NBC TV affiliates met with FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel Tuesday to discuss the...
NBC TV affiliates met with FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel Tuesday to discuss the incentive auction, retransmission consent and media ownership rules. “It is essential that there be a transparent process for accomplishing a spectrum auction and repacking, and the FCC…
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needs to engage with broadcast engineers,” to make sure that TV service is preserved for viewers, an ex parte filing said (http://xrl.us/bnv2p3). “Concern was expressed that if the FCC conducts the reverse auction and the forward auction simultaneously, there will be no safety net available in the event that the predictive engineering models have miscalculated the amount of spectrum” needed to accomplish the repacking, it said. Discussing retrans, the executives said the rules are working as Congress intended. “Altering the retransmission consent or good faith negotiation rules to benefit pay TV operators would undermine the vitality of the public’s local broadcast service and harm consumers who benefit from the unique services that broadcasters provide,” the notice said. Hearst Television Executive Vice President Jordan Wertlieb, chairman of the NBC affiliates’ association, Vice Chairman Ralph Oakley, CEO of Quincy Newspapers and Senior Vice President Brian Lawlor of E.W. Scripps, a past chairman of the group, also pushed the commission to bring its media ownership rules more up to date.