By David Oxenford on Posted in FM Radio,Incentive Auctions/Broadband Report,Low Power Television/Class A TVIn Monday’s Federal Register, publication is scheduled for the FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on reimbursing LPTV stations, TV translators and FM radio stations (both full-power and FM translator stations) for costs they incur because of the TV incentive auction and the resulting repacking of the TV spectrum. The publication in the Federal Register means… Continue Reading
By David Oxenford on Posted in Incentive Auctions/Broadband Report,Low Power Television/Class A TVLast week, the FCC issued a Public Notice announcing that it was lifting the freeze on minor changes for LPTV and TV translator stations – a freeze that had been in place while the displacement window for stations displaced by the TV incentive auction was taking place (see our articles here and here on that… Continue Reading
By David Oxenford on Posted in Incentive Auctions/Broadband Report,Low Power Television/Class A TVThe FCC yesterday released a Public Notice announcing an extension in the application filing deadline in the window for LPTV stations and TV translators that are displaced by the TV repacking following the incentive auction. In this window, displaced stations can file applications for new channels or new facilities that remove their conflicts with repacked… Continue Reading
By David Oxenford on Posted in FM Translators and LPFM,General FCC,Low Power Television/Class A TVOne of the first proposals in Chairman Pai’s initiative for the modernization of media regulation (see our post here from when the Chairman announced the initiative) was to repeal an FCC rule that many did not even know was a rule – one requiring that broadcasters who have secondary licenses maintain a paper copy of… Continue Reading
By David Oxenford on Posted in Incentive Auctions/Broadband Report,Low Power Television/Class A TV,TelevisionThe FCC on Friday issued a Public Notice announcing that LPTV stations and TV translators displaced by the Incentive auction and repacking of the TV band will have an opportunity to file for replacement channels for the ones on which they currently operate in a window that will run from April 10 through May 15. … Continue Reading
By David Oxenford on Posted in Digital Television,Low Power Television/Class A TV,Noncommercial Broadcasting,TelevisionWhen the FCC adopted its Report and Order authorizing the “next generation TV” standard ATSC 3.0, it did not resolve all issues, instead leaving a few for further public comment. Notice of the issues raised in the Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking was published in the Federal Register just before Christmas, setting February 20 as… Continue Reading
By David Oxenford on Posted in Incentive Auctions/Broadband Report,Low Power Television/Class A TV,TelevisionThe FCC yesterday issued a Public Notice announcing the immediate freeze on the filing of minor change applications for LPTV and TV translator stations. This is to stabilize the FCC’s database so that applicants in the upcoming window for the filing of displacement applications by LPTV and TV Translator stations displaced by the incentive auction… Continue Reading
By David Oxenford on Posted in Low Power Television/Class A TV,TelevisionThe FCC yesterday released a Public Notice announcing the opening of its window for full-power and Class A TV stations not repacked during the incentive auction to improve their facilities – the first opportunity to do so since the FCC froze TV minor change applications in 2013 in anticipation of the incentive auction. We wrote… Continue Reading
By David Oxenford on Posted in FCC Fines,General FCC,Low Power Television/Class A TVLast week, the FCC issued an Order and Consent Decree agreeing to end an investigation of a big operator of LPTV stations that had allegedly applied for new LPTV stations in a 2009 FCC filing window where applications were restricted to rural areas, obtained construction permits for those stations, and, through a series of minor… Continue Reading
By David Oxenford on Posted in Incentive Auctions/Broadband Report,Low Power Television/Class A TV,TelevisionFor well over four years, television stations have not been able to file applications to upgrade their technical facilities as the FCC froze such applications as it wanted to preserve a stable database of TV facilities while it conducted the Incentive Auction and implemented the repacking of the TV band. For TV stations affected by the… Continue Reading
By David Oxenford on Posted in FCC Fines,FM Translators and LPFM,General FCC,Low Power Television/Class A TVAt its meeting yesterday, as promised, the FCC adopted a notice of proposed rulemaking to eliminate the rule that certain classes of FCC licensees maintain a paper copy of the FCC rules. We wrote about the draft NPRM here, which the FCC substantially adopted. Under current rules, licensees of LPTV, TV and FM translator, and… Continue Reading
