Proclaim 17 to Debut Learning Arena on Expo Floor
An all-new Learning Arena is opening on the Exposition Floor of Proclaim 17, the National Religious Broadcasters International Christian Media Convention in Orlando, Florida. Proclaim 17 is from Feb. 27 […]
LPTV Regulatory Inequality Highlighted in Senate Hearing
Hoover Institution Research Fellow Adam J. White claimed small firms take the brunt of Washington regulators’ abuse in a testimony before the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation […]
ATBA Exec Director Says FCC Repack Notices Exhibit Minimal Effort
One of my contacts for this week’s Tech Thursday article, “Repack Problematic Despite Some Progress,” on the FCC’s Jan. 27 repack public notices was Louis Libin, a man who wears many […]
Co-Chair of Wiley Rein LLP Encourages FCC to Release Broadcasters from Prohibition Against Communication on Spectrum Auction
Co-Chair of Wiley Rein LLP Kathleen Kirby wrote a letter on Monday, Jan. 30, to the Federal Communications Commission addressing their responsibility to release broadcasters from the prohibition against communication […]
B&C Exclusive: Trump Team Embraces FCC Remake Blueprint
The incoming Donald Trump Administration is said to have signed off on an approach to remaking the Federal Communications Commission offered by the FCC transition team majority, one that squares […]
Reverse Auction Stage 4 Closes with $10 Billion
Stage 4 of the Federal Communications Commission’s Spectrum Auction ended on Friday, Jan. 13, with a new payout price of $10,054,676,822 needed to clear 84 MHz of TV spectrum space […]
ATBA to Host Television Spectrum Update Reception at NRB
On the opening day of the National Religious Broadcasters Convention, Proclaim 17, on Monday, February 27, the Advanced Television Broadcasting Alliance (ATBA) will host an evening reception for the television broadcast […]
TV Station Owner Says Pause Spectrum Auction
The FCC’s soon to be Republican majority has been asked to hit the pause button on the broadcast incentive auction and reevaluate its “anemic participation” by wireless providers. That came […]
Broadcasters Seek $10 Billion for 84 MHZ
WASHINGTON— Broadcasters asked $10 billion for 84 MHz in the fourth stage of the TV spectrum incentive reverse auction, which concluded as scheduled on Friday, Jan. 13. The 84 MHz […]
U.S. Gains 144 LPTVs in 2016
WASHINGTON—The United States gained 144 low-power TV licenses in 2016 despite the uncertain future of LPTVs, which are not assured a channel assignment in the post-incentive auction repack. According to […]