Save Our TV
ATBA launches new website to direct consumers to petition the FCC to save local TV. The website is located at http://www.SaveOurTV.com A generic TV Spot advertising the website is available […]
LPTV Group Seeks FCC Auction Data, Time
Low-power television advocate Free Access & Broadcast Telemedia is asking the FCC to re-open the record for public comments related to the broadcast incentive auction. Specifically, the group is challenging […]
LPTV Group Wants FCC to Reopen Auction Rulemaking
LPTV advocate Free Access & Broadcast Telemedia says the FCC needs to provide more information on its assumptions about the impact of the upcoming broadcast incentive auction on LPTVs and […]
ATBA Files Reply Comments on Vacant Channel Notice
The Advanced Television Broadcasting Alliance (“ATBA” hereby replies to initial comments submitted in response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking released June 16, 2015 (the “Vacant Channel Notice” or “NPRM”). […]
In spectrum auction, stations advised to take skeptical view of opening bids
Consultants are warning public TV licensees not to put too much weight on the opening bids for next year’s spectrum auction, which the FCC is expected to release as soon […]
FCC: Auction Bidders Can Reveal Their Participation
As the FCC prepares to set final opening bid prices and start accepting broadcaster applications for participating in the incentive auction, it has released its guidance on prohibited communications during […]
Sprint says will sit out of 2016 airwaves auction
Sprint Corp (S.N) will not join the U.S. government’s auction of airwaves set for early 2016, as it has adequate airwaves to currently build out its network and for its […]
How Congress can Fix the FCC
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is one of the most important regulatory agencies in the U.S. government, and perhaps in the world. With statutory authority over the nation’s communications apparatus, […]
Minority, public TV viewers face greatest threat in FCC auction
This commentary first appeared on the blog of Convergence Services, Inc. and is reprinted with the permission of the author. The news that Sesame Street is migrating from PBS to […]
Technology FCC faces Monumental Test
Officials at the Federal Communications Commission are facing a historic challenge. The agency is being asked to do something that has never before been tried: a two-step auction of American […]