PUBLIC NOTICE
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th St., S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20554
News Media Information 202 / 418-0500
Internet: http://www.fcc.gov
TTY: 1-888-835-5322
 DA 09-760
Released: April 3, 2009
COMMISSION GRANTS MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE DTV MAXIMIZATION 
APPLICATIONS SUBJECT TO THE CONDITION THAT APPLICANTS RESOLVE 
THEIR MUTUAL EXCLUSIVITY WITHIN 30 DAYS
By Public Notice released May 30, 2008, the Commission lifted the freeze on the filing of DTV 
maximization applications by full power television stations.1 All applications filed from the date of 
release of the Public Notice through June 20, 2008, as well as applications filed prior to release of the 
Public Notice which requested a waiver of the filing freeze, were treated for cut-off purposes as being 
filed on June 20, 2008.  
Current DTV processing rules provide mutually exclusive applicants a 90-day period of time to resolve 
their mutual exclusivity via an engineering amendment or settlement; applications that remain mutually 
exclusive at the end of this period are to be dismissed. 2 Because the public interest would be served by 
facilitating completion of maximization facilities whenever possible before the end of the statutory DTV 
transition deadline, the Commission also announced in the Public Notice that, with respect to applications 
filed between the release of the Public Notice and the end of the DTV transition deadline, it intended to 
grant mutually exclusive applications subject to the condition that the applicants resolve their mutual 
exclusivity within 30 days of grant of the applications.3 Construction permits that remained in conflict 
with another construction permit at the end of this period would be cancelled and the stations required to 
file new applications.
By this Public Notice, the Media Bureau grants the groups of mutually exclusive applications listed in 
Attachment A, subject to the condition that each station resolve its mutual exclusivity within 30 days of 
the date of this public notice.  Stations may resolve their mutual exclusivity with other stations in their 
group by means of engineering amendments or by interference consent agreements.  Technical 
amendments submitted by stations must be minor, as defined by applicable rules, and must not create new 
mutual exclusivity or application conflict.  Stations must submit their engineering proposals and/or 
interference consent agreements on FCC Forms 301 and 340, using the Commission’s Consolidated 
Database System (“CDBS”) Electronic Filing system via the Internet from the Media Bureau’s Web site 
at:  http://www.fcc.gov/mb/cdbs.html or http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbs_ef.htm.   The 
Commission will cancel the maximized facility construction permits of stations which fail to resolve their 
mutual exclusivities within 30 days.
  
1 Commission Lifts the Freeze on the Filing of Maximization Applications and Petitions for Digital Channel 
Substitutions, Effective Immediately, 23 FCC Rcd 8330 (MB 2008)(“Freeze Public Notice”).
2 47 C.F.R. § 73.623(h)(3).
3 Freeze Public Notice, 23 FCC Rcd at 8332.  
For further information, contact the Media Bureau’s Video Division: Kevin Harding, 
Kevin.harding@fcc.gov at (202) 418-7077 or Hossein Hashemzadeh, hossein.hashemzadeh@fcc.gov at 
(202) 418-1658.  TTY:  (202) 418-7171.
Attachment A
GROUP #1
WCTE-DT 
BMPEDT-20080620ADW
Cookeville, TN
WPXK-DT
BPCDT-20080620AGZ
Jellico, TN
GROUP #2
 KLTV-DT  
BMPCDT-20080619AAU     
 Tyler, TX
 WFAA-DT
BMPCDT-20080617ADW
Dallas, TX
GROUP #3
KCCO-DT 
BMPCDT-20080619AAV 
Alexandria, MN
KJRR-DT
BMPCDT-20080619ADZ
Jamestown, ND
GROUP #4
 KLTL-DT 
BPEDT-20080619AGE 
Lake Charles, LA
 
 KFDM-DT
BPCDT- 20080618AAY
Beaumont, TX