THE PROPOSED WJHL-DT FACILITY SLIGHTLY EXCEEDS THE APPENDIX B FACILITY FOR WJHL-DT IN SOME DIRECTIONS AND A WAIVER OF THE FCC FILING FREEZE IS REQUESTED. WJHL-DT WILL OPERATE ON POST-TRANSITION CHANNEL 11 WHICH IS NOT ITS PRE-TRANSITION DTV CHANNEL (CH 58). IT PROPOSES TO USE A NEW DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA SYSTEM. IN ORDER TO REPLICATE THE APPENDIX B COVERAGE AREA THERE WILL BE VERY SLIGHT EXTENSIONS OF THE APPENDIX B COVERAGE FOOTPRINT IN SOME DIRECTIONS. SEE ATTACHED COVERAGE MAP (FIGURE 1). THIS IS BELIEVED TO BE ONE OF THE ANOMALIES FOR WHICH THE 5-MILE WAIVER PROCESS WAS ESTABLISHED. AS FIGURE 1 INDICATES, THERE IS NO EXTENSION OF THE APPENDIX B SERVICE AREA BY MORE THAN 5 MILES. IN ADDITION, THE 0.5% DE MINIMIS INTERFERENCE PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS ARE MET. THE RELEVANT NET SERVICE POPULATION FIGURES ARE AS FOLLOWS BASED ON AN OET-69 LONGLEY-RICE COVERAGE ANALYSIS CONSIDERING LOSSES DUE TO TERRAIN AND INTERFERENCE, USING 2000 CENSUS DATA: WJHL-DT CHANNEL 11 APPENDIX B ALLOTMENT: 1,274,501 WJHL-DT PROPOSED CHANNEL 11 POST-TRANSITION: 1,272,442 AS INDICATED ABOVE, THE PROPOSED CHANNEL 11 POST-TRANSITION OPERATION REPLICATES 99.8% OF THE APPENDIX B POPULATION. THE PROPOSED OPERATION WILL PROVIDE THE NECESSARY PROTECTION TO RADIO ASTRONOMY INSTALLATIONS AND FCC MONITORING STATIONS.