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Auction Notice Makes It To Federal Register
Just two weeks after its release by the FCC, the sprawling Public Notice setting out the details of how the Broadcast Incentive Auction is …
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FCC Sets Nov. 17 Reverse Auction Workshop
Further evidence that the FCC's spectrum auction is ramping up, and fast: the commission has announced that it will be conducting a …
Budget: Find Federal Spectrum To Auction
Buried within the mammoth budget deal that the White House and the Republican-led House have agreed to are provisions that would require the …
Legere Sees ‘Dark Horse’ Bidders In Auction
T-Mobile US CEO John Legere said he expects "dark horse" companies like Google, Comcast and Charter Communications to bid in next year's …
Roberts: NBC Likely To Participate In Auction
NBC stations are “likely to participate” in the FCC’s spectrum auction — taking spectrum now used by TV stations and …
Wheeler Predicts Successful Incentive Auction
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler suggested that wireless carriers that are being coy about how much they will participate in next year's incentive …
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University Considers Selling WHUT Spectrum
The FCC set the opening bid for the Howard University-owned noncommercial station in Washington's spectrum at $461 million, though prices …
FCC Sets Opening Auction Bids For Stations
It values WCBS New York at the top of its list at $900 million. ABC’s WLS is the most valuable station in Chicago at $632 million. And …
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FCC Details Spectrum Auction Procedures
The FCC on Thursday released nearly 300 pages of application procedures to be used for TV stations wishing to participate in the spectrum …
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USF Putting WUSF’s Spectrum On The Block
Stations Should Be Wary Of Spectrum Bids
Consultants are warning public TV licensees not to put too much weight on the opening bids for next year’s spectrum auction, which the …
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FCC Clarifies Auction Quiet Period Details
The FCC has explained the restrictions that apply during the incentive auction on communications by and between broadcasters (and wireless …
House Bill Looks To Set Auction Framework
A draft of the “Spectrum Pipeline Act of 2015″ is currently circulating the House Communications Subcommittee in hopes of …
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Padden Shutting Down Spectrum Coalition
Expanding Opportunities for Broadcasters Coalition founder Preston Padden says the organization has accomplished its key goals and will …
NAB Asks For Clarity On Auction
The trade group tell the FCC: “To avoid unnecessary confusion … and to reassure broadcasters that the commission intends to …
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Minority, PTV Viewers Threatened By Auction
Audience data indicate that two segments of the U.S. population will be hit especially hard by the upcoming FCC auction selling off …
With Auction, FCC Faces Monumental Test
The agency is being asked to do something that has never before been tried: a two-step auction of American airwaves that is intended to …
FCC OKs Auction Plans In 3-2 Vote
The FCC ceded no ground to anyone with its party-line vote today on incentive auction procedures, the agency’s detailed blueprint for …
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CBS, Fox Say Selling Spectrum An Option
CBS Corp.'s Leslie Moonves and 21st Century Fox's James Murdoch say they want to take a closer look at what the government might offer in …
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FCC Suspends LPTV, Translator Deadlines
Late Friday, the FCC released a Public Notice stating that "[e]ffective immediately, the expiration dates and construction deadlines for all …
GAO Asked To Study Auction Impact On LPTV
Reps. Joe Barton and Anna Eshoo especially want to know how many LPTVs and translators — which don’t have the same protections …
LPTV Bill Meets Strong Headwinds In House
The future of the LPTV and Translator Preservation Act doesn't look so bright after a leading House Democrat said it "would add unnecessary …
CPB Urges FCC To Preserve PTV In Auction
CPB’s Board of Directors unanimously approved a resolution Thursday urging the FCC to avoid allowing “white areas” …
Jessell at Large
Wheeler’s Diversity Claim Is A Fantasy
The FCC chairman's contention that eliminating joint sales agreements will open up new opportunities for minority and women to become TV …
Gray, Sinclair: Innovation Trumps Repack $
