The FCC should hold a forum on low-power TV and...
The FCC should hold a forum on low-power TV and the spectrum auction, said the LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition in an ex parte filing addressed to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Tuesday (http://bit.ly/1aRHTUD). The coalition wants the session to be part…
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of the commission’s series of LEARN (Learn Everything About Reverse Auctions Now) events intended to prepare the industry for the incentive auction. “All we want before the rule making is made is for our part of the broadcast industry to be able to share in an open forum how the auction process will affect us, both good and bad,” said coalition Director Mike Gravino. LPTV stations are 74 percent of all FCC broadcast TV licenses, and will be the “most affected party in the auction process” because of a “collective $1 billion unfunded mandate to move channels,” said Gravino. He said previous requests for an LPTV LEARN session had not been acted on by the Incentive Auction Task Force and then-acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn. “This is not about LPTV being able to be auction eligible,” said the filing. “Although if we were, we would provide substantial competition in the forward auction, and help to lower the price the government has to pay for the spectrum."