Perceptions about how stations will be scored in...
Perceptions about how stations will be scored in the spectrum incentive auction are keeping them from committing to participate, the Expanding Opportunities for Broadcasters Coalition told agency staff, according to an ex-parte (http://bit.ly/16crSGb) filing Monday. The commission has offered no…
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“objective basis” for deciding the price stations will receive for their spectrum, said EOBC Executive Director Preston Padden. “Many broadcasters continue to perceive the specter of scoring based on some arbitrary factors as a real possibility, and this is driving stations away from the auction.” Padden also spoke against a proposed requirement for stations planning to channel share to “place a city grade signal over their community of license” which he said unnecessarily restricts the stations that would be able to share. Padden said the FCC “should be encouraging stations to surrender their channels and channel share, not erecting barriers to this potentially attractive mechanism for participation.”