

the entire year. Of this number, 2,837 

firms employed fewer than 250 

employees. Based on this data, we 

conclude that the majority of Carrier 

RespOrgs that operated with wirelessbased technology are small. 

Non-Carrier RespOrgs. Neither the 

Commission, nor the SBA have 

developed a small business size 

standard Non-Carrier RespOrgs. Other 

Services Related to Advertising and 

Other Management Consulting 

Services’’ are the closest industries with 

a SBA small business size applicable to 

Non-Carrier RespOrgs. 

The Other Services Related to 

Advertising industry contains 

establishments primarily engaged in 

providing advertising services (except 

advertising agency services, public 

relations agency services, media buying 

agency services, media representative 

services, display advertising services, 

direct mail advertising services, 

advertising material distribution 

services, and marketing consulting 

services). The SBA small business size 

standard for this industry classifies a 

business as small that has annual 

receipts of $16.5 million or less. U.S. 

Census Bureau data for 2017 show that 

5,650 firms operated in this industry for 

the entire year. Of that number, 3,693 

firms operated with revenue of less than 

$10 million. Based on this data, we 

conclude that a majority of non-carrier 

RespOrgs who provide TFN-related 

management consulting services are 

small. 

The Other Management Consulting 

Services industry contains 

establishments primarily engaged in 

providing management consulting 

services (except administrative and 

general management consulting; human 

resources consulting; marketing 

consulting; or process, physical 

distribution, and logistics consulting). 

Establishments providing 

telecommunications or utilities 

management consulting services are 

included in this industry. The SBA 

small business size standard for this 

industry classifies a business as small if 

it has annual receipts of $16.5 million 

or less. U.S. Census Bureau data for 

2017 show that 4,696 firms operated in 

this industry for the entire year. Of that 

number, 3,700 firms had revenue of less 

than $10 million. Based on this data, we 

conclude that a majority of non-carrier 

RespOrgs who provide TFN-related 

management consulting services are 

small. 


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Description of Projected Reporting, 

Recordkeeping, and Other Compliance 

Requirements for Small Entities 

The Report and Order does not adopt 

any changes to the Commission’s 

current information collection, 

reporting, recordkeeping, or other 

compliance requirements for collecting 

regulatory fees from small entities. 

Small and other regulated entities are 

required to pay regulatory fees on an 

annual basis. The cost of compliance 

with the annual regulatory assessment 

for small entities is the amount assessed 

for their regulatory fee category and 

should not require small entities to hire 

professionals in order to comply, as they 

are accustomed to paying the annual 

fees and most should be familiar with 

both the Commission’s current 

collection process as well as the process 

put in place prior to the COVID–19 

pandemic. 

However, the Report and Order does 

adopt changes to the current fee waiver 

process, which may impact small 

entities, by returning to normal, preCOVID–19 pandemic operations and 

discontinuing temporary waiver relief 

from regulatory fees available in the FY 

2023 Report and Order that was not 

codified at that time. The Commission 

now will require small and other 

entities seeking relief through a waiver, 

reduction, and/or deferral of fees to 

submit all financial documents 

necessary to support their hardship 

request at the time of filing the request. 

In addition, the Commission is restoring 

the red light rule so that entities, 

including small entities, must not be in 

red light status at the time of filing a 

request for waiver, reduction, deferral, 

or installment payments. Small entities 

may be able to take advantage of the 

streamlined waiver processes, including 

permitting parties to submit a single 

waiver request for various forms of relief 

electronically, instead of separate filings 

and for FY 2024 regulatory fees, a low 

interest rate and no down payment 

requirement for installment payment of 

regulatory fees. 

Steps Taken To Minimize Significant 

Economic Impact on Small Entities, and 

Significant Alternatives Considered 

The RFA requires an agency to 

provide ‘‘a description of the steps the 

agency has taken to minimize the 

significant economic impact on small 

entities . . . including a statement of 

the factual, policy, and legal reasons for 

selecting the alternative adopted in the 

final rule and why each one of the other 

significant alternatives to the rule 

considered by the agency which affect 

the impact on small entities was 

rejected.’’ 

