CBA Wants Conditions on DTV Translator Service

The Community Broadcasters Association (CBA) has asked the Federal Communications Commission to put a number of conditions on its proposed new digital television translator service. The FCC has been billing the proposal as an opportunity for TV stations to fill in coverage area gaps in their DTV signals, an issue that came to the fore after the FCC's DTV test in Wilmington (NC). But CBA, which represents low-power broadcasters, wants to make sure that helping those stations does not come at the expense of low-power broadcasters, which they say means confining applications only to full-power TV stations and only to filling in reception gaps rather than expanding their coverage areas.