NAB wants the FCC to issue an order “resolving...
NAB wants the FCC to issue an order “resolving the questions surrounding which full power and Class A broadcasters will be protected” in the incentive auction, the association told agency staff Friday, said an ex parte filing Tuesday. “The Commission…
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does not need to wait for other parts of the incentive auction process to make its determinations regarding which stations are protected and what encroachments the Commission can make, if any, on the coverage areas and populations served by TV stations that do not sell their spectrum to the government in the auction,” NAB said. “The commission should also lift the indeterminate and now three-month-old freeze on broadcast TV station modification applications.” The association asked the FCC to hold hearings on “critical auction topics” to promote transparency and “provide opportunities for Commissioners and their staffs to hear directly from industry and the public interest community in the same forum.”