Gray Television and Sinclair Broadcast Group are willing to give up channel repacking funds following the spectrum auction if that means it …
Spectrum Auction
FCC Seeks Comments On Repack Costs
The FCC wants to hear from broadcasters on how much they should be reimbursed for changing channels after a spectrum auction and channel …
Spectrum Auction
Senators Inquire About Border Coordination
A group of 19 Senators from both sides of the aisle want more information from the FCC about how the pending spectrum auction will deal with …
LPTV Coalition Threatens FCC With Lawsuit
The LPTV Spectrum Rights Coalition says the commission needs to generate more data on how the upcoming spectrum auction and band repacking …
Agriculture Community Pulling For LPTVs
Eight agriculture and conservation organizations tell the FCC that their members “rely heavily on broadcast television for local …
10 Reasons An Auction Will End Broadcasting
Paul Broyles, president of the International Broadcasting Network, says the pending spectrum auction and subsequent channel repack will lead …
Lake: FCC Won’t Delay Auction For ATSC 3.0
Bill Lake, the FCC’s Media Bureau Chief, told the standards group that ATSC 3.0 — the next-generation and non-backwards …
Shapiro Chides Smith Over Auction Remarks
CEA President Gary Shapiro says NAB CEO Gordon Smith should refrain from his public statements about the FCC's proposed spectrum auction, …
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Here’s What’s Next For The Spectrum Auction
Washington communications attorney John Hane walks us through how the just-authorized broadcast TV spectrum auction may play out. He …
Jessell at Large
Fox Knows What Genachowski Should
That’s the value and power of over-the-air television broadcasting. The Fox plan to invest millions of dollars into the launch of …
Spectrum Auction Bill Advances In House
A Republican-backed payroll tax and jobs bill with TV spectrum auction language attached won House passage last night. But many hurdles …
NAB, CTIA Jointly Oppose Spectrum Fees
The two groups are joined by three others in a letter to the congressional Super Committee charged with reducing the federal deficit, asking …
Budget Panel Seeks More Gov’t Spectrum
Members of Congress' deficit reducing Super Committee tell Obama that he needs to find more government spectrum that can be auction to …
NAB Spectrum Letter Creates Backlash
Groups backing efforts to give the FCC authority to auction TV spectrum to wireless broadband operators lashed out at the NAB for suggesting …
NAB’s Smith Keeps Up Defense Of Spectrum
NAB President Gordon Smith says the FCC's TV spectrum grab could be “catastrophic” for the industry and could mean the …
Analysts: What Spectrum Shortage?
A study by Jason Bazinet and Michael Rollins of Citi Investment Research & Analysis seems to undermine FCC's claim that reallocating …
Jessell at Large
A Plan For Spectrum Peace In Our Time
The fight between the NAB and the FCC over spectrum auctions is ugly. The two groups should be working together for the common good — …
Jessell At Large
Delay On Spectrum Models Raises Suspicion
This is getting ridiculous. The FCC was supposed to make public its technical models for its proposed spectrum reallocation that would make …
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In Spectrum Battles, Mom & Pop TV Loses
The FCC has been pushing for a while to get some 120 MHz of spectrum from the TV broadcasters and it sell it to the highest bidder. The NAB …
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TV Escapes Spectrum Auction In Debt Deal
The congressional agreement to raise the debt ceiling did not contain language proposed by Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that …
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Debt Fight Could Bring Spectrum Auctions
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's current debt ceiling plan would direct the FCC to auction off highly valuable television spectrum to …
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NAB Runs Full Court Press On Auction Action
Sen. Harry Reid’s debt reduction proposal would permit the FCC to conduct incentive auctions of TV spectrum and share the …
NAB’s Smith: Spectrum Bill Good, But …
NAB President Gordon Smith gave his blessing to the House incentive auction bill, but said he'd prefer stronger language that would require …
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Just How Voluntary Is Senate Spectrum Bill?
The Senate bill authorizing FCC TV spectrum auctions is raising red flags after an amendment was added that makes it unclear that such …
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Congress May Fast-Track Spectrum Auctions
It’s looking increasingly likely that Congress may authorize the FCC to hold incentive auctions as soon as this summer as part of …