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 […]
Walden on LPTV: Favoring Unlicensed Would Break Law
House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-Ore.) says that if the FCC decides to set aside a channel for unlicensed use after the broadcast incentive auction and give it precedence […]
NAB Slams Auction Vote – Says it threatens success, penalizes broadcasters
The National Association of Broadcasters blasted the FCC’s incentive auction procedures vote Thursday, calling it a “major setback” for those looking for a successful auction that lowballs station prices, undercuts claims […]
ATBA Calls For Full Disclosure on Spectrum Auction
It’s Time To Disclose The Impact Austin TX – August 5, 2015 – – The Advanced Television Broadcasting Alliance (ATBA) is calling for full disclosure of the impact of the […]
GOP Reps: LPTV’s Are Not Secondary to Unlicensed
Republican Reps Greg Walden (R-Ore.) and Joe Barton (R-Tex.) have advised FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler that the FCC should not prioritize unlicensed devices over low-power TV’s or translators in the […]