Broadcast Services; Radio Stations, Television Stations

This document resolves a number of issues concerning the transition to digital broadcast television (DTV). Among the issues resolved in the Report and Order are: when to require election by licensees of their post-transition DTV channel; whether to require replication by DTV licensees of their NTSC Grade B service contours; whether to require enhanced service to the principal community served by DTV licensees; and how we should process mutually exclusive applications. We also address in this document a host of technical issues and determine that at this time there is no persuasive information to indicate that there is any deficiency in the 8-VSB modulation system of the DTV transmission standard that would cause us to revisit our decision to deny Sinclair Broadcasting Group, Inc.'s, petition and to add COFDM to the current 8-VSB DTV standard or to grant Univision Communications Inc.'s Petition for Expedited Rule Making to that same effect. We also decline to adopt technical performance standards for DTV receivers.