In response to the FY 2024 NPRM, the 

Commission received comments 

proposing alternatives to various 

elements of the methodology for 

assessing regulatory fees and the FY 

2024 regulatory fee schedule, as well as 

other issues related to the collection of 

regulatory fees. After considering those 

alternatives, as well as those discussed 

amongst Commission staff, the rules 

adopted in the Report and Order reflect 

the Commission’s efforts to minimize 

significant economic impact on small 

entities when practicable. Below is a 

discussion of some of the steps the 

Commission has taken in the Report and 

Order and alternative proposals it 

considered in reaching its conclusions. 

Assessment of Regulatory Fees. For 

FY 2024, we employ the same 

methodology as the Commission did in 

FY 2023. However, we conclude that 

changes within the Commission’s 

organizational structure and in 

additional staff resources merits a 

review of the FY 2023 reallocations of 

the FTEs located in the Office of General 

Counsel, the Office of Economics and 

Analytics, and the Public Safety and 

Homeland Security Bureau that were 

previously considered to be indirect 

FTEs and were allocated as direct FTEs 

to a core bureau. Specifically, effective 

on April 10, 2023, the International 

Bureau was eliminated by establishing a 

new Space Bureau and a new Office of 

International Affairs, We also analyzed 

the FTEs previously reallocated as 

direct to a core bureau in FY 2023 for 

regulatory fee purposes to determine 

whether there have been any shifts in 

work assignments such that the number 

of allocations to a core bureau for 

regulatory fee purposes should be 

adjusted. Also, in instances where an 

FTE was previously allocated to the 

International Bureau as direct for 

regulatory fee purposes, we analyzed 

the specific work done by the FTE to 

determine whether such FTE should be 

allocated to the new Office of 

International Affairs or the new Space 

Bureau. Based on the results of our 

evaluation, we conclude that certain 

indirect FTEs could be reassigned as 

direct FTEs and incorporate these into 

the count of FTEs of the relevant core 

bureau for purposes of calculating 

regulatory fees for FY 2024, which 

could reduce regulatory fee obligations 

for some small and other regulatory 

payees. 

Additionally, on March 13, 2024, the 

Commission released the Space and 

Earth Station Regulatory Fees NPRM 

seeking comment on proposed changes 

to the regulatory fee methodology used 

for assessing space and earth station 

regulatory fees for FY 2024. We 

proposed regulatory fee rates based on 

the proposals set forth in the Space and 

Earth Station Regulatory Fees NPRM, 

and therefore, did not need to seek 

comment again on the FY 2024 NPRM. 

Broadcast Regulatory Fees. In the 

Report and Order, we continue to assess 

fees for full-power broadcast television 

stations based on the population 

covered by a full-service broadcast 

television station’s contour, which may 

reduce the economic impact of the 

regulatory fees for some small licensees. 

While the population-based 

methodology increases fees for some 

licensees and reduces fees for others, we 

believe the population-based metric 

better conforms with the service of 

broadcasting television to the American 

people. 

In addition, entities experiencing 

financial hardship, including small 

businesses, will continue to have access 

to fee relief, such as waiver, reduction, 

deferral and/or installment payment of 

their regulatory fees and may be exempt 

from paying a regulatory fee if the 

assessed fee is below the de minimis 

threshold that the Commission has 

established. 

Relief Measures. During the COVID– 

19 pandemic and through FY 2023, the 

Commission provided certain temporary 

relief to regulatory fee payors 

experiencing financial hardship caused 

or exacerbated by the COVID–19 

pandemic through a combination of 

partial rule waivers and direction to the 

Office of the Managing Director in 

exercising its delegated authority. In the 

Report and Order, the Commission 

eliminates some temporary measures for 

FY 2024 because the circumstances for 

which the measures were temporarily 

implemented have changed, i.e., the 

National Emergency COVID–19 

pandemic has ended and the national 

economy is rebounding. 

The Commission restores operation of 

the ‘‘red light’’ rule and therefore will 

not act on and will dismiss any requests 

for waiver, reduction, deferral, or for 

installment payments if the payor is in 

red light status when the request is 

filed. Further, the Commission, under 

§ 1.1166 of the rules, now requires 

parties to submit, at the time of filing, 

their financial information to support 

any request for waiver, reduction, 

deferral or installment payments. 

Finally, in recognition of the possible 

hardship to certain Space Bureau fee 

payors caused by a significant increase 

in their FY 2024 regulatory fees, the 

Commission will, for all regulatory fee 

payors’ installment payment plans, fix 

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payments for payment of FY 2024 

regulatory fee debt at the lowest rate 

permitted by statute; will not require 

parties to submit the customary down 

payment for installment payment plans. 

