The NAB should discourage members from auctioning all or some TV frequencies in...
The NAB should discourage members from auctioning all or some TV frequencies in the voluntary incentive auction the FCC will hold, said a group of low- and full-power station owners that has a different plan. The Advanced Television Broadcasting Alliance,…
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which wants the agency to instead allow stations to transmit streaming video and other broadband data to mobile devices, criticized CEA President Gary Shapiro’s comments to NAB President Gordon Smith that NAB seems to be discouraging participation (CD May 2 p12). “The CEA’s request borders on arrogance, to ask the NAB to cheerlead for an action that would lead to the diminishing of their industry and the robbing of the American public of the free airwaves,” the alliance said late Wednesday. A CEA spokesman declined to comment. Shapiro puts “the wireless carriers in front of Broadcasters,” Sinclair Vice President Mark Aitken, an alliance board member, said in a written statement. Besides that company, other members of the alliance that own full-power TV stations include Capitol Broadcasting and Pappas, an alliance spokesman said.