FCC Releases Formerly Confidential Incentive Auction Bidding Information
The FCC released formerly confidential information about incentive auction reverse auction bids that didn’t win, said a public notice Monday. The information is being released because a promised two-year deadline, dating from the April 13, 2017, close of the auction,…
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has now passed. The agency released the data only on winning bidders when the auction closed in 2017. “Today we are making available information about non-winning bids and other related data regarding bidding in the reverse auction,” the PN said. The information will be useful to non-winning broadcasters to see how close they came to getting an auction payout, said Fletcher Heald broadcast attorney Peter Tannenwald in an interview. The details also could show which broadcasters were open to unloading their stations but didn’t get the chance, BIA/Kelsey Chief Economist Mark Fratrik told us.