The Expanding Opportunities for Broadcasters Coalition asked the...
The Expanding Opportunities for Broadcasters Coalition asked the FCC not to consider stations’ audience size or “enterprise value” when setting prices for spectrum, said a letter to the Wireless Bureau released by the EOBC Monday. “Stations participating in the auction…
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are selling spectrum to be reallocated for wireless,” wrote EOBC Executive Director Preston Padden. “They are NOT selling broadcasting businesses.” Representatives of the EOBC met with bureau staff on April 4 to discuss how spectrum prices will be set, and came away unsure what the bureau’s plans were, it said. “The Coalition urges the Commission to clarify, at the earliest opportunity, that it will not weigh or ’score’ a station on any basis other than its preclusive effect on repacking other stations,” said Padden. He said the commission’s consideration of other factors is “driving away from the auction the very stations most likely to otherwise consider surrendering their spectrum.”