---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 73.5000"
title: "47"
number: "73.5000"
heading: "Services subject to competitive bidding."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/73.5000"
---

# §73.5000. Services subject to competitive bidding.

- (a) Mutually exclusive applications for new facilities and for major changes to existing facilities in the following broadcast services are subject to competitive bidding: AM; FM; FM translator; television; low-power television; television translator; and Class A television. Mutually exclusive applications for minor modifications of Class A television and television broadcast are also subject to competitive bidding. The general competitive bidding procedures set forth in [part 1](/cfr/47/part1.md), [subpart Q](/cfr/47/subpartQ.md) of this chapter will apply unless otherwise provided in [part 73](/cfr/47/part73.md) or [part 74](/cfr/47/part74.md) of this chapter.
- (b) Mutually exclusive applications for broadcast channels in the reserved portion of the FM band (Channels 200-220) and for television broadcast channels reserved for noncommercial educational use are not subject to competitive bidding procedures. Applications for noncommercial educational broadcast stations, as described in [47 U.S.C. 397(6)](/usc/47/397.md?p=6), on non-reserved channels also are not subject to competitive bidding procedures.

## Notes

### Amendments

[63 FR 48629, Sept. 11, 1998, as amended at 67 FR 45374, July 9, 2002; 68 FR 26228, May 15, 2003; 69 FR 72043, Dec. 10, 2004; 89 FR 7262, Feb. 1, 2024]

### Source

Source: 63 FR 48629, Sept. 11, 1998, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

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

### Amendments

[63 FR 48629, Sept. 11, 1998, as amended at 67 FR 45374, July 9, 2002; 68 FR 26228, May 15, 2003; 69 FR 72043, Dec. 10, 2004; 89 FR 7262, Feb. 1, 2024]