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Spectrum Sellers Oppose Ratings Bias

TVNewCheck | by Doug Halonen

Preston Padden, head of the Expanding Opportunities for Broadcasters Coalition, says the FCC is considering language for its upcoming spectrum auction guidelines that would give lower powered Class A stations “a small percent of what a full-power station gets, and that is crazy.” He adds: “The metric should be the contribution to clearing the spectrum that the FCC wants to auction, not station ratings, nothing else.”