Non-Operating Broadcast Stations. In 

the Report and Order, we end the policy 

of presuming that dark or silent stations 

have experienced financial hardship 

and therefore merit granting a request 

for waiver of regulatory fees on the basis 

of financial hardship, without requiring 

submission of evidence of actual 

financial hardship. This policy was first 

mentioned by the Commission in 1995, 

and then applied by the Commission’s 

Office of the Managing Director in 1996. 

The Commission, however, has never 

codified this policy and it is rarely used. 

The policy, moreover, appears to 

assume that the only rationale for a dark 

or silent station is financial duress. 

There is no such limitation, however, 

contained in § 73.1740(a)(4) of the 

Commission’s rules. Licensees might go 

dark for different reasons depending on 

each station’s particular circumstances. 

Thus, drawing on the Commission’s 

experience since establishment of the 

policy in 1995, the assumption that 

requiring financial information in a 

request for waiver of regulatory fees is 

unnecessary by the operators of a dark 

or silent station appears to be no longer 

accurate in 2024. In the Report and 

Order, we therefore end the assumption 

that stations are dark or were recently 

dark or bankrupt are experiencing 

financial distress when they file a 

request for waiver of regulatory fees. 

Instead, we require that these licensees 

submit supporting financial 

documentation with their fee requests to 

prove financial hardship sufficient to 

justify a fee waiver, just as all other 

regulatory fee payors are required to do 

under § 1.1166 of our rules. In order to 

give regulatory fee payors, many of 

which are small entities, more time to 

make any necessary changes to comply 

with this change in policy, we will 

make this change effective for fiscal year 

2025. 

Report to Congress 

The Commission will send a copy of 

the Report and Order, including the 

FRFA, in a report to Congress pursuant 

to the Congressional Review Act. In 

addition, the Commission will send a 

copy of the Report and Order, including 

the FRFA, to the Chief Counsel for 

Advocacy of the SBA. A copy of the 

Report and Order, and FRFA (or 

summaries thereof) will also be 

published in the Federal Register. 

Ordering Clauses 

Accordingly, it is ordered that, 

pursuant to 47 U.S.C. 4(i), 4(j), 9, 9A, 

and 303(r) of the Communications Act 

of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 154(i), 

154(j), 159, 159A, and 303(r), the Report 

and Order is hereby adopted. 

It is further ordered that the FY 2024 

section 9 regulatory fees assessment 

requirements are adopted as specified 

herein. 

It is further ordered that the 

Commission’s Office of the Secretary 

shall send a copy of the Report and 

Order, including the Final Regulatory 

Flexibility Analysis, to the Chief 

Counsel for Advocacy of the Small 

Business Administration. 

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 1 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Communications, Reporting 

and recordkeeping requirements, 

Telecommunications, Telephone, 

Television. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Katura Jackson, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

Final Rules 

For the reasons discussed in the 

preamble, the Federal Communications 

Commission amends 47 CFR part 1 as 

follows: 

PART 1—PRACTICE AND 

PROCEDURE 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 1 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 47 U.S.C. chs. 2, 5, 9, 13; 28 

U.S.C. 2461 note; 47 U.S.C. 1754, unless 

otherwise noted. 

■ 2. Section 1.1152 is revised to read as 

follows: 

§ 1.1152 Schedule of annual regulatory 

fees for wireless radio services. 

TABLE 1 TO § 1.1152 

Exclusive use services 

(per license) Fee amount 

1. Land Mobile (Above 470 MHz and 220 MHz Local, Base Station & SMRS) (47 CFR part 90): 

(a) New, Renew/Mod (FCC 601 & 159) ....................................................................................................................................... $25.00 

(b) New, Renew/Mod (Electronic Filing) (FCC 601 & 159) ......................................................................................................... 25.00 

(c) Renewal Only (FCC 601 & 159) ............................................................................................................................................. 25.00 

(d) Renewal Only (Electronic Filing) (FCC 601 & 159) ............................................................................................................... 25.00 

220 MHz Nationwide: 

(a) New, Renew/Mod (FCC 601 & 159) ....................................................................................................................................... 25.00 

