---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 80.559"
title: "47"
number: "80.559"
heading: "Licensing limitations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/80.559"
---

# §80.559. Licensing limitations.


Operational fixed stations are subject to the following licensing limitations:

- (a) A maximum of four frequencies will be assigned.
- (b) Stations will not be authorized when applications indicate less than 16 km (10 miles) separation between a proposed station and a TV transmitter operating on either Channel 4 or 5, or from the post office of a community in which either channel is assigned but not in operation.
- (c) Stations located between 16 km (10 miles) and 128 km (80 miles) of a TV transmitter operating on either Channel 4 or 5, or from the post office of a community in which either channel is assigned but not in operation, are secondary to TV operations within the Grade B service contour.

## Notes

### Amendments

[51 FR 31213, Sept. 2, 1986; 51 FR 34984, Oct. 1, 1986, as amended at 54 FR 40059, Sept. 29, 1989; 90 FR 57709, Dec. 12, 2025]

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 151-155, 301-609; 3 U.S.T. 3450, 3 U.S.T. 4726, 12 U.S.T. 2377.

### Source

Source: 51 FR 31213, Sept. 2, 1986, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[51 FR 31213, Sept. 2, 1986; 51 FR 34984, Oct. 1, 1986, as amended at 54 FR 40059, Sept. 29, 1989; 90 FR 57709, Dec. 12, 2025]