#2026-272Call for Applications for Full-Time FM Radio Services in Several French Regions
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This decision opens a call for applications to operate full-time FM radio services in areas covered by the Lyon, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Marseille and Toulouse technical committees. It lists available frequencies and sets the technical conditions for using them, including transmitter location areas, coverage zones, maximum antenna height and maximum radiated power. Radio operators that want to apply must comply with the stated technical limits, including the 75 kHz frequency deviation cap and the required transmitter standard. Some frequencies may require identical programming across linked frequencies, especially where they extend an existing authorization.
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Key Changes
- Opens applications for full-time FM radio services in several French regional areas
- Sets technical conditions for available frequencies, including antenna height, coverage area and maximum radiated power
- Requires some linked frequencies to broadcast identical programming
Obligations
What this law requires
Applicants/operators using the FM frequencies listed in the annex must ensure that frequency deviation never exceeds 75 kHz.
Operators must use each assigned frequency only within the specified allotment characteristics: permitted transmitter location area, principally covered service area, maximum antenna-top altitude, and maximum apparent radiated power.
FM transmitters placed in service for the frequencies listed in the annex must comply with ETSI EN 302 018 V2.1.1.
Where a frequency is subject to programme constraints, the operator must broadcast an identical programme on each linked frequency, including advertising and local-interest programming.
Where a programme-constrained frequency is linked to an existing authorization, the new authorization operates as an extension of that existing authorization and follows the same expiry date.