Attachment STA Request SES-STA-20110823-00996

Attachment STA Request

This document pretains to SES-STA-20110823-00996 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

IBFS_SESSTA2011082300996_913608

$STA REQUEST Clear Channel Satellite Services (“Clear Channel”) hereby requests special temporary authority (“STA”) for a period of 60 days to continue to operate a C-band earth station previously licensed under call sign E010074. Clear Channel recently discovered that the license expired in May without a timely renewal application having been filed. Clear Channel is preparing an application for a new license to replace the expired authorization and requests STA pending submission of and Commission action on the new license application. Grant of the requested STA will serve the public interest by permitting Clear Channel to continue to provide its customers with a broad range of important telecommunications services, including services that support emergency alert notifications and distribution of news and other programming to thousands of radio stations nationwide. Under call sign E010074, Clear Channel was authorized to operate two C-band antennas located in Englewood, Colorado.1 During a recent internal review, Clear Channel discovered that the E010074 license had expired May 7, 2011, and that no renewal application for the license had been filed. Upon becoming aware of this oversight, Clear Channel took immediate steps to rectify the situation by contacting its FCC counsel, consulting with the FCC staff, and beginning work to prepare and file a new application for licensing of the C-band earth station, including obtaining the required coordination report. Clear Channel seeks STA pending action on the new license application in order to authorize Clear Channel to provide service continuity to customers that rely on this C-band facility. This earth station is used as part of the Clear Channel network of satellite facilities that distributes programming to more than two thousand radio stations around the country. This programming includes weather reports and news regarding significant local, regional, and national developments. In addition, the facility supports an Emergency Alert System covering parts of the central U.S. Grant of the requested authority will not adversely affect any other party. Clear Channel will continue to comply with the terms of its prior license, which was fully coordinated with other authorized users. For the foregoing reasons, Clear Channel respectfully requests special temporary authority pending the filing of and Commission action on the application for a replacement license for this earth station facility. 1 See Call Sign E010074, File No. SES-MOD-20060420-00694 (granted July 11, 2006). \\\DC - 037485/000001 - 3290803 v1$

Document Created: 2011-08-23 15:01:02
Document Modified: 2011-08-23 15:01:02