(b) New, Renew/Mod (Electronic Filing) (FCC 601 & 159) ......................................................................................................... 25.00 

(c) Renewal Only (FCC 601 & 159) ............................................................................................................................................. 25.00 

(d) Renewal Only (Electronic Filing) (FCC 601 & 159) ............................................................................................................... 25.00 

2. Microwave (47 CFR part 101) (Private): 

(a) New, Renew/Mod (FCC 601 & 159) ....................................................................................................................................... 25.00 

(b) New, Renew/Mod (Electronic Filing) (FCC 601 & 159) ......................................................................................................... 25.00 

(c) Renewal Only (FCC 601 & 159) ............................................................................................................................................. 25.00 

(d) Renewal Only (Electronic Filing) (FCC 601 & 159) ............................................................................................................... 25.00 

3. Shared Use Services— 

Land Mobile (Frequencies Below 470 MHz—except 220 MHz): 

(a) New, Renew/Mod (FCC 601 & 159) ....................................................................................................................................... 10.00 

(b) New, Renew/Mod (Electronic Filing) (FCC 601 & 159) ......................................................................................................... 10.00 

(c) Renewal Only (FCC 601 & 159) ............................................................................................................................................. 10.00 

(d) Renewal Only (Electronic Filing) (FCC 601 & 159) ............................................................................................................... 10.00 

Rural Radio (47 CFR part 22): 

(a) New, Additional Facility, Major Renew/Mod (Electronic Filing) (FCC 601 & 159) ................................................................. 10.00 

(b) Renewal, Minor Renew/Mod (Electronic Filing) ..................................................................................................................... 10.00 

4. Marine Coast: 

(a) New Renewal/Mod (FCC 601 & 159) ..................................................................................................................................... 40.00 

(b) New, Renewal/Mod (Electronic Filing) (FCC 601 & 159) ....................................................................................................... 40.00 


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TABLE 1 TO § 1.1152—Continued 

Exclusive use services 

(per license) Fee amount 

(c) Renewal Only (FCC 601 & 159) ............................................................................................................................................. 40.00 

(d) Renewal Only (Electronic Filing) (FCC 601 & 159) ............................................................................................................... 40.00 

5. Aviation Ground: 

(a) New, Renewal/Mod (FCC 601 & 159) .................................................................................................................................... 20.00 

(b) New, Renewal/Mod (Electronic Filing) (FCC 601 & 159) ....................................................................................................... 20.00 

(c) Renewal Only (FCC 601 & 159) ............................................................................................................................................. 20.00 

(d) Renewal Only (Electronic Only) (FCC 601 & 159) ................................................................................................................. 20.00 

6. Marine Ship: 

(a) New, Renewal/Mod (FCC 605 & 159) .................................................................................................................................... 15.00 

(b) New, Renewal/Mod (Electronic Filing) (FCC 605 & 159) ....................................................................................................... 15.00 

(c) Renewal Only (FCC 605 & 159) ............................................................................................................................................. 15.00 

(d) Renewal Only (Electronic Filing) (FCC 605 & 159) ............................................................................................................... 15.00 

7. Aviation Aircraft: 

(a) New, Renew/Mod (FCC 605 & 159) ....................................................................................................................................... 10.00 

(b) New, Renew/Mod (Electronic Filing) (FCC 605 & 159) ......................................................................................................... 10.00 

(c) Renewal Only (FCC 605 & 159) ............................................................................................................................................. 10.00 

(d) Renewal Only (Electronic Filing) (FCC 605 & 159) ............................................................................................................... 10.00 

8. CMRS Cellular/Mobile Services (per unit) (FCC 159) .................................................................................................................... 1 .16 

9. CMRS Messaging Services (per unit) (FCC 159) ........................................................................................................................... 2 .08 

10. Broadband Radio Service (formerly MMDS and MDS) ................................................................................................................ 725 

11. Local Multipoint Distribution Service ............................................................................................................................................. 725 

1These are standard fees that are to be paid in accordance with § 1.1157(b). 

2These are standard fees that are to be paid in accordance with § 1.1157(b). 

■ 3. Section 1.1153 is revised to read as 

follows: 

§ 1.1153 Schedule of annual regulatory 

fees and filing locations for mass media 

services. 

