House Communications Subcommittee ranking member Anna Eshoo, D-Calif.,...
House Communications Subcommittee ranking member Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., and Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, jointly asked the GAO Wednesday to do a study on how the FCC’s broadcast TV incentive auction may affect low-power TV (LPTV) broadcasters and translators and their…
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served communities, (http://1.usa.gov/1mR9L1V). Eshoo and Barton want to know the number of low-power stations that offer original programming or show local news and information, “especially those serving racial and ethnic minority communities”; “a projection of the number of such LPTV stations and TV translator stations that will be unable to locate to or operate on replacement channels after the auction”; and “a projection of the number of viewers that will lose over-the-air access to at least one such local LPTV station that provide[s] local news and information, especially to underserved communities of interest,” a Barton news release said. They asked for recommendations from GAO on the FCC and Congress “on ways to remedy adverse impacts ... .” Barton has circulated a draft bill that would protect such low-power entities, which Eshoo had voiced concerns about in a legislative hearing in late July.