Federal Communications Commission	"FCC/DA  XX-XXX"


DA 22-492
Released:  May 5, 2022

COMMENT AND REPLY COMMENT DATES SET
FOR RECENT FILINGS CONCERNING USE OF FM BOOSTERS FOR GEO-TARGETED CONTENT
MB Docket No. 20-401
MB Docket No. 17-105
RM-11854

Comment Date:  June 6, 2022
Reply Comment Date:  June 21, 2022

On April 18, 2022, the Media Bureau released a Public Notice Media Bureau Seeks Comment on Recent Filings Concerning Use of FM Boosters for Geo-Targeted Content, MB Dkt. Nos. 20-401, 17-105, Public Notice, DA 22-429 (Public Notice).
 seeking public comment on recently filed technical information and other documents submitted after the March 12, 2021, close of the comment period in this proceeding, which concerns the proposed limited use of FM booster stations to allow for geo-targeted content. Amendment of Section 74.1231(i) of the Commission’s Rules on FM Broadcast Booster Stations, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 35 FCC Rcd 14213 (2020) (NPRM) (Geo-targeted content is that which can be heard only within that portion of an FM station’s total service area covered by the signal of a co-channel FM booster station.); Comment and Reply Comment Dates Set For FM Broadcast Booster Stations NPRM, Public Notice, 36 FCC Rcd 30 (2021).  
  The Public Notice set deadlines for filing comments and reply comments at 30 and 45 days, respectively, after publication of the Public Notice in the Federal Register.

	By this Public Notice, the Media Bureau announces that the Public Notice was published in the Federal Register on May 5, 2022. Media Bureau Seeks Comment on Recent Filings Concerning Use of FM Boosters for Geo-Targeted Content, 87 Fed. Reg. 26758 (May 5, 2022).	
  Comments must be submitted no later than June 6, 2022.  Reply comments must be submitted no later than June 21, 2022.  Interested parties may file comments and reply comments by the dates listed above using ECFS or by submitting paper copies to the Commission’s Office of the Secretary. Commenters should follow the filing instructions provided in paragraph 36 of the NPRM.
  

For additional information, contact Albert Shuldiner, Albert.Shuldiner@fcc.gov or James Bradshaw, James.Bradshaw@fcc.gov of the Media Bureau, Audio Division, (202) 418-2700.  Press inquiries should be directed to Janice Wise, (202) 418-8165.

By the Chief, Media Bureau 
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