TABLE 1 TO § 1.1153 

Fee amount 

Radio [AM and FM] 

(47 CFR Part 73) 

1. AM Class A: 

≤10,000 population ............................................................................................................................................. $560 

10,001–25,000 population .................................................................................................................................. 935 

25,001–75,000 population .................................................................................................................................. 1,405 

75,001–150,000 population ................................................................................................................................ 2,105 

150,001–500,000 population .............................................................................................................................. 3,160 

500,001–1,200,000 population ........................................................................................................................... 4,730 

1,200,001–3,000,000 population ........................................................................................................................ 7,105 

3,000,001–6,000,000 population ........................................................................................................................ 10,650 

>6,000,000 population ........................................................................................................................................ 15,980 

2. AM Class B: 

≤10,000 population ............................................................................................................................................. 405 

10,001–25,000 population .................................................................................................................................. 675 

25,001–75,000 population .................................................................................................................................. 1,015 

75,001–150,000 population ................................................................................................................................ 1,520 

150,001–500,000 population .............................................................................................................................. 2,280 

500,001–1,200,000 population ........................................................................................................................... 3,415 

1,200,001–3,000,000 population ........................................................................................................................ 5,130 

3,000,001–6,000,000 population ........................................................................................................................ 7,690 

>6,000,000 population ........................................................................................................................................ 11,535 

3. AM Class C: 

≤10,000 population ............................................................................................................................................. 350 

10,001–25,000 population .................................................................................................................................. 585 

25,001–75,000 population .................................................................................................................................. 880 

75,001–150,000 population ................................................................................................................................ 1,315 

150,001–500,000 population .............................................................................................................................. 1,975 

500,001–1,200,000 population ........................................................................................................................... 2,960 

1,200,001–3,000,000 population ........................................................................................................................ 4,445 

3,000,001–6,000,000 population ........................................................................................................................ 6,665 

>6,000,000 population ........................................................................................................................................ 10,000 

4. AM Class D: 

≤10,000 population ............................................................................................................................................. 385 

10,001–25,000 population .................................................................................................................................. 645 

25,001–75,000 population .................................................................................................................................. 970 


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Fee amount 

75,001–150,000 population ................................................................................................................................ 1,450 

150,001–500,000 population .............................................................................................................................. 2,180 

500,001–1,200,000 population ........................................................................................................................... 3,265 

1,200,001–3,000,000 population ........................................................................................................................ 4,900 

3,000,001–6,000,000 population ........................................................................................................................ 7,345 

>6,000,000 population ........................................................................................................................................ 11,025 

5. AM Construction Permit ........................................................................................................................................ 585 

6. FM Classes A, B1 and C3: 

≤10,000 population ............................................................................................................................................. 615 

10,001–25,000 population .................................................................................................................................. 1,025 

25,001–75,000 population .................................................................................................................................. 1,540 

75,001–150,000 population ................................................................................................................................ 2,305 

150,001–500,000 population .............................................................................................................................. 3,465 

500,001–1,200,000 population ........................................................................................................................... 5,185 

1,200,001–3,000,000 population ........................................................................................................................ 7,790 

3,000,001–6,000,000 population ........................................................................................................................ 11,675 

>6,000,000 population ........................................................................................................................................ 17,515 

7. FM Classes B, C, C0, C1 and C2: 

≤10,000 population ............................................................................................................................................. 700 

10,001–25,000 population .................................................................................................................................. 1,170 

25,001–75,000 population .................................................................................................................................. 1,755 

75,001–150,000 population ................................................................................................................................ 2,635 

150,001–500,000 population .............................................................................................................................. 3,955 

500,001–1,200,000 population ........................................................................................................................... 5,920 

1,200,001–3,000,000 population ........................................................................................................................ 8,890 

3,000,001–6,000,000 population ........................................................................................................................ 13,325 

>6,000,000 population ........................................................................................................................................ 19,995 

8. FM Construction Permits ....................................................................................................................................... 1,025 

TV (47 CFR part 73) 

9. Digital TV (UHF and VHF Commercial Stations): 

1. Digital TV Construction Permits ..................................................................................................................... 5,200 

2. Television Fee Factor ..................................................................................................................................... .006598 per pop. 

10. Low Power TV, Class A TV, FM Translator, & TV/FM Booster (47 CFR part 74) ............................................. 245 

■ 4. Section 1.1154 is revised to read as 

follows: 

§ 1.1154 Schedule of annual regulatory 

charges for common carrier services. 

