NAB wants the FCC to keep “as simple as possible” the design...
NAB wants the FCC to keep “as simple as possible” the design of the voluntary incentive auction of TV station frequencies and the move of broadcaster channel locations, engineering officials of the association including new spectrum executive Rick Kaplan told…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
agency officials designing the auction. Such simplicity would “minimize the enormity of the challenges evident in this complex proceeding,” recounted a filing (http://xrl.us/bn2jf3) by Kaplan, who joined NAB this fall and was previously head of the Wireless Bureau and a top aide to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski (CD Oct 5 p15). It was Kaplan’s first ex parte meeting at the commission for NAB, agency records show (http://xrl.us/bn2jf9). He and colleagues met with Gary Epstein, co-head of the agency’s spectrum task force, Office of Engineering and Technology Chief Julius Knapp and staff of the Enforcement, Media and Wireless bureaus and general counsel’s office.