---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 27.1216"
title: "47"
number: "27.1216"
heading: "Grandfathered E and F group EBS licenses."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/27.1216"
---

# §27.1216. Grandfathered E and F group EBS licenses.

- (a) Except as noted in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section, grandfathered EBS licensees authorized to operate E and F group co-channel licenses are granted a geographic service area (GSA) on July 19, 2006. The GSA is the area bounded by a circle having a 35 mile radius and centered at the station's reference coordinates, and is bounded by the chord(s) drawn between intersection points of that circle and those of respective adjacent market, co-channel licensees.
- (b) [Reserved]

## Notes

### Amendments

[71 FR 35191, June 16, 2006, as amended at 90 FR 57706, Dec. 12, 2025]

### Source

Source: 69 FR 72034, Dec. 10, 2004, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 301, 302a, 303, 307, 309, 332, 336, 337, 1403, 1404, 1451, and 1452, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 62 FR 9658, Mar. 3, 1997, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[71 FR 35191, June 16, 2006, as amended at 90 FR 57706, Dec. 12, 2025]