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...
Read moreYou 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...
Read moreBy 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...
Read moreA petition filed late last year by America’s Public Television Stations (“APTS”) and NAB related to the deployment of ATSC 3.0 (the next generation broadcast television standard) may have struck...
Read moreAccording to a recent Public Notice (the “Notice”) issued by the Incentive Auction Task Force and Media Bureau (the “Bureau”), LPTV and TV translator stations seeking reimbursement for repack-related expenses...
Read moreThe FCC’s Incentive Auction Task Force has made an initial $17.2 million reimbursement allocation for FM stations affected by the repack—92.5% of the estimated cost reported by the 87 reimbursement-eligible...
Read moreBroadcasters who have had applications for new rural LPTV and TV translator stations (collectively “LPTV Stations”) pending for approximately a decade (!) and whose proposed stations were displaced by the...
Read moreWe write with good news for low power TV and TV translator stations seeking to submit repack reimbursement requests: earlier this week, the FCC released a Public Notice (“Notice”) in...
Read moreWe write with a reminder that the FCC will host a webinar this Wednesday, August 28, 2019, from 11 a.m. to noon ET, outlining procedures for reimbursing low power television...
Read moreThe wheels of government bureaucracy are continuing to turn (albeit slowly) when it comes to the FCC’s recently adopted rules regarding reimbursement for LPTV, TV translator, and FM broadcast stations...
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