TABLE 1 TO § 1.1154 

Radio facilities Fee amount 

1. Microwave (Domestic Public Fixed) (Electronic Filing) (FCC Form 601 & 159) .................................................. $25.00. 

Carriers: 

1. Interstate Telephone Service Providers (per interstate and international end-user revenues (see FCC 

Form 499–A) ................................................................................................................................................... .00542. 

2. Toll Free Number Fee .................................................................................................................................... .12 per Toll Free Number. 

■ 5. Section 1.1155 is revised to read as 

follows: 

§ 1.1155 Schedule of regulatory fees for 

cable television services. 

TABLE 1 TO § 1.1155 

Fee amount 

1. Cable Television Relay Service ............................................................................................................................ $1,825 

2. Cable TV System, Including IPTV (per subscriber), and DBS (per subscriber) ................................................... 1.27 

■ 6. Section 1.1156 is revised to read as 

follows: 

§ 1.1156 Schedule of regulatory fees for 

international services. 

(a) Geostationary orbit (GSO) and 

non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) space 

stations. The following schedule applies 

for the listed services: 


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TABLE 1 TO PARAGRAPH (a) 

Fee category Fee amount 

Space Stations (Geostationary Orbit) ........................................................................................................................ $144,155 

Space Stations (Non-Geostationary Orbit)—Other ................................................................................................... 964,200 

Space Stations (Non-Geostationary Orbit)—Less Complex ..................................................................................... 441,925 

2,Space Stations (per license/call sign in non-geostationary orbit) (47 CFR part 25) (Small Satellite) ................... 12,215

Earth Stations: Transmit/Receive & Transmit only (per authorization or registration) ............................................. 2,610 

(b) International terrestrial and 

satellite Bearer Circuits. (1) Regulatory 

fees for International Bearer Circuits are 

to be paid by facilities-based common 

carriers that have active (used or leased) 

international bearer circuits as of 

December 31 of the prior year in any 

terrestrial or satellite transmission 

facility for the provision of service to an 

end user or resale carrier, which 

includes active circuits to themselves or 

to their affiliates. In addition, noncommon carrier terrestrial and satellite 

operators must pay a fee for each active 

circuit sold or leased to any customer, 

including themselves or their affiliates, 

other than an international common 

carrier authorized by the Commission to 

provide U.S. international common 

carrier services. ‘‘Active circuits’’ for 

purposes of this paragraph (b) include 

backup and redundant circuits. In 

addition, whether circuits are used 

specifically for voice or data is not 

relevant in determining that they are 

active circuits. 

(2) The fee amount, per active Gbps 

circuit will be determined for each fiscal 

year. 

TABLE 2 TO PARAGRAPH (b)(2) 

International terrestrial and satellite 

(capacity as of December 31, 2023) Fee amount 

Terrestrial Common Carrier and Non-Common Carrier ............................................................................................

Satellite Common Carrier and Non-Common Carrier ............................................................................................... $17 per Gbps circuit. 

(c) Submarine cable. Regulatory fees 

for submarine cable systems will be 

paid annually, per cable landing license, 

for all submarine cable systems 

operating based on their lit capacity as 

of December 31 of the prior year. The 

fee amount will be determined by the 

Commission for each fiscal year. 

TABLE 3 TO PARAGRAPH (c)—FY 2024 INTERNATIONAL BEARER CIRCUITS—SUBMARINE CABLE SYSTEMS

Submarine cable systems 

(lit capacity as of December 31, 2023) 

Fee ratio 

(units) 

FY 2024 

regulatory fees 

Less than 50 Gbps ............................................................................................................................................ .0625 $5,570 

50 Gbps or greater, but less than 250 Gbps .................................................................................................... .125 11,140 

250 Gbps or greater, but less than 1,500 Gbps ............................................................................................... .25 22,275 

1,500 Gbps or greater, but less than 3,500 Gbps ............................................................................................ .5 44,550 

3,500 Gbps or greater, but less than 6,500 Gbps ............................................................................................ 1.0 89,095 

6,500 Gbps or greater ....................................................................................................................................... 2.0 178,190 

[FR Doc. 2024–21159 Filed 9–24–24; 8:45 am] 

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