IATF Stepping Up Auction Education Efforts
With the window for reverse auction applications opening next week, the Incentive Auction Task Force is stepping up educational efforts, said IATF Chairman Gary Epstein and Vice Chairman Howard Symons in a blog post Thursday. An online tutorial on the…
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reverse auction is already available and will be upgraded in 2016 “to walk prospective broadcast bidders through the bidding system and post-auction procedures,” they said. An application process workshop is scheduled for Tuesday that will cover the pre-auction process, they said. “Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of FCC staff following the presentation, and staff contacts are listed in the forms and materials for any follow-up questions.” Next month, the IATF will release the file formats for reverse auction round results data, wrote Epstein and Symons. “The file formats will be of interest to broadcasters that may wish to download the results of each round for each of their participating stations, but all bidders will be able to view their own round results information on the FCC’s online auction portal during the auction.” The file formats for forward auction round results will be available before the end of the year. An interactive tutorial for the forward auction application process will be released in January, the blog said.