The FCC designated a “single point of contact” as the auxiliary...
The FCC designated a “single point of contact” as the auxiliary broadcast frequency coordinator for three political events, said a Media and Wireless bureaus public notice Friday (http://xrl.us/bnda95). Chairman Louis Libin of the Frequency Coordinating Committee for the 2012 Political…
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Conventions is the contact for this year’s Democratic and Republican national conventions and for the 2013 presidential inauguration. Broadcast auxiliary service stations licensed under Part 74 of the FCC rules let radio and TV stations send programming between each other or for other reasons before it’s broadcast. “Political conventions and inaugurations attract extensive broadcast coverage, and consequently require extensive use of wireless equipment,” the notice said: “Broadcast networks and other major content distributors require major wireless communications infrastructures, along with spectrum,” though there’s “no one broadcaster who holds rights to control spectrum” in such situations. The broadcast-network committee Libin heads had asked the commission to name Libin special frequency coordinator and RF spectrum manager for the three events, which the bureaus approved along with a distance separation waiver. The designation allows for coordination around the time of the events within a 100 kilometer radius of the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Fla., for the Republican gathering, and Time Warner Cable Arena and Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C., for the Democrats, and for the inauguration at the White House and U.S. Capitol.