Class A's Want Stay of Jan. 12 Incentive Auction Application Deadline
The FCC should extend the short-form application deadline for the incentive auction to allow several Class A stations waiting for a verdict on their petitions of reconsideration to participate, said an emergency motion for stay filed by Abacus Television, WMTM…
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and The Videohouse, known collectively as movants. The FCC should “extend the deadline for Movants to file applications to participate in the reverse auction pending the Commission’s disposition of the Reconsideration Petition (and any judicial review thereof),” the motion said. The recon petition was filed against the incentive auction order on reconsideration that barred the broadcasters from participating because they hadn't met a 2012 deadline for Class A stations to be auction eligible, the motion said. Alternatively, the FCC could allow the broadcasters to file to participate pending a decision on the recon petition, the motion said.