---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 73.203"
title: "47"
number: "73.203"
heading: "Availability of channels."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/73.203"
---

# §73.203. Availability of channels.

- (a) Except as provided for in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section and [§ 1.401(d)](/cfr/47/1.401.md?p=d) of this chapter and 73.3573(a)(1), applications may be filed to construct new FM broadcast stations only at the communities and on the channels contained in the Table of Allotments ([§ 73.202(b)](/cfr/47/73.202.md?p=b)).
- (b) Applications filed on a first come, first served basis for the minor modification of an existing FM broadcast station may propose any change in channel and/or class and/or community not defined as major in [§ 73.3573(a)](/cfr/47/73.3573.md?p=a). Applications for a change in community of license must comply with the requirements set forth in [§ 73.3573(g)](/cfr/47/73.3573.md?p=g).

## Notes

### Amendments

[71 FR 76219, Dec. 20, 2006]

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 155, 301, 303, 307, 309, 310, 334, 336, 339.

### Amendments

[71 FR 76219, Dec. 20, 2006]