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The FCC Media and Public Safety bureaus seek comment on an application and waiver request from WLNY Riverhead, New York, to “flashcut” its low-power TV station WLIG Plainview, also in New York, from analog Channel 17 to digital Channel 17.…

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WLNY would like a waiver for land mobile station protection insofar as the FCC rule on land mobile assignments applies to the Channel 16 land mobile services in New York City, the bureaus said in a public notice posted Wednesday (http://bit.ly/1ocdw0y). The rule says an LPTV station or translator application won’t be accepted if it specifies a channel that is one channel above or below one of the land mobile assignments “and its field strength at the land mobile protected contour exceeds 76 dBu,” they said. WLIG is located within the land mobile protected contour, they said. The bureaus seek comment on the impact of the request on the land mobile service on adjacent Channel 16 in the New York metropolitan area, the bureaus said, with comments due Aug. 15, replies Aug. 29.