The company acquiring WTVF Nashville asked FCC Media Bureau officials to confirm the...
The company acquiring WTVF Nashville asked FCC Media Bureau officials to confirm the station will remain a UHF channel if its frequency changes in a repacking to clear TV frequencies after an incentive auction. Chairman Steven Smith of Journal Communications…
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and a lawyer for Landmark Communications, which is selling WTVF, met with Chief Bill Lake and Video Division Chief Barbara Kreisman, both of the bureau. Section 6403(b)(3) of the Spectrum Act bars the agency “from involuntarily reassigning a station from a UHF to” VHF during repacking, Journal said. The act “contains no temporal limitation,” so WTVF will be treated as a UHF channel in repacking, the company continued in a filing posted Wednesday to docket 12-268 (http://xrl.us/bn27ek). The FCC originally assigned Channel 5 for the station’s DTV operations, and a 2011 order changed that to 25, the filing said. Journal had agreed to pay $215 million for the CBS affiliate (CD Sept 5 p12).