Attachment STA Request (GM-2)

This document pretains to SES-STA-20130826-00765 for Special Temporal Authority on a Satellite Earth Station filing.

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Attachment 1 STA Application File No. SES-AMD-20130718-00645 As part of a major plan to upgrade the facilities and equipment used by NBCUniversal Media, LLC (“NBCU”) in the Los Angeles area, NBCU is building a new broadcast center to replace its current Burbank facilities. The new facility is being constructed to house NBC Network and News operations, along with KNBC, NBC’s Los Angeles owned station, and KVEA, Telemundo’s Los Angeles owned station, and will include newsroom facilities, production studios and a content distribution center. To realize the maximum benefit from the new facilities, NBCU is in the process of acquiring new equipment, and NBC Telemundo License LLC (the “Licensee”) has recently filed a number of applications for new earth station authorizations. One of these applications, SES-AMD-20130718-00645, Call Sign E130111, is for a Transmit Receive Earth Station for the NBC and Telemundo Networks for which we hereby request Special Temporary Authority (“STA”) in order to perform necessary equipment testing and debugging operations while that application is pending. Our present location must be cleared of equipment before the end of 2013, necessitating that the decommissioning process of currently active equipment begin no later than November 1, 2013. On October 1, we plan to shadow our current Burbank transmission operation from the new center. To facilitate this plan, we request an effective date for the STA of September 1, 2013, which would allow a 30-day period to verify uplink performance and to make any necessary adjustments before going live from the new facility on November 1. The technical showings accompanying the pending applications demonstrate that operation of the new equipment will not cause interference to other licensed users. This equipment will play a key role in accomplishing NBCU’s objectives to more effectively serve its viewers by ensuring the timely delivery of the news, information and public affairs programming on which they rely. For these reasons, grant of the requested STA would serve the public interest.


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