---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 74.601"
title: "47"
number: "74.601"
heading: "Classes of TV broadcast auxiliary stations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/74.601"
---

# §74.601. Classes of TV broadcast auxiliary stations.

- (a) **TV pickup stations.** A land mobile station used for the transmission of TV program material and related communications from scenes of events occurring at points removed from TV station studios to a TV broadcast, Class A TV or low power TV station or other purposes as authorized in [§ 74.631](/cfr/47/74.631.md).
- (b) **TV STL station (studio-transmitter link).** A fixed station used for the transmission of TV program material and related communications from the studio to the transmitter of a TV broadcast, Class A TV or low power TV station or other purposes as authorized in [§ 74.631](/cfr/47/74.631.md).
- (c) **TV relay station.** A fixed station used for transmission of TV program material and related communications for use by TV broadcast, Class A TV and low power TV stations or other purposes as authorized in [§ 74.631](/cfr/47/74.631.md).
- (d) **TV translator relay station.** A fixed station used for relaying programs and signals of TV broadcast or Class A TV stations to Class A TV, LPTV, TV translator, and to other communications facilities that the Commission may authorize or for other purposes as permitted by [§ 74.631](/cfr/47/74.631.md).
- (e) **TV broadcast licensee.** Licensees and permittees of TV broadcast, Class A TV and low power TV stations, unless specifically otherwise indicated.
- (f) **TV microwave booster station.** A fixed station in the TV broadcast auxiliary service that receives and amplifies signals of a TV pickup, TV STL, TV relay, or TV translator relay station and retransmits them on the same frequency.

## Notes

### Amendments

[65 FR 30012, May 10, 2000]

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 302a, 303, 307, 309, 310, 325, 336 and 554.

### Amendments

[65 FR 30012, May 10, 2000]