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A Pair Can Channel Share, but Better Still Beware
Commission tunes up its channel-sharing rules in advance of the incentive auction, with more to come. As the incentive auction approaches – now supposedly less than a year away – the FCC continues to...
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FCC Announces Upcoming Webinar on TV Channel Sharing
On the agenda: Everything, um, A lot of things, er, Several things, Stuff you always wanted to know about channel sharing but were afraid to ask If your station happens to be on the FCC’s Eligibility...
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Update: Comment Dates Set for Channel Sharing Proposals
Last month we reported on the Commission’s efforts to fine-tune its rules relative to TV channel-sharing in advance of the fast-approaching spectrum auction. Those efforts included (in the Notice of...
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Calendar Change: TV Channel Sharing Webinar Postponed
If you have planned your summer vacation plans around the FCC’s TV Channel Sharing Webinar that was originally scheduled for July 22, we hope you can get your deposit money back. But cheer up – now...
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Wireless Mics: The Lay of the Post-Incentive Auction Land Takes Shape
Wireless mic users must prepare to dance a spectrum hokey-pokey to adjust to spectrum reductions, new operating rules The Pope will visit the U.S. in late September, which is already prompting...
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Upcoming Webinar: Davina Sashkin Explains what Wireless Bidders can Look...
On the agenda: What we know so far about the planned auction of the 600 MHz band, and what wireless carriers and other bidders interested in getting a piece of this beachfront can expect when it gets...
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Broadcast Incentive Auction Update: FCC Modifies Rules and Policies Governing...
Commission accepts back-up CSAs – with some caveats – and extends time to complete transition to shared facilities. In a further effort to encourage broadcaster participation in the reverse portion of...
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The Broadcast Incentive Auction: An Overview of the Process
Deadlines, opening bids, other procedures are now set. The FCC’s preparations for the long-in-the-works Broadcast Incentive Auction have taken the final turn and are now barreling down the stretch....
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Update: Reverse Auction Workshop Set for November 17
Further evidence that the Broadcasting Incentive Auction is ramping up, and fast: the Commission has announced that it will be conducting a three-hour workshop devoted to the reverse auction process on...
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Update: Incentive Auction Procedures Public Notice Makes It to the Federal...
Just two weeks after its release by the Commission, the sprawling Public Notice setting out the details of how the Broadcast Incentive Auction is to be conducted has been published in the Federal...
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Update: Second Order on Recon in Channel Sharing Proceeding Makes it Into the...
But what happened to the First Order on Recon? its break-neck pace with respect to all things Broadcast Incentive Auction, the Commission has published its most recent order on channel sharing in the...
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Et Voilà – The New Form 177!!
As we reported last Friday (i.e., October 30), the FCC has asked the Office of Management and Budget to approve new Form 177, the form that broadcasters intending to participate in the reverse auction...
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Update: First Recon Order re Channel Sharing Appears in the Federal Register
As we reported yesterday, the Commission’s late-October “Second Order on Reconsideration” with respect to its channel sharing rules was published in the Federal Register on November 2, even though its...
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Incentive Auction Update: Form 177 Filing Window for Reverse Auction...
Changes in baseline coverage data for several stations leads to scheduling changes for all. If you’re a TV licensee planning to participate in the upcoming reverse auction component of the Broadcast...
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Incentive Auction Update: Debut of Reverse Auction Tutorial Set; Reverse...
If you have any thoughts about participating in the reverse auction, check this out: the Commission has announced that its on-line tutorial on the pre-auction process will be up and running on November...
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Update: Effective Date Set for New Wireless Mic Rules
Back in August we reported on a Report and Order (R&O) adopting a range of new rules governing wireless microphones, rules aimed at accommodating wireless mic use both during and after the upcoming...
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Reverse Auction Homework: Getting Familiar with Form 177
The FCC is trying to make good on its promise to let auction participants know what’s in store for them on the auction application front (and the reimbursement front, too – but that’s for a later...
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Incentive Auction Homework – Long-term Assignment: How to Reap Repack Repayment
The Broadcast Incentive Auction reimbursement process begins to take shape. We have reported on the FCC’s efforts to alert all would-be reverse auction participants to the ins and outs of Form 177. A...
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Update: Form and Policies Described in Relocation Reimbursement Notice Now In...
Federal Register publication starts clock on petitions for reconsideration, applications for review; Final version of form, listing of dollar values still in the works Last week we reported on the...
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Reverse Auction Update: Form 177 Is Now Officially Effective!
Making things official, the FCC has announced that the Office of Management and Budget formally approved FCC Form 177 on November 19. And with the publication of that announcement in the Federal...
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