Bulletin Categories: LPTV

According to a recent Order and Consent Decree (the “Decree”), a Maine LPTV station and MeTV affiliate (the “Station”) will be fined $2,500, with the possibility of an increase to...

In a recent Memorandum Opinion and Order and Notice of Apparently Liability for Forfeiture (the “Order”), the FCC proposed a $9,500 fine against a displaced Missouri LPTV station (the “Station”)...

In a development of particular interest to low power television (“LPTV”) stations operating in smaller markets, at last week’s December Open Meeting the Commission unanimously adopted a Report and Order...

On March 30, 2023, the FCC initiated a proceeding to implement the recently enacted Low Power Protection Act (“LPPA”), which offers certain low power television (“LPTV”) stations a “limited window...

We’re currently only about a month away from an important date that licensees of LPTV and TV translator stations should have circled on their calendars—July 13, 2021—which is the date...

According to a recent Federal Register publication, May 24, 2021, will mark the effective date for many of the Commission’s new rules “modestly easing limitations” on transmitter deployment for distributed...

A Public Notice (the “Notice”) recently released by the FCC’s Incentive Auction Task Force and Media Bureau (the “Bureau”) provides an update on the status of the spectrum repack, as...

The Commission has adopted a Report and Order (the “Order”) “modestly easing limitations” on transmitter deployment for distributed transmission systems (“DTSs,” also known as single frequency networks, or “SFNs”) and...

You may recall that the date by which LPTV and TV translator stations must transition to digital operations—and terminate all analog television operations—is July 13, 2021.  But there’s another, earlier...

By recent Public Notice (the “Notice”), the Media Bureau issued a reminder to low power TV (“LPTV”) and TV translator stations that there is only one year remaining until the...