How would a translator work if the primary LPFM or NCE station is a time share?

While there are a small number of full-service NCE stations in the nation that are time sharing, a significant number of time sharing stations are LPFM.  

The issue of a translator for a time share station is not currently addressed in the rules and we are not aware of any past precedence around it. 

REC has communicated this concern with Staff.  Staff may issue future guidance, even if it just a footnote.  

Until we get some kind of formal advice on this, we will stay on the side of caution with this advice and make some assumptions for now:

• Since a translator is related to a facility ID, there is no way to associate a translator to more than one facility ID.
• If a translator is related to a time share facility, the translator will need to go off the air completely.  Just because a station is time share does not justify (under the rules) that the station can originate its own programming on the translator during hours that the primary station is not broadcasting (even if two time share partners share the same transmitter).
• The only type of translator that can originate programming when their primary station is off the air is where the primary station is a Class D AM station that does not operate at night.